Opinion – Page 319

  • Comment

    Estate agents expect housing prices to fall

    2010-07-14T13:11:20.013Z

    Latest RICS survey shows more estate agents are expecting price falls than rises

  • Comment

    Demonstration vs Democracy at Parliament Square

    2010-07-13T19:10:59.553Z

    It's not the protestors who are to blame for turning Parliament Square into an eyesore, it's the mayor.

  • Comment

    BSF: In defence of Tim Byles

    2010-07-12T17:01:00Z

    Some government officials look like they may be attempting to pin blame for the latest BSF fiasco on Tim Byles. If they do, they could be making a huge mistake.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    BSF: A sorry end

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    BSF is dead, slain this week by Michael Gove and the Treasury

  • British Pavilion
    Comment

    Shanghai diary: What China taught the CIOB

    2010-07-09T17:05:00Z

    CIOB members took in the magnitude of China’s construction growth at its recent AGM in Shanghai

  • Tony Bingham
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    Never mind the counter claims

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    If I owe you £20 and you owe me £10, can I ask an adjudicator to ignore my debt and make you pay up? This eternal problem has just been tackled once again by the courts

  • Comment

    A bit of revision

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The rules on the taking of evidence in international arbitration are used as a benchmark by tribunals. So you probably want to know what the impact of recent revisions will be

  • Eddie Izzard
    Comment

    My digital life: David Hitchcock

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    What’s on your iPod?

  • Comment

    Take it to the bridge: Where engineering meets music

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    If only our ears were as big as parachutes, we’d be able to hear the built environment, says Chris Wise, and then we’d discover that a building can be every bit as musical as a violin

  • Sausage Mole
    Comment

    Quentin Shears: Tinker, tailor, soldier, quantity surveyor

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    “But is there anything from a meeting of our partners that would interest the Kremlin?”

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom: Rave on

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Now the sun’s out, everyone’s up for a good time, whether it’s a Wild Sex Party, a boat party, or John Dodds’ one-man, one-vote Lie Around In The Sun All Summer Party

  • Comment

    Charles, Camilla and Ike

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The prima donna architects who hurl abuse at Prince Charles (most recently regarding his Chelsea Barracks intervention) ought to have a very careful read of the excellent articles written by Ike Ijeh in ɫTV (page 12) and Camilla Cavendish in The Times, both published on 2 July

  • Comment

    Lose the legal battles

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Having read that the largest construction lawsuit in UK history has finally reached an end (“Final whistle for £253m Wembley row”, 25 June, page 9), it never ceases to amaze me that contractors still have inadequate project control measures in place to avoid such situations

  • Comment

    Low carbon needs high spending

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The UK Committee on Climate Change has reported that the 8.6% reduction in carbon emissions last year was mostly due to the economic downturn, with only a small fraction being a consequence of green policies

  • Otter go green
    Comment

    The birds and the bats

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    ɫTV’s piece on biodiversity was really superb and extremely useful (25 June, page 58)

  • Comment

    Q+A from ɫTV Answers

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    ɫTV’s Forum regulars offer their advice on problems. This week: extending a shared roof

  • Safety blunder
    Comment

    Turning heads

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    This scaffolding attempt in the Derbyshire village of Shirland is not only perilous for the user, but was proving a serious hazard to all the motorists turning to gawp

  • Rupert Choat
    Comment

    Can school bid costs be recovered?

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Procurement processes are usually set up to give the procuring body no duty to pay bid costs if schemes don’t go ahead. But there may be particular circumstances on certain contracts that could justify bidders recovering their bid costs

  • Beverley Firth
    Comment

    What the death of the regional strategy means for housebuilding

    2010-07-08T11:26:00Z

    In the absence of a new planning package from the government, the revocation of the RS could slow housebuilding yet further

  • Comment

    Are we on the edge of a second house price crash?

    2010-07-08T15:12:00Z

    Is the market heading for a protracted decline or will prices stabilise and hold or continue to creep up from the trough of a year or so ago.