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Comment‘It’s like partnering with teeth’
BRIEF ENCOUNTER — A new form of project mediation was launched this week to nip problems in the bud. We brought together its inventors and industry experts to discuss the pros and cons
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Who’s the real winner here?
I deliver training courses to clients, main contractors and specialists, so I hear a range of views on power relations in the industry (“Who calls the shots”, 24 November).
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Define your terms
The figures you quote (“CH2M boss says Olympics will top £12bn”, 1 December, page 10) have nothing to do with the current debate over the costs of the Games. The higher numbers relate to work outside the Olympic Delivery Authority’s scope.
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Jeremy Gardner Associates
We were delighted to win an LABC award for Chapelfield shopping centre. But we and CNC Building Control were disappointed by the description of the project in Building (20 October, LABC awards) for two reasons:
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The third way
Jeff Brown claims third-party rights don’t work (27 October, page 54), but his objections come down to not liking the particular third-party rights in the JCT contract.
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NewsEverything is illuminated
An army of electricians lit up architectural sites in Manchester last week in a “guerrilla lighting” event organised by BDP Lighting, a division of architect Building Design Partnership.
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FeaturesTypical. You wait years for a report setting out government policy on vital areas like housing and transport and then three come at once …
Ahead of Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget report on Wednesday, the government released a series of weighty tomes on policy strategy. Here David Blackman and Mark Leftly provide an at-a-glance guide to them
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FeaturesHarmonic progression
RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together
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CommentWhat do we do now?
To make it as an architect these days, you have to be a networking ‘archipreneur’ with a degree in economics. What happened to just designing things?
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Oh my god, I didn’t
Ah, but the sick lump of fear in your stomach tells you that you did – and now you have to go to work and cope with the fall-out. Lydia Stockdale and Katie Puckett report on how to make sure your Christmas party antics don’t ruin your career …
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CommentWonders & blunders
Vicky Smith picks two Birmingham buildings, one as sharp as a Sabatier knife in an Armani suit, the other an aquarium that combines fear with disappointment …
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Back issues: December 1956
What’s in a name? From Calder Hall to Windscale and, finally, Sellafield
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House price thermometer
The housing market refused to cool in November with housing prices up 1.4%, taking the average house price to £172,185 from £169,623 in October. The annual rate of growth was 9.6%.
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NewsMcColl’s big idea
Stewart McColl, the chief executive of listed architect SMC Group, this week set out his global ambitions at a company conference.
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NewsKelly prepares to launch Labour’s green flagship
Code for Sustainable Homes, plans for zero-carbon housing and PPS26 all set to be unveiled
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NewsThe Brits can lead the way on expo
HOME FRONT — A successful British expo will depend on a holistic approach to regeneration
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Land Secs to work closer with specialists
Francis Salway, chief executive of Land Securities, has said he wants to forge closer links with specialist contractors.
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Employers could control £3bn training budget
Industry training body ConstructionSkills has welcomed recommendations in a government skills review to give employers control of £3bn of public funds for skills training.