Opinion 鈥� Page 293
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CommentLondon鈥檚 the place to be
The London commercial sector is strong, but the regions are still weak
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Use your common sense
I found Alan Harris鈥� concerns that adjudicators rarely seek advice from specialists on matters of law or programming interesting (11 February, page 25).
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Water works
In your article about the new station over the river at Blackfriars (28 January, page 44), you refer to the role of the PLA in making the use of the river a possibility for moving materials to and from the site.
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Let's not be hasty
Unfortunately the knee-jerk reaction to a crisis described in 鈥淩ok and Connaught force repairs in-house鈥� (11 February, page 12), is typical of housing associations, and is driving the provision of an in-house repairs team.
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CommentMore inflation worries as plant hire prices bounce back
Data from ONS shows year-on-year 2.2% rise in Q4 2010
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CommentA new-look Middle East: threat or opportunity?
Could a rise in people power prompt a shift in what is built in the Middle East?
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Comment3XN to design Swedbank's Stockholm headquarters
V-shaped structure will house 2,500 office workers
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CommentVinci appoints regional director for Yorkshire
Keith Shivers will take charge of nine BSF contracts worth 拢170m
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CommentTime for a construction revolution?
SMEs are getting squeezed by the big boys and no-one鈥檚 taking up their cause
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CommentValue discount payments are counterproductive
Passing pain down the supply chain is harming the whole industry
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CommentArchitectural and engineering firms see drop in turnover in 2010
Turnover is now 8% less than the peak in 2008
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CommentCabe - why it must keep the name
好色先生TV this week that design quango Cabe鈥檚 name may ultimately be up for grabs in its long-heralded merger with the Design Council prompts that age-old question 鈥� what鈥檚 in a name?
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CommentLocalism: A recipe for building homes in the wrong places
Real powers will help economic growth, but limited localism could just further seal off leafy suburbs to development
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Credit where it's due
Your leading article on the rebuilding of Blackfriars station (28 January, page 44), was both interesting and informative.
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Stranger than fiction
I write regarding your piece on architects in film, (28 January, page 34). It was entertaining but, being limited only to American architects, remained firmly in fantasyland
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Budget for buildings
The Scottish budget deal agreed by MSPs this week is not the budget for recovery that the building industry has been crying out for
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Keep the receipts
If the government is concerned that they are overpaying for the services supplied by major contractors (building.co.uk, 9 February), a good start would be to investigate the legality of the bulk order discounts that are obtained from suppliers.
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