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NewsRichard Rogers Partnership to change name in April
The famous practice will be known as the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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NewsA bed of thorns
If you were the victim of a bed delivery mix-up would you remain sanguine or serve a writ? Our legal columnist considers the options and sees parallels in the construction industry
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NewsOlympic stadium scaled back amid fears over cost
Design will include only one covered stand and remain athletics venue as masterplan unveiled
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FeaturesEnergy rating issues: The window – a 21st century solution
Last week Building revealed that air-conditioned buildings could face a D rating when non-residential energy certificates are introduced next year. So does this mean the end of air-con? Or will tenants simply ignore the certificates when choosing their offices?
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NewsPFI specialist Nightingale hit by healthcare slowdown
Architect posts pre-tax loss of £105,000 and warns that it will be ‘lucky to break even’ this year
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Broadway Malyan to design rest of Greenwich village
Architect has been picked to tackle 1,650 homes in exemplar millennium community
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NewsOlympic stadium scaled back amid fears over cost
Design will include only one covered stand and remain athletics venue as masterplan unveiled
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NewsBlowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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CommentBarratt’s big deal is just the start
The increasingly dramatic world of housebuilding took a spectacular plot twist this week.
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Comment
Without a care
On 9 January 2001, Ian Gray, a fire alarm installation engineer and employee of Fire Alarm Fabrication Services Limited (FAFS) fell through a skylight window in the roof of a building at Victoria Station. He died as a result of the injuries he sustained.This was an appeal by E H ...
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Features‘How could this happen in a civilised country?’
Last September, Liliana Alexa’s son Michael died while he was washing his car – the first member of the British public to be killed in a tower crane collapse. Angela Monaghan explains why a public register of crane safety checks is needed to ensure that he is the last.
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CommentA skip of one’s own
If a skip has your name stamped on the side, that’s your skip, isn’t it? And anyone who takes it should jolly well give it back, right? Well, not always, as this cautionary tale demonstrates
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CommentDangerous drop
Sites are safer than they were in 2002, but the next set of HSE statistics will show that things are getting worse. The causes are difficult to pinpoint but the solutions are easier to find
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CommentDistinctly average
Below par performances this week from the officials at the TCC and a Scottish recruitment consultant. At least Mace’s attempts to join the celebrity party circuit are more than OK...
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NewsNG Bailey hunts YouTube pranksters
M&E contractor launches investigation after footage of workmen setting each other alight is uploaded on You Tube
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NewsNG Bailey hunts YouTube pranksters
M&E contractor NG Bailey has launched an investigation to identify workers who were captured on video footage setting each other alight.
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CommentDoing what it takes
The Olympics will only truly succeed if the powers-that-be overcome their intellectual timidity and attack the problem with passion, imagination and a whole lot of money
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CommentA modest proposal
Tony Bingham Rather than trying to sort out disputes when they occur, wouldn’t it be easier to just write clear and fair contracts so that rows don’t occur in the first place?