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鈥� And Taylor on Knowles
Further to the article by Malcolm Taylor (no relation) in 好色先生TV (22 October, page 33) regarding his dissatisfaction with the RICS, I was interested in the follow-up letter by the much respected Roger Knowles (29 October, page 27) and his effort to entice more QSs to join his breakaway organisation. ...
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Let鈥檚 play associations
I read with interest your article on specialists (19 November, page 36) and would respectfully point out that at least six companies in your fit-out category are NAS members, including ISG Retail, and are most certainly not subcontractors as your opening header suggests. I would also point out that they ...
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CommentInbox special advisers
Tony Pidgley, Caroline Buckingham and John Bale take the government aside for a bit of a chat
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CommentHome improvements
Regarding the article 鈥淥sborne鈥檚 axe fells schools and housing鈥� (22 October, page 9), you鈥檙e right that we鈥檙e going to need to attract a huge amount of private sector finance into the refurbishment of our existing housing stock over the next decade
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In the detail
On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year鈥檚 Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.
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There is another way
I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in 好色先生TV (22 October, page 33). His dissatisfaction with the RICS expresses the feelings of many of its QS members.
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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher 好色先生TV
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Rudi was right ...
The penultimate paragraph of Stuart Pemble鈥檚 article 鈥淗ave I really been negligent?鈥� (8 October, page 73) leads me to the view that he is wrong and Rudi Klein is, as usual, right
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Was Rudi right?
Every now and then Rudi Klein makes a worthwhile and original point, but his article 鈥淵ou鈥檝e been warned鈥� (17 September 2010, page 57) is not such an occasion.
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Disarming deathtraps
Jennifer Deeney鈥檚 tragic story makes sobering reading, as does Tony Bingham鈥檚 article on the wall collapse (1 October). They emphasise the fact that freestanding walls can be deathtraps.
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Belfast's new troubles
Regarding the planned spending cuts in Northern Ireland, if ministers would get some sort of PPP in place to fill the public sector funding void, privatise water and other public bodies and sort out the planning system, the cuts would not be so severe
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Train to win
Tony Bingham has been a long-time critic of the levy system so it was disappointing, but not surprising, that his recent article 鈥淔eeling a little short changed?鈥� repeated the arguments against CITB-ConstructionSkills currently being used by the Federation of Plastering and Drywall Contractors
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A little less conversation
If housing minister Grant Shapps is so confident about his housebuilding incentive scheme (1 October, page 12), will he now explain why the details of how it will work have yet to see the light of day?
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CommentMust-see TV
Christopher Hare snapped these two committed couch potatoes trying to fit a TV aerial in a rainy London Bridge. Clearly the television schedules must have improved since we last looked 鈥�
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Long live RSLs
Oh dear Mr Shapps! What an ill-conceived comment about housing association 鈥渇at cat鈥� pay
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Green gauge
Exactly how the Green Investment Bank will be funded and managed continues to be up for debate but there is only so much longer this can go on before the 鈥済reenest government ever鈥� gets a reputation for being all talk and no action
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In the steps of Duncan Wallace
Rudi Klein asserted that 鈥渢raditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence鈥�
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Because you're worth it
Chris Cheshire has hit the nail right on the head with his comments about low quotes (17 September, page 10)