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CommentPause for thought
As we complete another lap of the calendar, our diarist stops to consider the effects of time on the vanity of human wishes, before moving smartly along to a story about Keith Clarke and nipple piercing
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Planning applications: November 2006
This month the South-east maintains its lead and Aspire Defence is the biggest client
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CommentHomage to Helsinki
As a regular visitor to Finland for more than 40 years, I was taken aback by Amanda Levete’s ill-informed comments on Finnish culture and design (24 November).
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Don’t fiddle
Your article regarding the implications of the Colindale fire (1 December) rightly stresses this is no time for fiddling.
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Two questions
Two issues for further discussion arise from the Colindale fire. The first is the extent to which steel-framed buildings are different from timber. I am watching a steel-framed retirement home go up locally and there is a lot of timber in the secondary structure.
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To answer the first question …
Stephen Robinson of the London Fire Brigade says a fire in a concrete or steel building isn’t an issue.
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Devilish details
The zero carbon initiative proposed by Gordon Brown (8 December, page 10) looks impressive, with “every new home to be zero carbon by 2010”. His statement is backed up by the fiscal incentive of zero carbon homes being exempt from stamp duty. This is a bold statement, however like many ...
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Setting the record straight
Your story “Marks Barfield starts work on Olympic spike” (8 DecembeR), was inaccurate and misleading.
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CommentDanger is my bread, death my butter
Thanks to Bob Wright from Bignell & Associates for this one.
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CommentGreen house effect
Ruth Kelly explains how she plans to meet the environmental challenge by awarding stars to sustainable homes
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CommentReflections and predictions
Wembley remained incomplete, third-party rights grew in popularity and we awoke to the importance of sustainability last year. So what will 2007 hold?
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CommentEnd this travesty
In these topsy-turvey times subbies think they’re designers, QSs act like lawyers and architects let builders specify. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we stuck to our job descriptions in 2007?
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Picking over the bones
A contractor paid a subcontractor £70,000 for light fittings. This should have been passed to the supplier, but the subbie went bust. So can the supplier get the contractor to pay twice?
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CommentWorlds apart
STATE YOUR CASE — Tony Bingham says arbitrators, judges and adjudicators do the same job, but the timescale of adjudication makes the process markedly different, argues Nick Henchie
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Employment lawyers to be kept busy in 2007
Construction firms are set to be hit by an increase in employment litigation in 2007 because of changes in the law including the smoking ban, age discrimination legislation and the introduction of the CIS tax scheme.
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Features‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects
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FeaturesThe 2007 Building horoscope
Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...
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Features‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.