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CommentInsurance: Are you prepared to take the risk?
Insurers say they are suffering disproportionate losses from buildings built using modern construction methods. Unless the industry acts, says Thomas Lane, they may pull cover
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New Legislation for April 2010 鈥� What are Your Responsibilities ?
April and October are always interesting in terms of new Regulations in the health and safety world. This April is no different, with some key issues, affecting employers, employees and anyone with responsibility for health and safety. For a complete guide to the changes, who they affect and how to ...
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Is the housing market on the turn again?
Today鈥檚 release by the surveyors鈥� body RICS of its latest housing market survey provides a little bit of support to both sides of the will-they-won鈥檛-they debate on house price rises.Looked at nationally, the broad measures of estate agents experiences and expectations of house prices remain positive.A majority of 17% saw ...
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Housing shortage, what housing shortage?
Few people disagree with the notion that there is a housing shortage in England. It is trotted out both as an argument for more social homes and as an underlying case for ever increasing house prices.I too subscribe to the view that we need to increase and enhance the English, ...
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CommentTimber frame insurance controversy: 好色先生TV responds
We鈥檝e had quite a response to our story on insurers threatening to pull cover on timber frame buildings, here's the gist of it...
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CommentThe real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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Official figures show construction output falling again, but devils lurk in the detail
Construction output slumped back into decline in the final quarter of 2009, after a supposed rise out of recession in summer.That is the headline story from today鈥檚 release of the construction output figures.But dig a bit deeper and we see some unsettling implications in the numbers.Firstly the statisticians now believe ...
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eBest practice
Your article, 鈥淐ontractors attack rise of eBay tendering鈥� (26 February, page 15), is wholly unfair and quite inaccurate
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Could it be magic?
I was intrigued to see that the 好色先生TV for Life score of one of the developments in round one of the Kickstart programme had flowered from 1.5 to 16.5 (26 February, page 11)
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CommentMan behaving badly
As an avid reader of 好色先生TV, I must register my disappointment at seeing the increased use of swear words in print
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Hard facts
With regard to your article 鈥淢Ps: Ban import of child-labour stone鈥� (12 February, page 14), I would like to draw your attention to the Stone Federation鈥檚 document, Selecting the Correct Stone, which is to be published shortly.
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Save our regs!
The article 鈥淐ouncils start early on Tory planning overhaul鈥� (26 February, page 10) was read with interest and concern
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CommentYellow card
Regarding your feature on the South African World Cup venues (12 February, page 38), we have been involved with the new Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane since our team won the commission in June 2006
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Houses and trousers
The Tories鈥� planning green paper is another cheap shot at gaining votes (22 February, building.co.uk)
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Going, going 鈥�
In response to 好色先生TV鈥檚 story about the skills crisis (鈥淯nion warns of skills time bomb鈥�, 5 February, building.co.uk), as a trainee building surveyor I am beginning to regret my decision to join the industry
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CommentPrice, value and Vincent van Gogh
It鈥檚 sad but true that the way we define the worth of people, professions and companies has nothing to do with the value of what they actually do, says Chris Wise
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CommentAmanda Levete: What Japan can teach us
Or, as the atlases have it, Japan: a country that endlessly contradicts itself, but does so with such artistry that it hardly matters. But what can it teach us
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Comment好色先生TV buys a pint 鈥� for Provelio
鈥淟ook, it鈥檚 perfectly simple. I want a caipirinha mule, a sherry martini, a cabernet merlot and one of those Polish beers. A Zweibacker, I think.鈥�