Opinion – Page 575
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Babbling Brooke
The short article on the Brooke Report (11 June, page 14) posed the question, "Do you think the changes will end the QS rebellion?" I think I speak for most of the QS members when I answer a resounding NO!
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Ahead of the game
I was interested to read the "news" item "Experts warn of risk from unsafe window glass" (18 June, page 17).
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Damp patches affect us all
I'm sure many of your readers will have read Jeff Howell's article with the sort of gentle amusement he alludes to (11 June, page 31), smugly thinking that the issues he describes are unique to the homeowner market and do not apply in the "proper" construction industry.
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ACBEE's angels
I should correct a misapprehension in the article on Accelerating Change in Built Environment Education (18 June, page 18).
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Guilty, as supercharged
A small correction to your article "Shanghai Zoom" (18 June, page 20): while Formula 1 cars are undoubtedly flashy, they are not supercharged. That hasn't been allowed since 1988, apparently.
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Looking on the bright side
Your report on the industry's reactions to the DTI's withdrawal of ringfenced construction research funding (25 June, page 44) was so negative I was prompted to write.
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When insurers won't pick up the tab
The defendant firm of solicitors was retained by a subcontractor of Mowlem in connection with an arbitration commenced by the subcontractor against Mowlem. The subcontractor sought to recover £150,000, which they claimed was owing to them. Mowlem brought a counterclaim for a much larger sum, and the arbitrator ultimately ...
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CommentReturn to sender
Attention all clients! If an adviser turns itself into a limited liability partnership and writes to ask you to change your contracts accordingly, don't. This is why …
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CommentLegal aliens
The little green men from Euroland love to stamp on anything the British are good at, such as the PFI – although 'competitive dialogue' may mark a lighter touch
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Barker but no bite
After Kate Barker's review of housing supply, the industry looked forward to tough changes sparking a housing bonanza. Get one thing straight - it isn't going to happen
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CommentIt's a gas, gas, gas
Welcome to the crazy mixed-up world of utilities, where you never know who's selling what or who's going to install it – and neither does anybody else!
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CommentMarketwatch: office special
It was billed as 'The Big Comeback' – London's office developers were going to wow us with a spending extravaganza. But as we report, in reality market recovery has been more of a slow burn
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CommentDiary of an architectural practice, aged 6 months
This month staff at Make get technical – from grappling with the photocopier to the weighty matter of voting for their favourite cake electronically
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A servant may have but one master
The Construction Industry Council's new novation form rejects the idea that a consultant can work for a client and a contractor – and be liable to both
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You be the judge
In our third session, after we posed a tricky hypothetical case back in April, a reader dons a wig and passes judgment – and our question-setter offers his view. Plus another contentious issue to get your teeth into …
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Tom's tower
Tom Barker (11 June, page 34) asks us to believe that the building industry is not catching up with the technological ideas that were proposed back in the early 1960s and then sets out to "explode a few myths".