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Archive Titles300 firms back diploma
A recognition scheme has been set up to identify and reward companies that sign up to help deliver the Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment (C&BE), the new qualification for 14-19-year-olds launched in September.
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Waterman designs Workplace6, Sydney's greenest office
The Darling Island masterplan for Sydney Harbour has thrown up a new contender for the title of Australia’s greenest building.
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Archive TitlesCircus act
At Bristol’s new Cabot Circus retail centre, a ‘floating’ glazed gridshell roof cleverly maintains shoppers’ illusion of being outside.
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RMJM's Tony Archibald on partnership agreements
Partnership agreements smooth the progress of projects and can help avoid litigation
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Alexandra Anderson on the implications of using independent experts to resolve disputes
Don’t use an independent expert to resolve a dispute if you’re not prepared for the decision to go against you
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Case notes...from Ann Wright
Need a refresher course on variations, subcontract liabilities and the law on boisterous bullocks? Read on...
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Archive TitlesAnother string to Mcalpine’s bow
Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has handed over the keys to the new home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
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Paris appointment
Hilson Moran is to act as environmental consultant on the Horizons Tower, Paris.
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CarbonBuzz teams up engineers and architects
Engineers and architects will be able to compare the energy consumption of their designs with similar schemes under an initiative from CIBSE and RIBA, called CarbonBuzz.
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Now risk has become an ugly reality
The current financial difficulties show how things have changed over the last 25 years. Back then, a chairman of a leading but financially troubled Midlands engineering group gave me some advice.
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CarbonBuzz: RIBA/CIBSE energy benchmarking website
A new online database of buildings’ energy and emissions performance, before and after completion, will compare the predictions with reality – and give engineers the chance to teach architects a thing or two about sustainable development.
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Archive TitlesThe big lift: raising the industry's prospects
As the credit crunch bites deep into the construction industry, Elaine Knutt asks people from all areas of the sector for thoughts on coming through the slump and out the other side.
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Archive TitlesBouygues signs for ‘council’ homes deal
Bouygues UK has secured a ground-breaking contract to build the first homes planned by a new public-private partnership in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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Brother, spare a few dimes to build in these troubled times
With the collapse of investment banker Lehman Brothers last month, the fearful imaginings of the media pundits peaked. BBC Radio 4 imagined another Wall Street Crash, focused on US and Asian finance markets.
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It's not enough, Mr Brown
The government’s £1bn energy efficiency strategy will have little impact on reducing carbon emissions from existing housing stock, judging by a report published earlier this year by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Kingfell's Paul Bryant explains railway station exacuation strategies
Creating evacuation policies for two London rail hubs, used by 240 million people a year, highlighted the challenges of safeguarding large groups of people. Paul Bryant looks at the problems and solutions
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HVCA picks Burton
Martin Burton, the commercial director of Canterbury-based HW Sladden Commercial, has been elected HVCA vice-president for 2008/09.
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Is it time to review Percy Waldram's daylight calculations?
A re-enactment of Percy Waldram’s jury experiments of the 1920s suggests it’s time to rewrite the lighting rules.
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Care in communities
BRE is developing BREEAM Communities, a version of its environmental assessment standard that it hopes will persuade developers to look at sustainability across a community, not just individual buildings.