Opinion – Page 456
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Here’s the pitch
Our industry will never have the skills or resources to communicate to a mass audience in the way of a great film director like Sydney Pollack, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a trick or two ...
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Policies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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You bought it, you pay for it
Question: When does a main contractor have to pay a subcontractor for work that it hasn’t done? Answer: When it agreed a fixed-price lump sum contract based on issued drawings …
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ڶ windmills in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Open mike — The GLA wants office buildings to generate 20% of the energy they use. The only problem with this, says Richard Kauntze, is it can’t be done. So here’s a proposal that will work
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What’s the best way to build a tower?
Tall buildings are shooting up all over Britain. This raises the question: which procurement route should you use to construct them? Here’s the first of two articles on this very question
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Private investigations
Construction is a hotbed of malpractice and graft, so there’s a good chance your company will be affected. If so, how do you find out whodunnit? Angus Darroch-Warren explains
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Wonders & blunders
Alistair Barr picks two City columns, one a multitalented 17th-century marvel, the other a bang-up-to date failure of nerve and imagination
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Sound advice
Edinburgh academics explain why you should listen to your building materials before using them, plus Ed Balls’ guide to parenting and the JFK approach to dealing with specialist contractors
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Heres a plan
The recently announced Office of Fair Trading study into the UK housebuilding industry highlights two areas of concern: land supply and planning.
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Gordon’s first steps
Housing reform was rightly the centrepiece of the legislative programme unveiled by Gordon Brown.
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At the forum
Your article on the handover of the chairmanship of the Strategic Forum (6 July, page 36) refers to “the three core member bodies” of the forum.
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Quarry House
The caption accompanying the picture of Quarry House (13 July, page 37) indicates that it was designed by Sir Terry Farrell.
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Allow me to present your bill
The Construction Act consultation has acknowledged that companies need payment certainty, but it is not tackling the surreal arrangement whereby the payer decides what the payee is owed
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Fellow travellers
The construction industry has gone cycling mad this year, with events like Cycle to Cannes and the Olympic velodrome designs being released.
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Who goes there?
One of the odd things about private equity firms is just how unprivate they have become of late.
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Everyone’s a loser
Ms Tomlinson and Mr Wilson, a builder, entered into a contract for the construction of a small kitchen and bathroom extension to Tomlinson’s house in Easingwold. The parties agreed that the contract sum would be paid in stages.Wilson had constructed the extension to roof level when work ceased. This work ...