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NewsColchester to sue T&T over Viñoly scheme
Colchester council hopes to recover “substantial funds” from Turner & Townsend over its role in the town’s disastrous Rafael Viñoly-designed art gallery
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CommentIn absentia: Jean Shaw vs James Scott Builders
This case is all about missing persons, missing contracts, missing drawings and missing deadlines. So no surprise when eventually it all turned around a missing email
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NewsUK's first Passivhaus education building
An agricultural college in Kent gets a Passivhaus certified teaching facility
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T. Clark profit drops 20% in 'tough' environment
Services group sees half yearly revenue and profit fall but order book expands by a third
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £80m Stevenage schools deal
Hertfordshire County Council names contractor as preferred bidder on schools PPP
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Man dies in dumper accident on Rok site
Dumper truck overturned on site of new bottling plant in Fife
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FeaturesProcurement refurbishment
When budgets are tight, refurb can seem the ideal solution. But how do clients and contractors allocate risk and manage outcomes? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon looks at the options
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CommentCountry matters
For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city
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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. ’Children! You can’t fight. This is an NEC contract!’
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CommentIt ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74ºC annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers
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CommentWonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn’t hesitate to praise St Pancras station. But he finds post-war housing repetitive and deviant
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Swedish lessons
It was interesting to read the discussion on building.co.uk about how to harness the “sustainability values” of the 2012 Olympic Games (Green expertise in danger of being lost, 27 July)
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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CommentHitting the roof
I have asked Building for a right to reply to Luke Wessely’s column “Land of the Dachdeckermeister” (6 August, page 25), in which someone with a clear vested interest in a particular form of roofing wanted to suggest that its choice was a no-brainer
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Enforcing no set-off clauses
In her otherwise excellent column on the 2010 RIBA forms of architect’s appointment (A return to a simpler time, 13 August), Rachel Barnes predicts that a court may decline to enforce the no set-off clause
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Controlling interest
Doom and gloom followed the latest Construction Trade Survey’s reports. But this forecast of a bleak future should be seen as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and challenge the way the industry works
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NewsTrouble at the top
We’ve wandered off site for this week’s picture, which is of civil engineering interacting with a diverted bus on the Portobello Road in west London. Our thanks to Nabil Hanafi for snapping it
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CommentDefine ‘late’: City Inn vs Shepherd
The case of City Inn vs Shepherd has already created debate over how delays should be treated. It also has much to say about JCT80’s treatment of when instructions are due
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Accidents will happen … in adjudication
After getting on for 500 enforcements, one thing is clear: an adjudicator is expected to make mistakes. But that is the fault of the system - and it’s outweighed by its benefits