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Credit crunch advice: Shelter from the storm
聽In the first of a series on the legal implications of the economic downturn, we run through the options for limiting your exposure to risky projects
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CommentK is for key performance indicators
A-Z of construction law聽Our beginner鈥檚 guide to legal basics reaches K, and the increasingly important notion of the key performance indicator
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CommentMy digital life: Chris Bone
The Bone Steel boss likes the instant communication and access to news and sports the web offers, but prefers networking face to face
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CommentHow have the mighty fallen
The bold and the beautiful at Dubai鈥檚 latest luxury resort get a nasty shock, a celebrity gardener is rudely excluded and a mathematically minded company boss makes a third blunder
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CommentOur obscene failure
The response of the housebuilding industry to the downturn is to stop building and cast off the very people it will need to help it recover. We have to be far more imaginative, says David Lock
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Scheming spires
Could the Royal Town Planning Institute have contributed to the shortage of qualified planners?
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CommentBack to nature
Regeneration is always a positive move, however, we have to remember why some buildings built hundreds of years ago are still standing up and looking beautiful today, whereas most modern buildings turn ugly and dysfunctional after a few decades.
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Going concern
The health and safety blunder photograph on 26 September (page 35) raised concerns for us.
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Community action
In response to Robert Adam鈥檚 article 鈥淭hey鈥檙e having you on鈥� (26 September, page 36), I would like to draw Mr Adam鈥檚 attention to the Construction Emissions Community of Practice (CECoP), an inclusive group of practitioners brought together to develop a fair and transparent methodology to assess the initial impact of ...
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Government: the noes have it 鈥�
Margaret Beckett will undoubtedly make just as big an impact on housing as she did during the foot and mouth epidemic: none.Mike Morgan
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鈥� again 鈥�
The government of the UK is a pathetic joke and construction is particularly affected.
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鈥� and, well, you get the point
So the government may ditch its own standards on eco-towns. Ministers need to get a much higher calibre of advice on this.
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Who鈥檚 suing whom A round-up of the writs in the Technology and Construction Court
Berkeley Homes vs Danel and Alexandra Cleland-James
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CommentWebmaster review: Feilden Clegg Bradley website
Following Feilden Clegg Bradley鈥檚 recent Stirling prize victory, we take a look at www.fcbstudios.com to see if its website design matches its Accordia project
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Sheppard Robson
Camden is usually a good place to spot celebrities, be it Amy Winehouse or the Mighty Boosh.
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 2
There was one intriguing bit in Margaret Beckett's speech to the Housing Market Intelligence conference yesterday that baffled me at the time and I am glad to say baffled others.She said: "On land supply, there may be ways that we can reduce the risk to new developments, by bringing forward ...
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 1
I spent yesterday at the Housing Market Intelligence conference in London. Naturally I found it excellent. Of course I would say that as I'm involved in it.Bias taken into account, here is just one of a many of observations from the conference.Margaret Beckett gave her first speech as the newly ...
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Bright spots in the gloom says Experian's latest construction forecast
I've just received an email from James Hastings, head of construction futures at Experian Business Strategies with the latest forecast update attached.And, not a surprise, it was gloomier than the summer forecast, which then saw the industry overall stumbling rather than plunging into recession this year and next. It is ...