All Letters articles – Page 50

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    Money in the bank

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    As the originators of the project bank account (PBA) model, my colleagues at Rider Levett Bucknall and I were delighted to see your legal columnists giving a positive welcome to the PBA (8 January, pages 62-65).

  • The Stephen Lawrence centre, the day after it was vandalised
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    Architecture is not enough

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    As an architect who used to live in east Greenwich (we worked on The Albany Project in my second year at architecture school) and whose children attended school in Deptford, I am writing from the US to express my disgust at the racist attack described in your article (“Adjaye’s Stephen ...

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    What London needs

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article on the establishment of a London board of the Home and Communities Agency (7 February, ڶ.co.uk), the availability of affordable housing in the capital is one of the city’s most pressing issues.

  • Will the low emissions zone do anything to solve London’s pollution problem?
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    Keep on truckin’

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The US brought in low emissions for trucks about 15 years ago.

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    The facts of life

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the copious articles (8 February, page 62-65) regarding the Office of Government Commerce’s Guide to Best Fair Payment Practice and the follow-on subject of project bank accounts.

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    In the detail

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

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

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    When theres nobody to chase

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham’s boss, a main contractor, was very good at chasing retentions from employers and getting paid (25 January, page 60); the problem comes when the employer goes bust.

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    An honest answer

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Reading Amanda Levete’s arguments in support of nuclear power (8 February, pages 30 -31) reminded me of a conference I attended four years ago.

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    Whose risk is it?

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    In his legal column, James Bessey (25 January, page 59) tells us “there was a first and second layer of insurers. The first paid out, but the second reserved its position”. If the court has established liability, on what grounds can an insurer refuse to pay?

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    For the love of it

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    With the long hours, job insecurity, capricious clients, and the quality of work life resulting from shoestring budgets (not to mention low pay) isn't it amazing anyone stays in this game (“Architects look abroad as staffing crisis deepens”, 1 February, page 15)?

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    Know your limits

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Shy Jackson (25 January, page 60) refers to the government’s renewed interest in the Law Commission proposals on reform of the law of time limitation.

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    In the detail

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

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

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    Sir Bernard’s folly

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    I note your interview with Sir Bernard Ingham.

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    The woodenheaded media

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    A recent article in the Telegraph magazine disturbed me for displaying a conspicuous bias against PVCu windows and I wrote to the magazine to put the record straight.

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    Here's how

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your piece “What’s missing is an understanding of what works and what doesn’t” (18 January, page 48).

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    Put your pens down

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Are these firms that are imposing 5% cuts on their subcontractors (18 January, page 9) unaware of Latham, Egan and approaches such as Lean Construction to improving the efficiency of the supply chain?

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    In the detail

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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    University challenge

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Universities and employers do seem to be missing a trick when it comes to the use of construction students within the industry (18 January, page 52).

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    The QS is alive and well …

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The QS is a dying breed (18 January, page 21).

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    … and happy to be abroad

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    I am an expat QS and a member of the RICS. Please, for the sake of my sanity and that of others, do not carry any articles about the RICS’ desire to have visa restrictions lifted for foreign QSs.