Opinion – Page 309

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    Because you're worth it

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Chris Cheshire has hit the nail right on the head with his comments about low quotes (17 September, page 10)

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    Game on

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    If ever there was a lesson on preparation and pre-planning, the Delhi Commonwealth Games provides the most apt

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    Long live RSLs

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Oh dear Mr Shapps! What an ill-conceived comment about housing association “fat cat” pay

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    In the steps of Duncan Wallace

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Rudi Klein asserted that “traditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence”

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    Green gauge

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    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 “greenest government ever” gets a reputation for being all talk and no action

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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

  • Tom Bill
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    Rok and a hard place

    2010-09-30T15:17:00Z

    How much more bad news can the company take?

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    Falling mortgage approvals indicate gloomier times

    2010-09-30T13:02:00Z

    House price indices are less helpful for forecasters when housing transactions are low

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    Great Danes

    2010-09-30T10:21:00Z

    Learning from Copenhagen: Denmark presents an alluring example of holistic sustainability, dynamic design and civic debate that could hold lessons for us here.

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    Passivhaus refurb diaries, part 6: fitting the windows

    2010-09-27T12:28:00Z

    The team behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles explain the significance of the high performance windows

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    Spending cuts: Education was just the start...

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger

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    Waste and water markets: Filling the gap

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    In our latest infrastructure market report we explore the hidden worlds of water and waste

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    My digital life: David Exeter

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    What was the last thing you bought online?

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    Hansom: Tough sells

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The Conservative housing minister at the Lib Dem party conference, a strangely familiar ’iconic’ development in Dubai and a super-luxe London apartment with its own secret tunnel

  • Richard Steer
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    Not with a bang but a whimper

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    We’re fighting our corner with all the eloquence and ferocity of a strangled budgie, and as yet more thousands are laid off, no one is there to so much as protest at our fate, says Richard Steer

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    Wonders & blunders

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Political commentator Adam Bienkov applauds one raw display of power on the bank of the Thames and hisses another on the edge of Green Park

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    Citywatch:  Morgan sindall’s big gamble

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Construction analysts spent most of the week marvelling at the speed with which Morgan Sindall had slapped £28m on the table for the social housing arm of Connaught

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    Is Eric Pickles responsible for the fall in housing approvals?

    2010-09-21T14:28:00Z

    Is it a coincidence that since the communities secretary scrapped regional targets the planning data shows a sharp decline in approvals?

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    It's been an education: Dispatch from Remodelling Education Spaces event

    2010-09-21T13:20:00Z

    This week’s conference was a chance for the industry to discuss ways forward in an uncertain post-election world

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    Lib Dems pick a row over education

    2010-09-21T11:39:00Z

    Passions run high at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool as they debate free schools and the ’new’ academies