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鈥� and happy to be abroad
I am an expat QS and a member of the RICS. Please, for the sake of my sanity and that of others, do not carry any articles about the RICS鈥� desire to have visa restrictions lifted for foreign QSs.
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Put your pens down
Are these firms that are imposing 5% cuts on their subcontractors (18 January, page 9) unaware of Latham, Egan and approaches such as Lean Construction to improving the efficiency of the supply chain?
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Here's how
I read with interest your piece 鈥淲hat鈥檚 missing is an understanding of what works and what doesn鈥檛鈥� (18 January, page 48).
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The woodenheaded media
A recent article in the Telegraph magazine disturbed me for displaying a conspicuous bias against PVCu windows and I wrote to the magazine to put the record straight.
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University challenge
Universities and employers do seem to be missing a trick when it comes to the use of construction students within the industry (18 January, page 52).
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CommentIs Prince Charles right?
Prince Charles鈥� speech on new buildings in old places last week was not the bombshell lobbed by his 鈥渕onstrous carbuncle鈥� diatribe of 1984, which precipitated a nationwide reaction by planning authorities against modern architecture.
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CommentThe solution
For the past 50 years we鈥檝e fretted and failed to find a way to make the most of prefabrication. Now we鈥檝e cracked it, thanks to China, the humble shipping container and a way to make the most of both of them
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Reinwood Ltd vs L Brown & Sons Ltd
This appeal raised a point of interpretation of a standard JCT form of contract on which there appears to be no previous authority. The point turned on the relationship between clauses 24 (damages for non-completion), 25 (extension of time), 28 (determination by the contractor) and 30 (certificates and payment). ...
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CommentCan I have your attention, please?
It鈥檚 not so difficult to open young people鈥檚 eyes to the excitements of the built environment. All it takes is a little creativity, hard cash and the ability to surprise
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CommentOpen mike: Are you sitting comfortably?
You鈥檝e built your office and handed it over in all its pristine glory, but whether those actually working in it are happy 鈥� well, that鈥檚 not your business is it? Oh, but it is.
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CommentYou can鈥檛 always get what you want
聽Here鈥檚 the story of a PFI scheme that caught fire. And it鈥檚 the story of how the parties then strained to construe their contracts in the most favourable way. Some were not successful
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Challenging times
There will be a lot of legal change this year, with major revisions to immigration law, more stringent health and safety regs and a move to increase new homes鈥� energy efficiency
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CommentTop 25 architect websites: Flash blindness
Do you glaze over every time you have to navigate through endless animations on architects鈥� websites? Well, you鈥檙e not alone, says website expert Martin Hornagold
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CommentHansom Eye candy
This week, why the Candy brothers鈥� 拢1bn Fitzrovia scheme is a no-no, subcontractors are put in their place and sex, politics and housing policy become strangely conjoined
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Constructing Excellence
The Phoenix isn鈥檛 always this busy on a Tuesday night in January, apparently. Despite the markets going into freefall a few hours earlier, every chair and table in the room is taken and it鈥檚 standing room only at the bar.
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CommentThat was then, this is now
So once the project team have finished sighing with relief, no doubt their chests will swell with pride: Terminal 5 has come in on time and to budget.
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The softly, softly approach
Regarding the article 鈥淗ousebuilders scramble to tackle credit crunch crisis鈥� (18 January, page 9), while it is right that all organisations 鈥� clients, housebuilders, local authorities 鈥� have a focus on cost reduction, it is important to consider how best to go about it.