Opinion – Page 440
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How to survive... Happy Holidays!
The best way around all festive pitfalls is, of course, not to be around when they occur...
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How to survive... the canteen Christmas dinner
All the embarrassment of the office Christmas dinner, but on work grounds, with worse food and no alcohol
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How to survive... the company 'Christmas present'
Or these days, the lack thereof - it's the time of giving, and we ain't too proud to beg...
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How to survive... the corporate Christmas card
It's worth saving up at least one day's holiday for Christmas to avoid the photoshoot for the company card
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How to survive... the Christmas party hangover
If you've survived the office party, well done, but you're only half way there. You still have to overcome the dreaded work hangover
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How to survive... working between Xmas and New Year
Actually the festive season is a great time to be in the office - you get to avoid the in-laws while putting your feet up on your boss's desk
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How to survive... Christmas gifts
Just received a Christmas hamper from that ever so loyal client? Well be prepared to share it round or risk their green-eyed envy of your colleagues...
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Going legal
As long as an adjudicator has considered the right question in a fair way, they’re free to make legal errors: the result will stand. But the legal issues are often complex and important: take global claims for example …
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Web watch — Logging off
That’s it for 2007, the year that ڶ stepped into virtual reality, Hansom signed up to Facebook and we all shared our thoughts on the Korean toilet house.
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An element of clunk
St Pancras station is, as we know, a remarkable restoration of a Victorian masterpiece of art and engineering. But that doesn’t mean it’s a brilliant building
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Gangmaster licences? Not for us, thanks
Before we rush into legislation to protect foreign workers, let’s look at the facts, says Stephen Ratcliffe: the vast majority are highly skilled and unlikely ever to be exploited
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Top 2007 construction cases: The best of the worst
This year was a relatively quiet one for King Kong vs Godzilla contests. But there were a few … so here’s six of the longest, bitterest and most important to brighten your Christmas. Unless, of course, you were actually in them
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Back issues — Counting the cost of Anthony Eden’s Middle Eastern misadventure
Suez: the aftermath
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Winter wonderland
A traditional yuletide mix of partying, heartbreak and simmering violence this week, seasoned with saucy humour, excessive punning and – hold on, where is that music coming from?
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A bit rich for a lawyer …
Despite my respect for John Redmond, I find his complaint that adjudicators’ fees are too expensive a bit rich (16 November, page 77). This is because, in my experience, the increase in the cost of adjudication is due almost entirely to the influence of lawyers.
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Smoke without fire
There is great speculation about the causes of the warehouse fire in Atherstone, Warwickshire, last month. Some of this is inappropriate and inaccurate, and seeks to make commercial gain by linking the untimely deaths of the firefighters with aspects of the construction.
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Old school
Presumably the Wren Academy (23 November, page 54) will be busing in children from all over who suddenly discover an urge to learn about the built environment.
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Correction
Thank you for your article written on our project based in Andover, entitled “BedZed’s Baby” (housing supplement, 23 November, page 36).
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Six stories that made a difference
Carillion snaps up McAlpine, Bouygues buys Warings, Turner & Townsend floats on the stock exchange … the year is ending as it started, with a bang.