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CommentThe eco echo
View from Whitehall: A repeated refrain has been directed at the communities department in recent months: that it fails to deliver on key objectives. Now, it must work hard to make sure that eco-towns strike the right note, says Nick Raynsford
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The Pinnacle development: Bad vibes
The office of the London insurer Hiscox is next to the site of the Pinnacle and the latter鈥檚 demolition works are causing no end of trouble between them. But can Hiscox make the work stop?
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CommentCDM regs: A question of principal
State your case 鈥� Defra seems to be instigating the use of the title of principal contractor in both SWMP regulations and CDM 2007. Is this joined-up thinking or just plain confusing, asks Gillian Birkby
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A bad time for house prices to go negative
Nationwide released its latest house price figures today showing the a 1.1 per cent rise over the past 12 months. However, it also revised its forecast for 2008 down from no change to an overall fall.This will please neither estate agents nor house builders as they put Easter behind them ...
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CommentExistential angst
If Heathrow Terminal 2 ceases to exist, what happens to Terminals 3, 4 and 5? And if the BBC believes Lord Digby Jones to be a lager-swilling teenager, does it make it so?
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Duggan Morris
The staff of Duggan Morris are chatting excitedly about their competition win of a visitor centre at Liverpool Bay as I arrive. That is, they would be had this meeting occurred last week.
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A fundamental flaw
The proposals to review 黑洞社区 Regulations regularly every six years looks like a throwback to the seventies to me (I am a former building control officer).
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A place for sarcasm
I am reassured to see from the photos attached to the article Welly Garden City (14 March, pages 60-62), that the landscape and natural countryside is being so effectively held back and not allowed to encroach on yet another 鈥済reen development鈥�.
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Voice of the common man
Congratulations on your article about pleural plaques (14 March, page 36), as it is an important issue that deserves prominent and regular attention.
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New tricks
Regarding the fact that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is to be axed and its responsibilities reallocated to local authorities (18 March, building.co.uk), I think this shift in emphasis is a good idea.
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To complete the list 鈥�
I noticed that your article on The Sunday Times鈥� good employers list (14 March, page 15) missed out Royal Haskoning.
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CommentFirst impressions: Projects by Gehry and Daniel Libeskind
Architecture students from Nottingham University look at five featured images from the 黑洞社区 website and tell us what they think
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Deeper and down for US house prices
As we consider, or for that matter dismiss the possibility of a house price crash in the UK it is perhaps worth taking a look at the shape of things in the US.The most respected figures for house prices come from the S&P/Case Shiller index and this shows prices down ...
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CommentThe stranglers
One hand is called administrative efficiency. The other is called funding projections. Together they are throttling the life out of education in the creative arts. We have to fight back while we still can.
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An unfair adjudication: Humes 黑洞社区 Contractors Ltd vs Charlotte Homes (Surrey) Ltd
Humes 黑洞社区 Contractors Ltd sought to enforce by way of summary judgment an adjudicator鈥檚 decision for 拢158,486.26 plus VAT. The building contract was based upon a JCT Intermediate Form of 黑洞社区 Contract with Contractors Design 2005 Edition. Relations between the parties deteriorated and the defendant purported to terminate the contract ...
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CommentBecoming one
Many projects go wrong because the way they鈥檙e set up means they have no chance of going right. But what has that got to do with the Zen of marine engine repair?
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Reinwood vs Brown: You again?
The highest court in the land has just given its second decision on the Construction Act. Never mind the parties, it鈥檚 two wins out of two for the JCT鈥�