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CommentWhat鈥檚 going on?
The 鈥檙esurgence in construction activity鈥� is proving difficult to detect in the real world. And even if growth does take off, it鈥檒l be a long time before we feel the benefit
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CommentQuentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I鈥檇 hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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Circle line
In the 1991 recession, I joined the last London Underground major project team for the Jubilee line extension.
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SFO means business
It is sometimes said compliance with the new Bribery Act is impractical in the construction sector (鈥淲here the buck stops鈥�, 29 October, page 34)
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Don't speak too soon
This week鈥檚 latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Cips) confirms recent warnings from the Scottish 黑洞社区 Federation that the rise in construction output witnessed in the early part of this year was never going to last
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CommentMakes scents
I read your article 鈥淕alliford bags sewage job鈥� (2 November, building.co.uk). There is something I have been banging on about for years. I have written several letters to various bodies about this issue: simply that the largest waste water facility in Europe must produce one hell of a lot of ...
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Outlook: gloomy
I agree that the industry is in decline. I thought a trade would serve me for life but now with an ever-increasing amount of red tape I feel that many people like me would opt for another career
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CommentDouble act
Mark Hammond says: 鈥淭hese men in Dubrovnik were making quite a good job of pointing the ridge tiles, but it makes you shudder to think how they got up there, or down again!鈥�
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CommentReturn to grub street
Open mike Remember how grimy our cities were until not so long ago? Well Cabe helped transform them by homing in on design quality, so its demise should worry us all, says Roger Madelin
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CommentSo this is sharing the pain?
Everybody is asking everybody else for a discount just when they are least able to offer one. We all end up losing out and undermining the relationships we need if we are to thrive
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CommentM is for Mediation, N is for Novation
Baffled by legal jargon? Don鈥檛 know ab initio novation from non-binding mediation? Luckily, we can tell you all about it. This week: M and N
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CommentPassivhaus diaries: Life at Denby Dale
Living in the Denby Dale Passivhaus still feels like something of a physics lesson to owners Geoff and Kate Tunstall (but in a good way). Here they give an update on how they have found their first summer and autumn in the house and their thoughts as they head into ...
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CommentIf the City punters are right brace for a double-digit fall in house prices
Traders are betting on a 6% fall in house prices next year
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CommentBenefits of QS work placements
The young QS started life as a geography student, but a summer placement with a construction contractor changed his career direction
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CommentBuyers and sellers abandon the housing market
And that鈥檚 bad news for house building numbers
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CommentIs the Green Deal a good deal?
This is the only government initiative targetting the energy efficiency of existing homes but it should be seen as just the start鈥�
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CommentMixed messages and some worries as payment delays in construction grow again
Over last quarter both construction and property sectors have taken longer to pay
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CommentTimeline: why Rok's in a hard place
The history of Rok from its formation in 1939 to the suspension of its shares this morning
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CommentPaul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan
The government鈥檚 construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock
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Short and tweet: Julian Hakes
The architect juggles his career as an architect and an emerging shoe designer