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Risky business
The directive to remove the legal obligation on architects trained in the EU to register with the Architects Registration Board, as long as they are working in the UK on a “temporary or occasional” basis, is due to be brought in by 20 October (31 August, page 12).
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The shame game
Your health and safety blunders are all well and good, but just publishing them will not improve safety in the construction industry.
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CommentMysterious ways
This week, we reveal the Shard developer’s early attempts to gain help from a higher power, Barratt seeks the assistance of a brick disguised as a baby, and a minister flounders at the Fabian Society
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FeaturesWhen will they ever learn?
The government is trying to renew 3,500 schools in 15 years using teams of confused officials, increasingly resentful contractors and a system that combines surreal bureaucracy with huge wastes in time and money. Eleanor Goodman and Katie Puckett explain why Building Schools for the Future continues to underachieve
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FeaturesIsis neutron facility
Thomas Lane goes to south Oxfordshire to find out why you need very big tweezers to pick up very small objects …
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelope
The cost of a building’s envelope has increased 10% over the past 12 months, and a similar rate is forecast for the next two years. Gardiner & Theobald reports on the costs and lead times of curtain walling, roofing and stone construction and restoration
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NewsSixty feared dead in Vietnam bridge collapse
Up to 60 construction workers are feared dead and 100 others are missing after a bridge collapsed in southern Vietnam on Wednesday morning.
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Timms warns about cost of energy targets
Stephen Timms, the construction minister, has admitted that the government will not meet its climate change targets without cost to British industry.
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NewsGetting to the point
The tallest of five buildings in Land Securities’ £220m New Street Square development in the City of London achieved practical completion last week.
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New funding date for Shard
The developer of the Shard is aiming to announce confirmation of funding for the project by the end of the first week of October, Building understands.
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Twister in the tale
Councils in the Midlands and the South are assessing damage to property after gale-force winds and tornadoes swept through the region on Monday.
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Akenhead elevated
Robert Akenhead, a barrister with Atkin Chambers and a longstanding Building columnist, has been appointed a judge of the Technology and Construction Court.
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Correction
The worker injured on a Mace site last week was a subcontractor, not an employee, of the company (21 September, page 13) and was injured, not killed, as captioned.
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NewsTeam colours
Foster + Partners has revealed these designs for the £175m redevelopment of the Nou Camp stadium in Spain, home to Barcelona football club, which will increase its capacity from 98,000 to 106,000.
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Barratt boss warns credit crunch will affect housing
Mark Clare, chief executive of Barratt Homes, warned this week that there was likely to be downward pressure on housing volumes and price inflation as the credit crunch takes its toll.
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Bids in for colleges framework
Architects and consultants this week submitted final bids for work on the Learning and Skills Council’s framework for building and refurbishing further education colleges.
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Project bank account set to be launched
Rider Levett Bucknall has developed project bank accounts for use in the construction industry.