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CommentHansom: Pomp and circumstance
While architects have had a jolly time parading in period dress and tucking into sumptuous desserts, it’s been a week of rotten luck for democracy, Capita Symonds and a soccer squad or two
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FeaturesElectrical Contractors Association: Precedent Johnson
Diane Johnson is the ECA’s first woman president.What’s she got planned for her year at the helm?
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CommentDuty of care: Who cares?
A recent case has tried to clarify when a duty of care arises. But it remains an area blighted by arbitrariness and uncertainty
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CommentPage turners: Society of Construction Law essay prize
The winners of this prestigious prize have some clever things to say about delays and quantum meruit disputes. Their papers are all must-reads
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Buying a business: Gods of small things
If you’re planning to buy a business in our fragile economy, you need to know what you’re getting. So use lawyers who will scrutinise every little contract
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FeaturesCosts and challenges of biodiversity planning
Dormice are protected, frogs need water and bats return after removal – just some of the challenges in dealing with British fauna and flora
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CommentNo to nuclear nobbling
Regarding the story “Lend Lease bans Bovis from £40bn nuclear sector” (11 June, page 9): how can another country have the right to influence what this country wants to do?
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Don't be caught out
The news that the communities department office failed an inspection undertaken under its own fire safety laws shows how careful all those affected by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order must be to ensure that fire risk assessments for their premises are adequate and appropriate for their occupation
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Passive protest
It’s about time the government realised that the basic principles promoted by the Passivhaus system (’Low-energy retrofit: Heating a house with a towel rail’, 4 June, page 44) are far superior to either those of BREEAM or Code for Sustainable Homes - less bureaucracy, less cost, less complexity and much ...
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Q+A from Building Answers
Building’s Forum regulars offer their advice on problems from access in a shop to objecting to an extension
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CommentWhere rigans dare
Andrejs Trabo in Riga, Latvia, spotted this “mountain climbing champion” demonstrating an unbelievably stupid solution to the problem of not having a long enough ladder
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FeaturesGreen FIZZ: Coca-Cola's Spanish HQ
Coca-Cola’s new Spanish HQ is refreshingly eco friendly and even boasts a LEED ’gold’ certification
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CommentNick Raynsford: It’s an inept beginning
So much for turning Britain into ’a nation of homebuilders’. Rather, the coalition seems hell bent on stopping the housing recovery in its tracks
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CommentQuentin Shears: The winning mentality
“We should put the usa game behind us. We can’t do any worse against Algeria”
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FeaturesMillennium projects: 10 years of good luck
From the wobbly Millennium Bridge to the infamous Spinnaker Tower and the runaway success of Tate Modern, fortune smiled on some millennium projects more than others. Ike Ijeh celebrates their 10th anniversary
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NewsParty politics: Building's terrace reception at the House of Commons
Building’s annual terrace reception at the House of Commons was the setting for Mark Prisk’s first formal address as construction minister
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FeaturesCan you arrange these tiles to make a coherent company?
Bovis UK has just lost its third chief executive in four years, its relationship with its Australian parent is difficult and talk of a sale is in the air. Sarah Richardson looks at what is going wrong
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Britain’s grand strategy
Open mike Find a map of the UK, spread it on a table, examine its rail links and ports, then consider how they could be upgraded to make the whole country work better. Like this, for example …
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Building buys a pint … for MPG Shreeves
Building’s meeting with MPG Shreeves has an inauspicious start