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CommentThey know how to use the sky box
That鈥檚 just one of the benefits of having children. But the struggle to combine work and reproduction is rewarding, exhausting and different for everybody
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint: The interiors group
鈥淒o you watch Little Britain?鈥� Adrian demands as I sit down. 鈥淲ho does he look like? Go on, guess!鈥�
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Orders figures continue to point to a rougher road ahead
For those poring over the latest new orders figures released today to find guidance on the future of construction activity I suspect there is something for the optimists, but rather more for the pessimists.It must be said that trying to discern sensible insight from examining the orders figures month by ...
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Growing evidence of double dip collapse for construction
The latest round of trade survey data points to an ugly acceleration in the rate of collapse of workloads.Persistent sightings of green shoots over the late spring and summer now look to have been little more than a mirage.The construction trade survey compiled by the Construction Products Association says the ...
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CommentAfter the goldrush
The head of one British consultant in Dubai confessed that he will be using Indian QSs in the near future, many of whom will operate from the Subcontinent
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Bingham bites back
The Office of Fair Trading鈥檚 response to my column (23 October, page 30) condemns the OFT
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Get over it
What is all the fuss about over these OFT fines (Hays fumes 2 October, page 10)?
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She who laughs first 鈥�
I always find it interesting to read articles about women in construction (23 October, page 36)
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With friends like these 鈥�
Gillian Birkby (16 October, page 50) hits the nail on the head in berating public bodies for their unreasonably onerous appointment terms
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No laughing matter
For some time I have been uneasy about the direction of your health and safety blunders
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Back at you
You have really rattled my cage now! I complained that 黑洞社区 should not publish health and safety photos when it could do something positive, like report the matter to the Health and Safety Executive. Then you published Charles Johnston鈥檚 letter (23 October, page 31) suggesting my view was a 鈥渕inority ...
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How do I... draft a letter of intent?
In the latest of our series on tackling your own legal affairs, Deborah Primett explains how to draft the ever popular, ever problematic letter of intent
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CommentHansom: Epic tales
Construction folk fight the good fight this week; they clash with an A-list celeb, stagger through hurricanes, take on insane safety regs and eat all the pies
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Going all out for 80 per cent
Construction鈥檚 reform agenda needs kickstarting and a review of how the industry is placed to respond to the demands of a low carbon economy could do the trick
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CommentWonders & blunders with Chris Johnson
The Thorncrown Chapel in Arizona is worth a special pilgrimage, says Chris Johnson, but a classic example of eighties City architecture should be sent for recycling
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GDP figures: a turn up for the books
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its initial forecast of GDP for the third quarter of 2009 on Friday. With most forecasters anticipating the end of the recession, there was considerable disappointment that the economy has now been contracting for the past 18 months.For the record, the Construction Products ...
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White Young Green: investors brace yourself
Under Stock Market rules, White Young Green has got until the end of this week to announce its results. Gulp.If the word on the street is true, chief exec Paul Hamer and new chairman Mike McTighe are probably not expecting the most comfortable morning of their lives.Although the consultant engineer ...
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Falling construction helps hold UK in recession
An estimated fall of 1.1% in construction output in the third quarter of this year has helped to hold the UK economic growth in recessionary territory.Much to the surprise of many analysts the UK economy appears to have remained in recession, with GDP output falling 0.4% in the three months ...