Opinion – Page 591
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Healthy competition
I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.
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Let your voice be heard
I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.
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Nimbyism at work
Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.
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Hissed again
In recognition of your timely post-Crimbo blitz on the dangers of the demon drink (16 January, pages 1, 3 and 24), wouldn't it be a consistent gesture to abandon the lashing out of £25 drinks vouchers to the winners of the excellent "In the detail" competition on this page? ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier
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Returning fire
This was an appeal from a decision of His Honour Judge Bowsher in the Technology & Construction Court of 3 March 2003. The judge had found the defendant architect (Paskin) liable in full for the damage arising from the spread of fire on 4 January 1998 that destroyed the food ...
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Construction idol
Channel 4's Demolition Day proves that our appetite for reality TV knows no bounds … and that even experts in the building trade can develop a taste for showbiz
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Suing the sewers
If overflowing sewers are driving you round the U-bend, don't hold out any hope of compensation from the water company – just get yourself a good mop
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What's in a handshake?
When a TV company started looking for a home for Fame Academy, it kept its options open with two potential agreements. If only it hadn't shook on one of them …
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An affair of the heart …
How rich for journalists, of all people, to be lecturing others on the perils of boozing and bingeing. Well, yes, all right.
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Axed? Not me
It is totally wrong for your magazine to have stated that the Richard Rogers Partnership had been "axed" by BAA (19 December, page 13).
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Another axe to grind
Your article (19 December 2003, page 13) about BAA cutting firms from its framework agreement is reported in such a way that will be damaging to our business and does not report our true working relationship with BAA.
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Like working for free?
It will never cease to amazed me how little attention is paid in the world of business to the ability of a client to pay and how easy it is to convince suppliers to provide goods and services on credit.
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Let's target the target-setters
I read with amusement the multiple stories in your 12 December issue (page 3 and15) arising from the woolly targets and grandiose statements issued by Dennis Lenard and Peter Rogers.
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A yell from the rebel
The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors is not to be confused with the well respected ICE further down Great George Street from the RICS.
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Good old-fashioned advice
Tony Bingham is absolutely right (19 December, page 46) to advise that firms check the expertise and experience of any potential "other party" before entering into contracts.
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Employers beware
Tony Bingham's report on the case of Rupert Morgan Building Services vs Jervis and Jervis is fine as far as it goes (5 December, page 49).
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My cure-all health plan
We could improve construction in one fell swoop by making health and safety training a precondition for anybody becoming a company director
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CommentNo job for Superman
Any adjudicator who comes to a dispute too convinced of their own expertise may not be able to judge the case in an open-minded, impartial way