Opinion – Page 217
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The future is BIM
This year’s BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM – but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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Unreasonable conduct: Webb Resolutions Limited vs JV Limited t/a Shepherd Chartered Surveyors
In this case the claimant’s solicitors produced an order which failed to reflect what had been directed by the court – and their manoeuvres did not impress the judge
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My working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs
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Kier-May Gurney: A good deal?
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney
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My digital life … Paul King
The Green ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Council chief executive on converting to Macs, guitar heroes of the sixties and seventies, and temperamental iPad Notes
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Green rating systems: Bespoke solutions needed
An assessment of the problems with green building rating systems following last week’s feature article
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Permitted development work will not help
Eric is getting in a right pickle (Pickles promises to revise home extensions plan, www.building.co.uk, 16 April 2013). This is a piece of ill thought-out legislation, which will not create more work for the building trade and will just cause a lot of neighbour disputes. There are already too many ...
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Downward spiral continues with Osborne
The chancellor is to blame for blocking the industry’s recovery
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Hansom: Out on the tiles
Nocturnal celebrations of a bacchanalian nature are a feature of this week’s hectic schedule - leaving more sober heads to advise on flood defences, though a junior minister puts a spanner in the works
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The next 170 years
Despite gloomy market forecasts this industry is making quiet progress and continues to innovate, and that deserves recognition
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Wonders & blunders with Mark Legg
Mark Legg is mesmerized by the fusion of old and new at King’s Cross but finds Croydon’s ‘formidable’ Lunar house an undignified example of modernist architecture
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How difficult can it be?
Fixing our housing problems will be a hard slog - but some progress is being made, says Andrew Stunell
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Construction forecasts shaded up, but still predict recession dragging on into 2014
Revisions suggest there will be an extra one billion or so pounds worth of work flowing into construction this year than previously expected
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Look back in anger
Firms involved in the blacklisting scandal now have to decide how to manage the far-reaching repercussions
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My digital life … Henry Henson
The graduate surveyor on sleeping with his iPhone, running marathons, and using LinkedIn for networking
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø buys a pint for … The ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards shortlist
Payment terms, lycra and lap dancing are discussed at the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards shortlist party