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Solar hot water
Velux has launched a solar hot water system. The company, which is known for its rooflights but also markets itself as a ‘daylight engineer’, says the system could provide up to 70% of homes’ hot water requirements.
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FeaturesHow they made it: Will Alsop
How they made it - Do things your own way, work for someone you respect, steer clear of venture capitalists, and don’t hurry lunch … Will Alsop is full of advice for budding architects. Over a leisurely afternoon drink, he shares some of it with Roxane McMeeken
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Features30 St Mary Axe: A gherkin to suit all tastes
Having dominated London’s City skyline for four years, the Gherkin is now appealing to a wide range of occupiers. Shame about the windows, though.
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FeaturesNew Orleans reconstruction: We shall overcome
Three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city is still in ruins and 40,000 people are homeless. The government has abandoned reconstruction in favour of commercial development, but the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, determined to stop their district becoming an industrial park, have engaged charities, architects ...
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FeaturesSite canteen competition: And Britain's best-fed builders are...
In December, Building launched a contest to find the best site canteen in the UK. With the shortlist whittled down to three, Katie Puckett joined our intrepid judges as they worked their way through the finest ‘grill-ups’ and porridge in the land. It was a tough job, but eventually a ...
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CommentWhen the fix is in
There’s nothing wrong with prequalification in theory. Alas, there’s no shortage of things wrong with it in practice. Greg Verhoef explains how the system works
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Comment10 years of the Construction Act
Ten years after it became law, the Construction Act is a boisterous, perplexing triumph. Here’s its biography. Overleaf, Rudi Klein and Dominic Helps add their views, and we hear from one man who went through the mill and survived
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A sunnier picture
I was somewhat bemused by your recent article on the lack of demand for zero-carbon housing (4 April, page 68-71), because it almost completely contradicts our experience of supplying solar photovoltaic systems to homeowners and housebuilders.
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All open and above board
I read with interest Liam Holder’s letter (4 April, page 38) suggesting that my article on SGS vs Barratt (14 March, page 70) breached some kind of “assumed” confidentiality.Although I acknowledge the general assumption is that adjudication is private and notionally confidential, I have yet to see any law that ...
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CommentIt’s housing, stupid
What’s the one thing that affects our personal wellbeing, our personal wealth and our personal future more than any other? And what do you think might happen to any government that threatens it?
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Building buys a pint … at the NSPCC pub quiz
Right. Here we go. The NSPCC pub quiz. A low-pressure affair you might think for the hacks at Building magazine, but there is professional pride at stake here.
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NewsHousebuilders' salary survey: Money or your life
With the big bucks of the private housebuilding sector less forthcoming than they were six months ago, many people are beginning to notice the better work-life balance offered by registered social landlords. Jon Neale reports on the findings of Building’s second annual housebuilders’ salary survey
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Building Regenerate
The best information on housing and regeneration is now available online at Building's new Regenerate web channel, www.building.co.uk/regenerate.
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FeaturesBaroness Vadera: Construction minister's first interview
Three months after becoming construction minister, Baroness Vadera has already been accused of not making much of an impression. In her first interview since taking the job, the former ‘axe-wielder from the Treasury’ tells Emily Wright how she plans to be a very forceful presence in the industry indeed. Portraits ...
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CommentWeb watch - Cover me!
On Building.co.uk this week we have had running coverage of the OFT investigation, one of the biggest stories of the year, and we’ve devised new ways to keep you informed. Alex Smith reports
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CommentMy favourites … Lorna Markham
www.moveflat.comMy landlord is selling my house, so I'm looking for a new place to live. This flat hunting site is more intelligible than many others.www.horselatitudes.co.ukThis blog is written by my friends who search out new and old music, films, technology and design, and post about what they like. A bit ...
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FeaturesCost model: Schools
It’s a critical time for BSF. With the programme’s first schools just open and large-scale building starting, local authorities will begin to find out if the effort has been worthwhile. Simon Rawlinson and David Long of Davis Langdon review the issues of design and delivery