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NewsBDP plans parliamentary wind turbine
Wind turbine could be installed in grounds of Houses of Parliament in a bid to reduce energy consumption.
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NewsLondon city academies set to breach £25m budgets
Consultants say average cost of capital's 60 planned schools has risen to £30m because of problematic sites.
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FeaturesDangerous liaisons
Bucknall Austin is about to join the list of consultants that have set sail on global ventures with foreign partners. But some of these have sunk amid accusations of rule breaking, client nabbing or just plain boredom. Josh Brooks asks whether the game is worth the candle.
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FeaturesRevved up Wright
UN Studio's Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart takes the spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and adds about 1000 horsepower
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CommentWas Ellis right on Wallis?
The Wallis adjudication turned on whether expert evidence was relevant, and whether there was time to investigate it within the 28 day limit. This is how it went
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CommentGet your head round this
Jack Lemley is to run Olympic projects under the NEC3 standard form, about which there is ‘massive ignorance' in the industry. So how can it wise up?
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CommentAll fall down
Doug Masson is a construction lawyer who happened to be walking past Jurys Inn hotel as 15 floors of scaffolding collapsed. Here he recalls the tragic events of that day …
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CommentA lesson in life
A lawyer's education is not complete until he has some work done on his house, whereupon he discovers that contracts matter less than a pint with the governor …
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The last word
I was very disappointed that the contents page in Friday's magazine (21 April, page 4) styled me as a "professional architect hater". It is patently obvious from the debate with Rab Bennetts that I am not.
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Taking issue with Rab Bennetts
I must congratulate you on the publication of the debate between Colin Harding and Rab Bennetts. I wish to raise one issue and make one objection.
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NewsIt's raining men
My wife and I were in Tallinn, Estonia, last summer when we saw these three lads re-roofing a building in the old town - soft hats and soft brains, and the rain was pouring down.
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The view from The Edge
If sustainability is on the National Curriculum, isn't it about time it became a central tenet of the government's schoolbuilding programmes?
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The rules of engagement
In "The limits of trust" (7 April, page 70), Gillian Birkby stresses the need for two things in contracts for the procurement of designers' services. The first is "some way of identifying exactly what services the designer is to provide", and the second is a mechanism for identifying who is ...
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Looking up
This quarter, Davis Langdon reports on an optimistic construction market, with prices accordingly on the rise … Plus a look at the effects of the Finance Bill, and the latest materials price trends
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Multiplex's other court case
AS WELL as its battle royale over Wembley, Multiplex is involved in dispute over a £100m scheme in London's Docklands
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Bulldozers move in on Ground Zero
Work has begun on the £3.5bn project to build the replacement to the World Trade Centre in New York.
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NewsNursing a reputation
Consulting engineer Whitbybird is providing structural engineering services on the HLM's Ellsmere nursing home in London.