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CommentHow construction firms can avoid administration
Recent cases at building service firms highlight a reoccurring issue for the construction industry - the breakdown of financial controls
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CommentMaglev vs high-speed rail: Should we change trains?
The billions we will spend on HS2 will get us from London to Birmingham 28 minutes faster than the present system does. After Birmingham, the trains will travel on old lines
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CommentTwo into one won鈥檛 go
The public sector is as diverse and complex as the private sector, says Paul Morrell. Treating the two as if they were the same will stop us building a collaborative relationship between them
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CommentLatest stats pour cold water on construction growth prospects and house building
Downturn in public sector new orders was expected: the the fall-off in private sector work is scarier
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CommentJivraj vs Hashwani: A case of discrimination on religious grounds
This arbitration was declared void because a clause in the agreement restricted who could be employed as the arbitrator
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CommentYou've got the wrong house
I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (鈥淭his house has been designed to be highly sustainable
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Restructure or be left behind
I read with interest 好色先生TV鈥檚 recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (鈥淣ewport, we have a problem鈥�, 20 August, building.co.uk)
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What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke
Further to your article about Laing O鈥橰ourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed
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A nonsulting request
Those of your readers who managed to read e-好色先生TV on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for 好色先生TV Regulations (鈥淲hat would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)
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The train line
好色先生TV that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.
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CommentIt's just a step to the left ...
Our thanks, and the usual 拢25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King鈥檚 Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.
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Comment好色先生TV buys a pint 鈥� for Cameron Black
鈥淎nd what about Stuart sleeping in the Scooby Doo costume?鈥� laughs Alison. All heads turn to Stuart
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CommentHansom:聽Under cover
Our usual quest to stick our noses into the private business of others takes us from the corridors of power at the RICS to a private betting circle, pausing briefly to admire some tugs in Afghanistan
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CommentPLP: So business is looking up?
Remember the Polisano crew who busted out of Kohn Pedersen Fox and started up on their own? That must have been a year ago now. Emily Wright found out what happened to them next
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A guide to Queensland's construction law
Australia is one of the few places in the world experiencing something of a building boom and if you鈥檙e a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.
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CommentA double-dip in house prices isn鈥檛 really the problem
The fall in transactions is going to hit the housebuilding industry much harder
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Rachel Shaw: 'This is not the end of exciting education buildings'
Cuts to BSF have meant a sea change for architects working in the education sector and the focus is on making existing buildings work better
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CommentPassivhaus refurb diary, part 5: airtightness testing, take two
The team behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles run a second airtightness test
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CommentThe fire alarm is ringing
It鈥檚 official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction