All Building articles in 7 September 2018
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Hansom: Full of surprises
Staff at Edinburgh Zoo change their clothes for an unexpected reason, I’m misled by a fancy-sounding project, and an apartment with prestigious links proves hard to sell …
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Hull council unveils £130m development
Council will start to look for contractors from early next year
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Online poll: Is offsite the answer for the education sector?
This week’s poll: Is offsite the answer to upgrading the country’s crumbling school estate?
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Roundtable: digitally inclined
Technology has yet to fully filter through to many parts of the construction process. Debika Ray reports on a roundtable by Bluebeam discussing how to motivate companies to digitalise
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There are two main barriers to the widespread use of offsite construction
Once these are overcome, perhaps, finally, we can stop debating the potential benefits of offsite and start counting on them
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Legal: It’s up to you
Parties may contractually allocate concurrent delay risk as they wish, write Emily Leonard and Hannah Gardiner
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Legal: It’s a win on penalties
The approach to any failure to send a timely payless notice has at last been questioned
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Image of the week: A safe bet
The historic art deco Littlewoods building in Liverpool suffered a huge fire
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Schools: Learning to love modular
Offsite construction can offer an answer to England’s struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports
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School daze: What’s happening to the government’s building plan?
Although the government has committed to spending £23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant a recent fall in capital spending could be for construction
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Social skills
The collapse of Carillion should lead to a renewed focus on the positive impact that construction businesses can have on society
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Legal: Say what you see
If a party has taken a conflicting stand in a related case, an adjudicator may be obliged to disclose those case documents
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Hansom: It’s a rollercoaster
Heads spin and stomachs churn at Lendlease’s new £100,000 VR facility, while Crossrail avoids admitting to a bumpy ride of its own. Meanwhile in Brexitland, it’s a relief to know that all is as well as ever …
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Leader: Education, education, education?
As new academic year starts, for the schools construction sector there is worry about the amount of work coming onto their books
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Sketch of the week: Crossrail station, Paddington
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by senior architect Pablo Sanz Claramunt at Weston Williamson + Partners
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Cost of Crossrail overrun unknown, say scheme leaders
TfL has admitted the delay is set to cost it £20m in revenue
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Tracker: July 2018
Activity, employment prospects and demand are all showing slower growth, with the cost of labour, materials shortages and financial constraints on the rise.
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From the archive: 2012
Spending on schools, or lack of it, is once again making the headlines in Building
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School building slowdown fears as spending slumps by £1bn
Firms in the sector report construction work is drying up as government slackens the pace of delivery
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Building utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement
When Dudley College wanted to build a £10m Centre for Advanced Building Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement – an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns