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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
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FeaturesThe 2010 consultants’ salary guide
This year’s Building/Hays Construction & Property pay guide tells a familiar story of cuts and freezes. Roxane McMeeken finds out who’s getting by on economy baked beans, and why employers might be about to get a lot of belly aching
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CommentShepherd Construction vs Berners: Freezing orders
Can a freezing order be used to assist a claim for payment?
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Rogers on Chelsea Barracks: 'I wish we had come second'
Richard Rogers tells Cabe’s Paul Finch what went wrong with Chelsea Barracks
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NewsShapps secures £140m for stalled HCA schemes
Housng minister says government will find at least £140m to fill the £610m gap in the HCA finances
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NewsIndustry left waiting on housing and BSF
Government to clarify key spending decisions within weeks, as Osborne spares capital expenditure from fresh cuts
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Comment50 Years of London Architecture Exhibition
A short-lived London Festival of Architecture Exhibition provides a must-see account of Modern architecture in London.