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Hips energy assessors earn less than £10,000
Most energy performance certifiers inspect just over one home per day at a rate of £30-45
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CommentCDM regs: A question of principal
State your case — Defra seems to be instigating the use of the title of principal contractor in both SWMP regulations and CDM 2007. Is this joined-up thinking or just plain confusing, asks Gillian Birkby
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NewsHutton: Britain to be number one nuclear nation
Secretary of State says UK firms should lead development of next generation nuclear technology
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Worker killed on new Delhi airport site
Construction worker Jamuna Ram was hit by a road roller truck
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NewsView from the rooftop
Getting the numbers to stack up when you adopt an off-site solution is a tricky task. Colin Mitchell of Osborne proposes a few routes to success.
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Farrell to tackle Thames scheme
Architect Terry Farrell and Partners has been parachuted in by Southwark council to help rethink the embattled Potters Fields scheme next to the London mayor’s headquarters.
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NewsWhat to remember: Bathroom pods
Five steps to the perfect bathroom pod. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg offers some advice on managing design, delivery and installation
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Bovis Lend Lease bags £130m green Sky project
Broadcaster plans to put its sports channel in new low-carbon west London headquarters
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Comment
A bad time for house prices to go negative
Nationwide released its latest house price figures today showing the a 1.1 per cent rise over the past 12 months. However, it also revised its forecast for 2008 down from no change to an overall fall.This will please neither estate agents nor house builders as they put Easter behind them ...
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NewsHigh anxiety
This photo of a worker in Dubai comes from Cor Benjamin, who says: “There is no evidence of any safety equipment and I estimate he was working on about the 17th floor. Perhaps he had a can of Red Bull in case he needed wings …”
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FeaturesPeter Ryan: Have you seen this man?
He’s been trained by the FBI, works closely with Chinese intelligence and is bloody elusive when it comes to getting him photographed for magazine interviews. Karolin Schaps tracks down Peter Ryan, the London Olympics’ secret policeman
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CommentExistential angst
If Heathrow Terminal 2 ceases to exist, what happens to Terminals 3, 4 and 5? And if the BBC believes Lord Digby Jones to be a lager-swilling teenager, does it make it so?
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Duggan Morris
The staff of Duggan Morris are chatting excitedly about their competition win of a visitor centre at Liverpool Bay as I arrive. That is, they would be had this meeting occurred last week.
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FeaturesManslaughter: Bosses beware
From 6 April, if a worker is killed in the workplace, it’s no longer the men in suits from the HSE that will come knocking on your headquarters’ door. Instead, warns Michael Glackin, it’s more likely to be the police, who will be asking you some serious and searching questions
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FeaturesWhat’s your project of the year?
On Tuesday, Building’s awards judges will chose their project of the year from the eight buildings pictured above. But which one would get your vote? Why not log on to Building TV to decide …
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FeaturesMichael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett school – London’s first Building Schools for the Future project – succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There’s probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
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FeaturesTragedy at Tesco
In September 2006 a three-year-old girl was killed when the roof of a Tesco store in Turkey caved in. The retail group blamed the collapse on ‘extreme weather conditions’, but 18 months on, Building has obtained a report filed by senior figures at Tesco soon after that cites poor construction ...
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FeaturesCamp Telefónica
The design of a huge telecoms business park near Madrid borrows heavily from a Roman military camp
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Comment
A fundamental flaw
The proposals to review Building Regulations regularly every six years looks like a throwback to the seventies to me (I am a former building control officer).