All Letters articles – Page 70

  • Comment

    The king is dead, actually

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    According to ɫTV (14 July), Lord Foster’s proposals to construct a 200-mile canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea have the approval of King Hussein of Jordan.

  • Comment

    While were on the subject

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Can I bring to your attention to an advert that your publication carried for “DHL exel supply chain”. The operative in the photograph is standing on the rail of the crane, which I understand is not good health and safety practice. Also the advert goes on to state DHL are ...

  • Comment

    Time for a new revolution

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Great Britain is a land covered with urban sprawl, most of it built more than 50 years ago when nobody considered valuing the environment they needed to exist in. The huge loss of energy from inefficient buildings is an embarrassment on a global level, as we initiated the Industrial Revolution.

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    Responsible journalism

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s ɫTV provided particular amusement to my wife who has taken to flicking through the latest issue while we enjoy breakfast together on a Saturday.

  • Comment

    A for effort

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Your article “CABE: Half of schools are badly designed” (7 July, page 14) gives the wrong message and the report you refer to from CABE is a little out of date, failing as it does to acknowledge the substantial work recently done to improve school design.

  • Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?
    Comment

    In the detail

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • Comment

    Me, a cynic?

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    I have often been forced down the lawyer path of giving construction dispute advice with the preamble of “on the one hand, and on the other”. I was thus somewhat surprised to read that Helen Garthwaite (23 June, page 80) has the confidence to take a firm view.

  • Comment

    Call in the taxman

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Energy efficiency taxation would be an incentive to effect a programme of energy savings.

  • The wrong trousers: Was ɫTV reckless?
    Comment

    Did ɫTV slip up?

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    What an excellent example to us all of health and safety awareness the front cover of ɫTV (14 July) is. So much so that I hardly know where to start. However, I will try:

  • One strictly non-alcoholic smoothie coming up …
    Comment

    Beyond the liquid lunch

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations on an insightful article (14 July, page 28) that starts to peel away the layers covering drug and alcohol abuse on site.

  • Comment

    Mass appeal

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    I was very interested in the measures required to upgrade a 100-year-old house in respect of thermal efficiency (7 July, page 44).

  • London Zoo’s Komodo Dragon House: Not all green roofs measure up to its fierce standards
    Comment

    Not-so-green roofs

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Your article on green roofs (30 June page 70) states that “roof systems based on sedum blankets no more than 30 mm thick are the most common specified in the UK”.

  • Comment

    How refreshing

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    How good to see the reinvigorated ɫTV, and to continue to have one serious and resourceful reference for everyone in construction. Congratulations and good wishes for the future!

  • Comment

    The fixed-price fix

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Having read Colin Harding’s article on the curse of the virtual construction sector (16 June, page 29) I must congratulate him on telling it like it is.

  • I saw these builders on a roof in Portugal – I guess they were trying to break their way in. A bit worrying as our car parked on the street outside was covered with rubble and dust.
    Comment

    The front door’s probably easier …

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    I saw these builders on a roof in Portugal – I guess they were trying to break their way in.

  • Once this arch only admitted boats; now it accepts paying visitors. But what is it?
    Comment

    In the detail

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • Comment

    Care for the elderly

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    I support ɫTV’s logic in tackling the existing housing stock.

  • Comment

    An anorak writes

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    A big thumbs-up to the new magazine format.

  • 99% campaign
    Comment

    An ad mans dream

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    As a managing director, homeowner, father and global citizen, I applaud ɫTV for its 99% Campaign, and pledge my support to it 100%. The key issue though is that buildings don’t cause carbon emissions, people do.

  • 99% campaign
    Comment

    Time for a stock-take

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    I am certainly of the opinion that we must place greater emphasis on the need to improve the energy efficiency of the existing building stock (23 June, page 30).