All Inbox articles – Page 5

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    Sound advice

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your recent article on free schools (10 September, page 42) and agree wholeheartedly, in principle, that existing buildings should be considered for conversion into so-called free schools

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    Maglev's unworkable

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Maglev is a wonderful idea

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    Maglev's inflexible

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The only problem with maglev (and the reason it is not being adopted widely, even in China) is its inflexibility and inability to handle the passenger flows moving between cities (3 September, page 38).

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    How much wood?

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    I found the words in ɫTV’s leader (27 August, page 3) and the article on timber frame fire risk (page 9) incredible

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    Tradition be damned

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Ah, the past, how it used to be (Inbox, The silent QSs, 10 September, page 22).

  • Sizeable populations of great crested newts have been rehoused for their own good
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    Great crested newts!

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    As your recent article describes (27 August, page 36), the scale of the London Gateway Development - and the fact that the site lies at the heart of one of Europe’s most important estuary and wetland habitats - presents unique challenges

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    The big squeeze

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Connaught’s difficulties have highlighted what most of us who work in the social housing repairs sector are already aware of

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    The silent QSs

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Are ɫTV readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?

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    The worst-laid plans

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.

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    Turning the heat on fire report

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety

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    Count the costs

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)

  • Clive’s lighthouses would not have turned out nearly so well without careful tool use
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    Storytime: Wilfred and the chisel

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat

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    Winds of change

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.

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    A nonsulting request

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Those of your readers who managed to read e-ɫTV on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for ɫTV Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)

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    The train line

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    ɫTV that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.

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    What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article about Laing O’Rourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed

  • This house was designed to be highly sustainable – and it is!
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    You've got the wrong house

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (“This house has been designed to be highly sustainable

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    Restructure or be left behind

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest ɫTV’s recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (“Newport, we have a problem”, 20 August, building.co.uk)

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    With a little understanding

    2010-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The “big society” is working well, then (Prescott ’growth areas’ pull plans for thousands of homes, 6 August, building.co.uk)

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    Right tool for the job

    2010-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Your article, Government’s carbon compliance tool ’inadequate’ (2 July, building.co.uk) raises an important question: why is the government continuing to spend money expanding the capabilities of SAP, when other alternative tools are already available in the form of SBEM and DSM?