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In a word – No!
Apologies for upsetting all the patriots who have been sticking a fiver on England down at William Hills but we have no chance I’m afraid. “Rubbish!” you may scream as you look through your English rose tinted specs whilst dribbling a pint of Stella down your St. Georges t-shirt.
Read on for 10 good reasons…
Building a website is a tricky business, but in today’s world many people make snap judgements about a company based on the quality of their website – a sub-standard website can lose you business. Our resident webmaster lays out a series of common “dos and don’ts” for any business embarking on a website project – questions to ask yourself, design guidelines, and pratices to avoid.
Isn’t it amazing to think that just five years ago virtually all surveyors took pencil and pad, tape measure or possibly a laser measuring device out into the field and spent several hours measuring up sites, buildings and all related detail before returning to the office to redraw the detail into their CAD package. Or is it? How much has really changed?
The retention system originated in the railway construction sector in the 1840’s. The vast and rapid expansion of the railway network led to a high demand for construction workers and the subsequent creation of a large number of small construction companies. Inevitably a lot of these newly formed companies became insolvent. The rate at which such companies were becoming insolvent caused delays and cost’s to the clients that employed them. Therefore the client’s started deducting monies from payments to ensure there was a fund available to them to help defray the cost of completion and thus retention was born.
