Opinion – Page 598

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    Who'll take on apprentices?

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I'd like to respond to the news of a new training board (3 October, page 3).

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    Fit for a comedy sketch

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    With reference to Roger Knowles' letter (10 October, page 36) and the rather tired debate over the RICS, may I point out that architects, engineers and solicitors all have their own specialisms yet remain quite content to practise under the generic banner of their profession.

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    Show a bit of initiative

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I was encouraged by the story "Clarke: Skills council will end need for foreign workers" (3 October, page 13).

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    Do one job well

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    We have been watching several professional organisations agonise over agendas for change for some time now, among them the RICS and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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    Not so special

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Your article "The Techmeisters" (26 September, page 74) was either written with tongue firmly in cheek or you fell under the spell of snake oil salesmen intent on cornering a market.

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    Hearing you loud and clear

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I read your news item about housebuilders being spared the need to test their houses for adequacy of sound resistance (29 August, page 13) and thought, what a shame.

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    More to restore …

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I recently watched Restoration on BBC2. Like many, I was both interested and depressed.

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    How can you say that?

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    The Treasury would have us believe that the PFI can do no wrong. But, as James Nesbit points out, its data makes genuine comparisons impossible

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    Wonders & blunders

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head

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    Good day at the office, dear?

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    The claimant, Mr Horkulak, had been threatened and humiliated by his manager over a period of some months. Finally, he walked out of his job as a senior managing director in a major broking house in the City of London. He saw his doctor the next day, who put him ...

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    Working in harmony

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    This month, a double issue of Specifier looks at doors and windows and flooring – and what dynamic sectors they are. Despite a flurry of new rules, architects are still turning out some great pieces of work – and Tinside Lido in Plymouth is one of them. The project team ...

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    Now we are three

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The pre-action protocol is three years old. So do we crack open the bubbly – or keep quiet and hope nobody will mention it? A new survey might help us decide

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    The peacemakers

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Dispute resolution boards are supposed to head off problems before they escalate into armed conflict. Question is, how do they do the heading off?

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    Give it to me straight

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    It’s all very well designing a building whose curves have been inspired by a hippopotamus’ backside, but just how does it fit in to our rectilinear urban jungle?

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    Hansom

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    This week, Bovis is guilty of cruelty to stuffed animals, architects take the biscuit and the Romans are just so last millennium, darling

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    What's behind the mergers

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Where's the boss? Not been around much lately?

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    Don't get too cosy

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    What do Esso, Jimi Hendrix and the construction industry have in common? The answer, of course, lies with double agent George Blake …

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    Stay on the ball

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    This case demonstrates, once again, the importance of tatooing any amendments you make to a standard form on a readily visible part of your body

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    Get back here

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The prospect of design work being outsourced overseas ("Good morning Vietnam", 5 September, pages 38-41) raises a number of concerns.

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    We're all managers now

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your letters page of 26 September (page 35).