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NewsShuttleworth given crucial schools role
Cabe asks architect to recruit 30-strong panel to ratchet up standards
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FeaturesCountry focus: Germany
In the first of our country-specific economic profiles, we look at Germany, where the market has grown for the first time in 10 years. Meinhard Rudolph and John Atkins of EC Harris report
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The big ask
In our series of head to heads, new members of professional institutes put tough questions to their leaders. Here, Andrew Link asks Michael Brown, deputy chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Building, about the old boys’ network and why anyone should join the CIOB
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FeaturesNow all this is the client’s problem ...
As Building’s many health and safety blunder photos show, the UK’s construction sites remain hairy old places to work. What has changed is that the CDM regulations are about to put more responsibility for policing them on the employer. Katie Puckett finds out just how much – and how five ...
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FeaturesCalling all green gurus
Zero waste, carbon negative buildings and throw in a flood contingency plan while you’re at it – sustainable construction has become a thriving industry within an industry. Its pioneers are shaping the future and their skills are much in demand. Building asked a selection of the industry’s leading lights to ...
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FeaturesReligious conversion
Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.
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CommentIf at first you don’t succeed ...
A lot of firms seem to think that if they lose an adjudication, they can try again with a different adjudicator. Ah, but what happens when they finally win and the other side won’t pay?
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CommentGet off the sofa
The zero-carbon revolution starts at home according to a Building blog, so switch off that energy-devouring plasma TV or risk being shopped to Alex Smith’s web police ...
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CommentSpace race
There’s a yawning chasm between the type of homes developers are building, and the homes people want to live in. So how do we bridge the gap – and provide that all-important storage space?
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CommentParty poopers
Multiplex boss Martin Tidd misses his own bash, while Richard Steer travels half way around the world to attend one he doesn’t want to. Thank goodness Geoff Irvine knows how to celebrate
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FeaturesThe severed alliance
Back in 2004 it looked as though social housing firm Mears had picked a dream team. Bob Holt and Stuart Black, the bruiser and the wunderkind, were together at the helm of a City darling. So why did Black walk?
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CommentA great leap forwards
Over the past nine months it has been easy to dismiss David Miliband’s carbon rhetoric as that of a fairytale emperor convinced that his invisible clothes were the finest in the land.
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NewsBRE unveils five-year plan to double turnover to £80m
Surprise expansion programme to include restructuring, organic growth and acquisitions
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News‘Urban village’ to be built on former military training site
John McAslan to oversee conversion of Woolwich listed buildings and construction of new-build
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Amec and Costain hit by multimillion-pound losses
Contractors post losses of £109m and £62m respectively following last year’s writedowns
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NewsIndustry praises plan for carbon reduction law
CPA and RIBA welcome bill that would bind government to 60% emissions cuts by 2050
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NewsRogers pulls out of Olympic velopark
Richard Rogers Partnership has ruled itself out of any large venues at the 2012 games
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CommentThe green mile
The road to a sustainable future is long and hard, with tricky obstacles and high costs along the way. Here Tom Bloxham suggests how the government could lead by example
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CommentPulling a fast one
Tony Bingham A court in Scotland was asked to give summary judgment against a builder. The judge refused because he said it was too soon to make a binding decision. What would the adjudicator have done?