Opinion – Page 563
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Garbage in, garbage out
Being armed to the teeth with a fancy computer program is all very well but, as a recent case illustrates, what matters is the quality of the data fed into it
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Calling all megalomaniacs
In your article “The greatest buildings never built” (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller’s New York dome as a “megalomaniac plan”.
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Unite behind unitisation
Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).
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Thatcher’s child
I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).
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Beyond Kyoto
Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.
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Our lives in your hands
Designers seem to ignore their responsibilities under CDM regulations, in that they should be designing out risk wherever possible.
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A taste of union medicine
I was interested to read in your above article (22 October, page 10) that the TUC is stepping up pressure on the government to press ahead with its manifesto commitment to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation.
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Piling on the agony
I read your piling special (15 October 2004, page 64) and found it lacking in up-to-date information in key areas.
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CommentLet’s talk about sex
In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Historian Francesco da Mosto picks two faces of La Serenissima: one a stunning fusion of styles and the other a tasteless cake
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The X factor
Every year we have the delightful task of sifting through hundreds of marvellous submissions all vying for one of the categories in the BDA Brick Awards.
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Who’s in control?
The defendant contractor secured a contract to decorate the exterior of a building. The claimant was a painter and decorator in partnership with his father and they were instructed by the defendant to carry out the work. The work required the use of scaffolding, but no ladder was provided by ...
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CommentWhat goes around …
Here’s a warning to all those clients, and their lawyers, who want to make the granting of extensions conditional on a contractor giving notice about the effects of delay
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CommentNothing comes of nothing
Contractors are forever complaining about disruption on the job, but without hard evidence an adjudicator will award them precisely zero compensation
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Is it worth it?
In recent issues of Building, the alarm has been raised about the increasing cost of going to adjudication. Now we want you to help us find out the facts
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CommentIt’s bad news, I’m afraid
Project managers and clients beware: under certain circumstances, you may fall under the Inland Revenue’s CIS scheme – with unpleasant consequences
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Why we said what we said
In your leader “Rouse … to Simmons” (15 October, page 3), CABE’s views of the proposals for the Royal London Hospital are criticised as “ill-judged” and “ill-timed”.
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Slums for the future
I wonder how many of your readers spotted that the balconies at Barons Place (8 October, page 39) have been installed upside down.