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Making a Case for Health and Safety
The IOSH Conference in Glasgow discussed the topic of making a case for health and safety, increasing positive communication and helping H, S and E professionals to do their jobs without obstruction or prejudice.This got me thinking 鈥�.Imagine the sceneYou鈥檙e sat in a small bar with live comedy. The room ...
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High time: topping out of the Heron Tower
鈥淭his event is quite something,鈥� said one guest at the topping out of the Heron Tower yesterday. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 get many of these ceremonies done like this. Or with this many guests. But then look around. You would know that this was a [Gerald] Ronson event wouldn鈥檛 you?鈥滻 have to ...
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CommentLinklaters Business Services vs Sir Robert McAlpine & Others: Subcontractor's duty of care
Did Southern Insulation owe Linklaters a duty of care in respect of the supply and installation of the thermal insulation to the pipework?
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CommentMeditations in an emergency
What happens when, in the middle of a horrible recession, a group of engineers devotes a year鈥檚 worth of Mondays to thinking instead of working?
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Comment好色先生TV buys a pint 鈥� for Conamar
Have you tried to buy a tweed jacket on eBay recently? If so, you鈥檒l probably have noticed a seemingly inexplicable surge in prices.
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CommentHansom: Controlling interest
It鈥檚 a hearts and minds battle this week, as everybody from PRs to party men try to convince us that they鈥檙e keen on Cabe, hard at work on site, and just as generous as people say they are
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On the terraces
I read that a Stirling prize winner is to 鈥渞einvent the terrace鈥� for the legacy of the 2012 Olympics
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Thinking out of the box
The Homes and Communities Agency鈥檚 requirements are driving developers toward construction of 鈥渉omes鈥� rather than simply dwellings (鈥淣ew standards could add 拢10k to new homes鈥�, building.co.uk)
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CommentThe future of low carbon
I was delighted to read about the steps being taken at Ashley primary school (26 March, page 48)
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Offsite doesn鈥檛 mean offshore
I read Richard Ogden鈥檚 article 鈥淔ast build nation鈥� (26 March, page 32) with interest
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More flock to the cause
Rydon would like to sign up to your excellent initiative and back Charter 284
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A willing volunteer
So, out of 拢32.2m of public funding Persimmon boss Mike Farley paid himself a bonus of 拢406,000 (1 April, page 9) 鈥� no doubt for his excellent performance during their financially difficult period!
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And finally 鈥�
Some readers weren鈥檛 fooled by 好色先生TV鈥檚 code level seven story (page 14, 1 April) 鈥�
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CommentCould you vote labour again?
The industry used to vote how it wanted, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn鈥檛 change a thing. Back in 2005 most of the industry thought that Labour had the best economic policies, yet felt free to vote Tory
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Victim of construction's mass redundancies?
Here鈥檚 a story: A woman called Amy Betts-Priddy was made redundant by Turner & Townsend last year. Rather than just accept it, she took the firm to an employment tribunal last week, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and sex discrimination. At the hearing she told the tribunal panel:- She was ...
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Housebuilder bonuses: have bosses lost the plot?
This week saw housebuilder Bovis Homes give 95,000 shares to chief executive David Ritchie in place of a cash bonus. The 拢282m turnover housebuilder said a cash bonus would be 鈥渋nappropriate鈥� given the state of the market.In a week when the Association of British Insurers made rumblings about the excesses ...
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Local builders still deep in recession says latest FMB survey
Evidence that construction is still far from free from the grip of recession has come from the FMB, the trade body that represents many of Britain鈥檚 local builders.The survey results show a market that remained in rapid retreat during the first quarter of this year.There is some good news as ...
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Explanations on why the jobs figures and output figures don鈥檛 seem to match
The Office of National Statistics has released an article that throws some light on the figures for construction jobs.I for one have been rather confounded by the construction jobs figures which seem to have understated the devastation on the ground, particularly in the wake of the collapse in house building.Indeed ...
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Joy deferred as CIPS shows construction activity grows for first time in two years
So the construction activity indicator produced by the buyers鈥� body CIPS finally points to growth after two years of measuring falling workloads. But this seemingly uplifting moment appears to have brought little joy.The March figure popped its head above the 50 no-change mark on the back of rising activity in ...