Opinion – Page 561
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Why bother?
In response to your recent editorial about encouraging young women into the construction industry I must ask, why?
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… On a more optimistic note
Getting role models in the industry to talk directly to young men and women is an effective way of changing attitudes, as suggested by Victoria Caesar (Letters, 12 November, page 36).
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Learning curve
Two brief points in connection with your article on my “re-education” (12 November, page 44).
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Apprenticeships are thriving
May I congratulate your magazine for focusing on, over the past few issues, the immensely important topic of vocational training.
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A tricky treaty
Greg Trickey misunderstands the European Union constitution (12 November, page 37), the legal threat of which will be no greater to the UK’s “royal” chartered bodies than to the Crown Prosecution Service, the Royal Mail or indeed the royal family itself.
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Target practice
In the article “Fatality rate overshadows HSE’s healthy living plan” (15 November, page 17), some confusion crept in, which resulted in the views I expressed being misrepresented.
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CommentOpen mike: It ain’t rocket science
There’s a pretty obvious way to avoid escalating M&E costs, points out consultant Chris Haley – and it’s not by ignoring the problem and hoping it’ll go away, you idiots
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CommentThe path ahead
Having been involved in the construction industry in various capacities since 1965, I find it hard to recall a time when there have been greater opportunities for the sector.
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CommentMeeting Mr Kurtz
The chilling tale of a man’s journey in the dark heart of the construction industry … which, if you ever need to find it, is located in Hounslow
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CommentOpen mike: The QS’s apprentice
The increasing amount of debt carried by today’s graduates creates an opportunity to reshape the early relationship between employer and employee …
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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Who can you trust?
lients ought to realise that lawyers and expert have their own reasons for attacking or defending a procurement route. No advice is completely objective
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CommentWhen can you be unfair?
djudicators who ignore the rules of natural justice in their conduct may not fall foul of the courts, but they should be given a damn good thrashing anyway
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Further to Mr Bingham …
nd talking of Amec vs Whitefriars, here’s some other aspects of the case that Tony Bingham didn’t cover – such as the ‘bullying’ of the adjudicator
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What happens at the end
ave you read your contract thoroughly? Right to the end? If you did, and you spotted the hidden ‘entire agreement clause’, give yourself two Scoobie snacks
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Wonders & blunders
Two London residences make up Michael Winner’s choices – one of which he liked so much that he bought it himself
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Don’t forget to check
The defendant building contractor secured a contract to carry out works of improvement to a sewage treatment works owned and operated by the claimant water company that treated wastewater. The claimant’s engagement of the defendant was under the terms of a design and build contract which incorporated a specification that ...
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