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CommentThe legal fall-out from scrapping BSF
Claims could soon start from companies left out of pocket by the government shredding of BSF
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Bovis Homes reports 6% rise in house sales
Housebuilder boosts land bank in first six months of year with purchase of land for 4,400 new homes
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NewsGreen light for £93m Laing O'Rourke hospital
Health secretary Andrew Lansley pledges £70m government funding for stalled West Cumberland Hospital
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NewsSign up for Building's third cycling track day
The construction industry¹s annual cycling challenge is returning to Herne Hill Velodrome on August 12th
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CommentNever mind the counter claims
If I owe you £20 and you owe me £10, can I ask an adjudicator to ignore my debt and make you pay up? This eternal problem has just been tackled once again by the courts
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A bit of revision
The rules on the taking of evidence in international arbitration are used as a benchmark by tribunals. So you probably want to know what the impact of recent revisions will be
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards: Living proof
It takes more than a numbing recession, constrained sites and nimbyism to stifle creativity in housing design. Martin Spring reviews the winners of this year’s Housing Design Awards
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FeaturesWaiting for High Speed 2 to get here
The coalition has given its backing to a high-speed rail network in the UK, but there is a lot of uncertainty over how, when and in what form it will arrive
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FeaturesEDF nuclear boss talkin' about his generation
Alan Cumming wants your help building EDF’s third-generation nuclear power plants, which, if all goes to plan, means four multibillion-pound projects and more than 150 contracts up for grabs
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FeaturesEnergy from waste: 'A wonderful place to be'
There’s going to be a £2bn-a-year building boom in energy-from-waste plants, like this one, over the next 15 years. Kristina Smith finds out how to turn base matter into gold
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Take it to the bridge: Where engineering meets music
If only our ears were as big as parachutes, we’d be able to hear the built environment, says Chris Wise, and then we’d discover that a building can be every bit as musical as a violin
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CommentQuentin Shears: Tinker, tailor, soldier, quantity surveyor
“But is there anything from a meeting of our partners that would interest the Kremlin?”
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CommentHansom: Rave on
Now the sun’s out, everyone’s up for a good time, whether it’s a Wild Sex Party, a boat party, or John Dodds’ one-man, one-vote Lie Around In The Sun All Summer Party
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Charles, Camilla and Ike
The prima donna architects who hurl abuse at Prince Charles (most recently regarding his Chelsea Barracks intervention) ought to have a very careful read of the excellent articles written by Ike Ijeh in Building (page 12) and Camilla Cavendish in The Times, both published on 2 July
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Lose the legal battles
Having read that the largest construction lawsuit in UK history has finally reached an end (“Final whistle for £253m Wembley row”, 25 June, page 9), it never ceases to amaze me that contractors still have inadequate project control measures in place to avoid such situations
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Low carbon needs high spending
The UK Committee on Climate Change has reported that the 8.6% reduction in carbon emissions last year was mostly due to the economic downturn, with only a small fraction being a consequence of green policies
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CommentThe birds and the bats
Building’s piece on biodiversity was really superb and extremely useful (25 June, page 58)
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Q+A from Building Answers
Building’s Forum regulars offer their advice on problems. This week: extending a shared roof
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CommentTurning heads
This scaffolding attempt in the Derbyshire village of Shirland is not only perilous for the user, but was proving a serious hazard to all the motorists turning to gawp