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Look to the past to learn about contracts that go walkabout
Alistair Nicholls (NCE 17 May) is probably correct in his comments about the embarrassment of the ICE not being able to control its own contract, when they pride themselves about how efficiently they control their clients’ contracts.
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Letters: High Speed 2 is a black hole for taxpayers’ money
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Letters: The unravelling of HS2 accelerates
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Letters: The perils of redistributing water around the country
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Letters: More storage key to water supply
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Letters: Can engineers measure up?
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Letters: At Seaton it’s now a question of: ‘For whom the till tolls?’
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Letters: Government funded Thames Hub could be an improvement
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Letters: How should we encourage equality in construction firms?
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Letters: Thames Hub: visionary plan or recipe for more congestion?
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What is the ethical approach to runaway population growth?
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Letters: Land value tax could boost infrastructure spending
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Letters: Balance in the boardroom is still a long way off
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Letters: Time for the balance on campus to reflect the realities of real life
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Letters: Low profile, high value water grid is as vital as high speed rail
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Letters: Will civil engineering survive as a respected profession in the UK?
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Letters: Is there a strategic case for investing in increased fire protection for bridges?
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Letters: Why video-conferencing won’t cut demand for high speed rail
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Letters: Homes at risk from flooding must be allowed to take out insurance
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Letters: Don’t let the rail lobby get the upper hand with HS2
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Letters: Are energy from waste plants sustainable?
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Letters: Political dithering over energy production threatens the UK
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Letters: Engineers are giving up initiative on project funding
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Letters: Nuclear is welcomed by some but not all of us in the engineering community
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Letters: A fresh look at some tried and tested thinking
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Letters: Who should pay to insure homes against flooding?
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Letters: Heathrow’s issues join the queue
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Letters: Permeable paving not only answer to saving water
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Letters: Anatomy of failure at Hammersmith Flyover
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Letters: Let’s not be seduced by the glamour of a new hub
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Letters: Why skew Scottish transport spend so much towards roads?
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Letters: Is reversing points the best way to prevent another Grayrigg?
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Letters: Is PFI the best way to trigger infrastructure-led recovery?
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Chatter over the Chilterns covers a great deal of ground
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Letters: Fossil fuels must still have a vital part in the energy mix
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Letters: Should the Highways Agency set a cost cutting example?
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Letters: where would you build another airport in the North?
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Letters: ICE must reflect its members’ views on high speed rail
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Letters: What does Lord Sugar know about engineers’ business skills?
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Letters: Civil engineers must reassert and redefine their place in society
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Letters: We should be leading the low carbon debate, not others
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Letters: Multi-disciplinary engineering approach to energy is needed
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Letters: We cannot afford to ignore the UK’s water issues
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Letters: Let schools of engineering grow organically to become what we need
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Letters: Crossrail 2 can unlock High Speed Two's potential
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Letters: We need an open debate about wind power costs
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Letters: Frost induced water mains failures come as no surprise
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Letters: More robust kerbing could have prevented Oxshott rail crash
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Letters: Perhaps high speed rail is more suited to France?
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Letters: Look back to history for Pakistan flood answers
