All Inbox articles – Page 11

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    The bigger picture

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    With the continuing debate over the safety of timber frame, multistorey construction has failed to move forward. Individuals are beating the drum about the benefits of one material over another, but surely fire-safe building design and appropriate construction training is more important?

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    For arts sake

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    I read Tarek Merlin’s column (4 May, pages 34-45) with interest. Public Art South West is the regional development agency for public art but we work across the UK and have international links.

  • Here’s a building for the digital age, so there’s a lot to learn from it. But what is it?
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    In the detail

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    Raking in the profits

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I read your magazine each week with despair and resignation at the state of the industry, but I believe that the latest band wagon – zero-carbon houses – should be exposed as a fraud.

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    Do we really need QSs?

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A professor on a visit to Japan years ago told the local industry: “Don’t give them visas.”

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    Logical or lucrative?

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Sir Michael Latham’s call (9 March, page 36) for Gordon Brown to re-establish a Department of the Environment (DoE) under one ministerial responsibility is sensible, which is why it won’t happen.

  • Don't mess: the Dead Sea plan might not help the region's habitat and climate
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    Picking on the wrong guy

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Like many others living in Jordan, I am concerned about the dropping level of the Dead Sea (23 February, page 40).

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    Not so charitable

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your article on major international architectural practices designing affordable homes for South African township dwellers (9 March, page 15), surely for all the publicity they will get, they could put in more than 10 hours each.

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    Scrap BSF as a waste of time

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Regarding Paul Foster’s column about ڶ Schools for the Future (BSF) on 9 March (page 40), I have deep suspicions about this initiative.

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    In the detail

    2007-03-19T16:36:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    Not a Wise move

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The photograph of Chris Wise on the Barcelona Tower (23 February, page 54) must bring back many happy memories, but should ڶ be publishing images that do nothing to promote health and safety awareness?

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    A platform for idiocy

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the workers on the YouTube video – let it drop! The more space given to these clips (23 February, page 10) the more people will stage them.

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    The unsung heroes lament

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The unsung heroes’ lament I write regarding your article (5 January, page 36) with horoscopes of the 12 facets of the building industry. The contractor is one of the 12, as are the architect and the client but I’m gobsmacked engineers aren’t mentioned.

  • There’s not enough time for a second life
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    Double lives

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your proposed excursion into another life (16 February, page 46), I have problems finding enough time to live a real life – how can I run a second one?

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    Dont give up the fight

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The frustration and inequity surrounding the employment of immigrants and the obtaining of training visas for QSs cannot be underestimated. Yet to give up trying because the hurdles seem too great will do further injustice to a vital contributor to the UK’s economy and its built environment.

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    In the detail

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    Ecological confusion

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    I was shocked to see such a misleading article in ڶ (“Neutral ground” 23 February, page 60, about the legal framework of carbon neutral homes).

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    A bumpy start

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    I have worked as a QS, mainly in private practice, for 21 years now. Maybe I am a little sceptical.

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    Marketwatch: office special

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    *bookbox

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    As thoughts turn to escaping the office for sun, sea and sand, ڶ has compiled its own list of recommended summer reading. And, just so you don't forget work completely, all the books have guaranteed construction-related plots