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CommentHansom: Financial advisers
A City update, a pub in France during a football match, the RICS鈥� new service, even Amy Winehouse 鈥� it seems you can find business advice anywhere this week. Oh, except at a RIBA business advice event
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Crazy money
Richard Steer鈥檚 point that low bids are giving the QS industry a bad name is absolutely on the mark (13 November, page 34) 鈥� and if we鈥檙e not careful, what we鈥檒l see eventually is death by a thousand cuts. However, the larger consultancy firms such as the big six or ...
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CommentSound advice
The Noise Abatement Society鈥檚 Love Your Ears campaign aims to raise awareness and protect children鈥檚 hearing from permanent damage through continued exposure to loud music on MP3 players. However, it should also echo with the construction industry, where BB93 verification is yet to become mandatory and schools still risk failing ...
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The price is wrong
The message sent out by Richard Steer is very apt in relation to what is happening in the marketplace. I question, though, whether his points only apply to QS consultants
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It鈥檚 no fun anymore
Having been a member of the RICS for more than 50 years, I read with interest your leader on 20 November (page 3)
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My health and safety sleep-in
After 50 years鈥� unbroken employment in the construction industry I was made redundant in July. I鈥檝e been catching up on some 黑洞社区 back numbers before savouring the luxury of going back to bed for an hour or so before breakfast
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Talking up the upturn
Following the Construction Products Association鈥檚 announcement that nine out of 10 construction products firms has reported significantly falling sales, it is easy to feel negative. However, as America and the rest of Europe are well on their way out of recession, we must be positive to ensure that we follow ...
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CommentSteel yourselves: John Sorrell on school design
Just as we鈥檝e finally started to build well-designed schools, the knives are out to cut back on quality. We have to resist those who threaten to wield them
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CommentCutting bureaucracy: Smash the system!
The spirit of adventure will thrive again, but only if we free it from the soul-crushing bureaucracy of planning rules, building regs, safety protocols and sustainability
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Watkins Gray International
Get a predominantly male crowd of people together in a pub, not all of whom know each other, and chances are they鈥檒l end up talking about sport. In this case: motor racing
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CommentRICS and its members: Losing touch
Members from across the whole of the organisation feel the RICS is morphing from an elected body for the members into a quango wannabe
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Your critics miss the point
Tony Bingham鈥檚 and Rudi Klein鈥檚 (9 October, page 32) articles on the OFT are linked and raise more questions than they answer
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but so does the OFT
Tony Bingham seems to have his finger on the pulse when it comes to explaining cover pricing, which was always a benign process (30 October, page 32)
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Everybody wins
We are, of course, sympathetic to the plight of housebuilders in the current economic climate, but we are deeply concerned by any suggestion that the Lifetime Homes standard should be dropped as part of a review of regulatory 鈥渞ed tape鈥� (30 October, page 19)
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Just a drop in the (rising) ocean
I was pleased to hear Scottish housing and communities minister Alex Neil announce a 拢15m Scottish home insulation scheme administered by the Energy Saving Trust last week
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Saving the best for last: Wolstenholme report
We鈥檝e had Latham, we鈥檝e had Egan and now we have Wolstenholme. But the most intriguing part of this latest report is what a set of young professionals have to say
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Eco offences: A civil war on pollution
The proposed Environmental Civil Sanctions Order will give regulators powers to impose penalties on construction firms that damage the environment
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How do I... assemble contract documents?
Assembling contract documents correctly is the secret to ensuring a smooth and dispute-free construction process, says John Hughes D鈥橝eth. And here鈥檚 how it鈥檚 done
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CommentThe balfour beatty phenomenon
This contractor鈥檚 acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff will be prompting its rivals to ask whether expansion might be a far-sighted strategy in tough times