Opinion – Page 301
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Let’s play associations
I read with interest your article on specialists (19 November, page 36) and would respectfully point out that at least six companies in your fit-out category are NAS members, including ISG Retail, and are most certainly not subcontractors as your opening header suggests. I would also point out that they ...
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Knowles on Levete …
The article by Amanda Levete in ڶ (19 November, page 26) kindled a few memories. She poses the question: “Higher education is going to become increasingly inaccessible, so why don’t we create ways of training architects on the job?”
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… And Taylor on Knowles
Further to the article by Malcolm Taylor (no relation) in ڶ (22 October, page 33) regarding his dissatisfaction with the RICS, I was interested in the follow-up letter by the much respected Roger Knowles (29 October, page 27) and his effort to entice more QSs to join his breakaway organisation. ...
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Fairness heads south
Come back John Prescott, all is forgiven! You probably never thought you’d hear such a plea
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Sticks for the North, carrots for the South in the New Home Bonus handicap race
Is the north funding the South's Nimbyism?
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Academia isn’t up to the job
University research consistently fails to address the practical realities of construction. What we need is industry people in academic posts controlling the purse strings
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Wonders & blunders with Bruce Kennedy
BDP’s director is inspired by New York’s forward-looking Rockefeller Centre, built in dark economic times, but regrets the retrogressive timidity of SOM’s One World Trade Centre
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PFI alternatives: A change of route
The damning National Audit Office report on the M25 widening scheme is the latest sign that PFI might be nearing the end of the road. But what are the alternatives?
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Hansom: Look over there!
Distractions abound in the industry this week, from executive toys in Rok’s offices, elusive bosses, misplacing a wind farm and a handy suggestion for the Irish government’s PR team
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Local authorities and housebuilding
Local authorities are using their new powers to cancel planned housing schemes, but that doesn’t mean housebuilders should just sit back, says Chris Cobbold
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... and then there were two
It seems Mark Hammond, 12 November’s blunder spotter, was not alone.
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Forecasters at Leading Edge see growth after a shallow drop next year
Forecasters optimistic that growth in private sector will compensate for loss in public work
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Passivhaus refurb diaries, part 7: Rendered insulation
Rendered insulation was used at the back of this Victorian house but there were problems to overcome …
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Construction’s downward revision yet to show in GDP figures
The latest construction figures will be factored into GDP figures next month
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RICS survey points heavily to a return to recession
Survey indicates surveyors’ workloads are now falling