All Letters articles – Page 95

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    … On a more optimistic note

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Getting role models in the industry to talk directly to young men and women is an effective way of changing attitudes, as suggested by Victoria Caesar (Letters, 12 November, page 36).

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    Learning curve

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Two brief points in connection with your article on my “re-education” (12 November, page 44).

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    Why bother?

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    In response to your recent editorial about encouraging young women into the construction industry I must ask, why?

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    Apprenticeships are thriving

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    May I congratulate your magazine for focusing on, over the past few issues, the immensely important topic of vocational training.

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    A poser for Patricia

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    I was pleased to see your news item detailing Patricia Hewitt’s plans to “crack industry’s ‘men only’ culture” (29 October, page 13), although I can’t help feeling that we have been here before.

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    Safety … mañana

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Here’s a slightly disturbing picture I took in Spain recently of roofers working on a housing development.

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    Regal, but not necessarily legal

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    With reference to your recent articles on professional organisations and their amalgamation into one body, I wonder if any of the present organisations have considered what the effect of the changes to the EU constitution might be.

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    French lesson

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Whether Gus Alexander is writing about the dome, the Cambridge Cattle Market Development or his experiences on small-scale building contracts, he seems to put my thoughts into words nearly every time.

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    Small, but perfectly formed

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    So, architect Alain Head has the solution to our housing problems (29 October, page 28).

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    The true cost

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    With reference to the adjudication survey on the ڶ website (29 October, page 15) and concern about the rise in adjudicator’s fees, it is commendable that someone is trying to get statistical information in order to better analyse the benefits or otherwise of adjudication.

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    Fresh blood at the RIBA

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA council has in the past been accused of being too conservative in its thinking and edicts, and as with all institutions there is a tendency to be retrospective.

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    A taste of union medicine

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read in your above article (22 October, page 10) that the TUC is stepping up pressure on the government to press ahead with its manifesto commitment to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation.

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    Our lives in your hands

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Designers seem to ignore their responsibilities under CDM regulations, in that they should be designing out risk wherever possible.

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    Ode to Gaia

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Ode to Gaia

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    Thatcher’s child

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).

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    Beyond Kyoto

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.

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    Unite behind unitisation

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).

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    Calling all megalomaniacs

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    In your article “The greatest buildings never built” (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller’s New York dome as a “megalomaniac plan”.

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    Piling on the agony

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    I read your piling special (15 October 2004, page 64) and found it lacking in up-to-date information in key areas.

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    Why we said what we said

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    In your leader “Rouse … to Simmons” (15 October, page 3), CABE’s views of the proposals for the Royal London Hospital are criticised as “ill-judged” and “ill-timed”.