All Letters articles – Page 54

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    About time

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    It’s good to see that Rider Levett Bucknall has caught up with the times (“Project bank account set to be launched” 28 September, page 14).

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    For your own good

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your articles on frameworks and small businesses (14 September, page 26).

  • Madam, I’m Adam
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    Get with the times

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Nick Raynsford raises some pertinent queries about the government’s plans to increase housing supply (14 September, page 30). The issue is whether this expansion will lead to a drop in design and environmental standards.

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    Looking to the future

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    ڶ showed itself to be rather behind the news when it said last week (28 September, pages 13 and 28) that it had “emerged” that the targets set in 2004 for the ڶ Schools for the Future (BSF) programme would not be met – something we have been saying, and ...

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    In the detail

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

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    The shame game

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Your health and safety blunders are all well and good, but just publishing them will not improve safety in the construction industry.

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    In the frame

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    I’m sorry to hear about the three contractors featured in your article “The men who got left behind” (14 September, page 26) who say they have lost business as a result of framework agreements, but our research has found that it needn’t be this way.

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    In the detail

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

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    Think of the children

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Bill Watts’ argument against the use of biomass to meet schools’ energy demands is woolly (24 August, page 32).

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    Risky business

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The directive to remove the legal obligation on architects trained in the EU to register with the Architects Registration Board, as long as they are working in the UK on a “temporary or occasional” basis, is due to be brought in by 20 October (31 August, page 12).

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    Faero responds

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    ڶ’s report on the Faero competent persons scheme, “HIPs firm goes into liquidation” (7 September, page 13), was right to suggest that its demise was a result of the government’s change of mind about how the quality of energy ratings should be regulated.

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    In the detail

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

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    Don't take the cowards route

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham’s article on the National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) payment toolkit brought to mind the phrase “Eureka!” (7 September, page 56).

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    Conflicting goals

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Your leader and feature on local contractors (14 September, 2007) was long overdue.

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    Merton rules

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    If the government does intend to drop the “Merton rule” that 10% of energy in new developments come from renewable sources (31 August, page 24), the rationale for the move would be that a single nationwide policy is better than different policies in different areas.

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    Remedial maths

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    In Bill Watts’ column (24 August, page 32) do I detect special pleading for wind farms to obscure the engineer’s incapacity to produce zero-energy buildings?

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    Killer noise

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    A new World Health Organisation report has revealed that excessive noise from modern urban life is killing almost 6,500 Britons a year.

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    Robust indeed

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    David Holder suggested on your letters page (31 August, page 28) that a pass rate of 97.5% for Robust Details is not good enough – and that “nobody wants to talk about it”. That’s wrong. I do.

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    Set up to fail

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    I have been listening to the media reports on the number of GCSEs being gained by those leaving school.

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    Do your duty

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article by Rupert Choat on the duty to warn about obvious dangers (24 August, page 48).