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Correction
In your article 鈥淢ini-cost model: Extra care housing鈥� (9 November, page 62), the image of PRP鈥檚 scheme is that of Goodwin Court in the London Borough of Barnet, which is actually unrelated to the cost model in the article and is also not an example of the 鈥渆xtra care鈥� model ...
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Atkin Chambers
On the way out of the office Sarah, the news editor, calls me over. 鈥淭ell them about Roger Stewart,鈥� she says. Come again? 鈥淩oger Stewart 鈥� Multiplex鈥檚 barrister.鈥�
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CommentThe new PR
Blogs are used increasingly by companies to find out what their customers are thinking. So why not log on to 黑洞社区鈥檚 new sustainability channel and give Phil Clark a piece of your mind?
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CommentThat鈥檚 better 鈥� but not by much
The RIBA standard form has been revised and two particularly irksome clauses have been amended. But don鈥檛 go overboard. It is still biased in favour of architects. 鈥楪o bespoke鈥� seems to be the message
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ROK Build Ltd vs Harris Wharf Development Company Ltd
The claimant was constructing a primary school and twenty four 1-3 bedroom flats for Harris Wharf. The contract was the JCT Standard Form of 黑洞社区 Contract, With Contractor鈥檚 Design 1998 Edition.Practical Completion occurred on 12 July 2005, and the professional advisers met in April 2006 in order to discuss the ...
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CommentNever mind the ethics, look at the price
It鈥檚 an open secret that stone products imported from the third world are often made using child labour. So why doesn鈥檛 anybody do anything about it? Greg Verhoef has an explanation 鈥�
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Different strokes for different folks
In 2006 the Housing Corporation allowed private firms to apply for its grants 鈥� and spared them much of the red tape that housing associations have to deal with
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CommentLearn the trumpet
The construction industry鈥檚 public image has seen worse days, but there is much that still needs to be done. Communicating our successes and enthusiasm to the public will bring about the change that is needed
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CommentBespoke and be damned
In the latest of our series on tricky terms and perplexing conditions, Helen Garthwaite looks at bespoke clauses to extend a contractor鈥檚 right to payment 鈥� and why they are likely to fall down
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CommentHansom The age of chivalry
A world in which property developers still offer their coats to damsels in distress, a knight of the realm remembers how to behave appropriately, and an architectural practice whisks its staff off to Paris
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Barker MCT
鈥淟et鈥檚 meet at Nineteen Below in the Crowne Plaza hotel 鈥� we did the fit-outs for the place,鈥� Melanie told me.
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CommentA bad case of the wobbles
We鈥檝e known for some time now that 2008 is unlikely to be as golden a year as 2007.
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CommentRoot of the matter
I was intrigued by the construction of the courtyard and buildings around the giant plane tree at the Larmenier & Sacred Heart primary school in west London (2 November, page 58).
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Reasons to be fearful
The article 鈥淏ig drop in construction orders puts housing plans at risk鈥� (9 November, page 12) reported that an 8% fall in construction orders and 12% decline in the housing sector has cast doubt over whether Gordon Brown will hit his ambitious housebuilding targets.
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Not in front of the readers 鈥�
Will Alsop and Roger Madelin may well have used the words credited to them (9 November, pages 11 and 27) and we may well all work in a robust industry and hear them every day.
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CommentWorth their weight in what?
There is a consensus now that the quality of adjudication is fine, but the same cannot be said about the cost of hiring an adjudicator. Just ask the clients that got a bill from one chap for 拢30,000
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Tell us all your secrets
Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act could apply to your PFI contracts, and that all the obvious reasons why it might be a bad idea to disclose such information may be without force?