All Letters articles – Page 19

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    Not over yet

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    I enjoyed the broad-ranging discussion as a panel member of the round table on cavity walls on 7 September

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    Future prices

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Never forget the power of the market forces and bank valuations

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    Finer matters

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Some of us may remember the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC). It was about as effective as Cabe, though having to work more through the community

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    Domino effect

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your article “Bovis asks suppliers about Rok exposure” (12 November, page 11), I for one can see nothing untoward in this move

  • Is a QS liable for defective works?
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    Quality control

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Bingham and Walker pirouette around the truth (29 October, page 52), without coming to the point, in arguing the duty a QS owes to the client in valuing work in progress under a JCT contract. JCT makes it clear that only the architect is to judge if what is being ...

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    Future burdens ...

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the loophole in the new Part L rules, this is a missed opportunity by the communities department to drive down the emissions of new-build homes

  • Beckton’s waste water treatment facility in east London is the largest sewage works in Europe
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    Makes scents

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    I read your article “Galliford bags sewage job” (2 November, building.co.uk). There is something I have been banging on about for years. I have written several letters to various bodies about this issue: simply that the largest waste water facility in Europe must produce one hell of a lot of ...

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    Outlook: gloomy

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    I agree that the industry is in decline. I thought a trade would serve me for life but now with an ever-increasing amount of red tape I feel that many people like me would opt for another career

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    Don't speak too soon

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    This week’s latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Cips) confirms recent warnings from the Scottish ɫTV Federation that the rise in construction output witnessed in the early part of this year was never going to last

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    Circle line

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    In the 1991 recession, I joined the last London Underground major project team for the Jubilee line extension.

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    SFO means business

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It is sometimes said compliance with the new Bribery Act is impractical in the construction sector (“Where the buck stops”, 29 October, page 34)

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    Inbox special advisers

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Tony Pidgley, Caroline Buckingham and John Bale take the government aside for a bit of a chat

  • Osborne is counting on something like £100bn of private finance for home improvements over the next 10 years
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    Home improvements

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the article “Osborne’s axe fells schools and housing” (22 October, page 9), you’re right that we’re 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

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year’s Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.

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    There is another way

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in ɫTV (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

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher ɫTV

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    Rudi was right ...

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The penultimate paragraph of Stuart Pemble’s article “Have I really been negligent?” (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?

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Every now and then Rudi Klein makes a worthwhile and original point, but his article “You’ve been warned” (17 September 2010, page 57) is not such an occasion.

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    Disarming deathtraps

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Jennifer Deeney’s tragic story makes sobering reading, as does Tony Bingham’s 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

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    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