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CommentWhy is Part L so bad?
Pretty much everyone in the industry agrees that saving energy and cutting carbon emissions from new buildings by 20% is a Good Thing.
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Government set to scrap Decent Homes initiative
Communities minister considers refocusing £19bn flagship housing policy to achieve wider regeneration goals
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Schools agency launches £2bn framework
Schools delivery body Partnerships for Schools has launched a £2bn framework to build flagship city academies.
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Part L may halt use of fan coil air-conditioning
Industry observers have warned that the new Part L of the Building Regulations could make it impossible for building control officers to pass schemes with standard air-conditioning systems.
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Drug tests at T5 stepped up
Heathrow Terminal 5 client BAA has stepped up drug testing on the flagship site after random checks suggested that many workers could be working under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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NewsThe spirit of '66
Sixty-six days before the World Cup kicks off, football was the theme of the 2006 Building Awards on Tuesday at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
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Harrington tackles problem of subsidence at Wembley
South side of stadium is believed to have sunk 16 mm - although Multiplex insists no subsidence has taken place
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Commons motion calls for payment practice reforms
An early day motion has been tabled calling for improved payment practices in construction before the Olympics.
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NewsThe Brighton Eye
Architect Marks Barfield has unveiled designs for a 183 m tall observation mast to be built on the site of the West Pier in Brighton.
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Alsop partner leaves after SMC takeover
Reg Marsh, the managing partner at Will Alsop's practice, has left in the wake of the takeover by SMC Group, writes Vikki Miller.
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Taywood manager poached
Developer Native Land has poached project manager Peter Chapman from Taylor Woodrow after the residential firm's decision to cut back its mixed-use team.
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Westminster council dismisses property officer
Westminster council has dismissed one of its officers and set up a committee to monitor its corporate property department after an investigation by accountant PriceWaterhouse Coopers.
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NewsHackney land set to be sold as developer drops arts centre
Developer Roger Wratten in talks to sell land after bowing to local pressure over Broadway Market project
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Max Fordham holds up wind farm HQ as failure
A sustainable energy project that was supposed to set the standard for zero emissions buildings has performed so badly that the consultant team is using it as an example of how not to proceed.
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First Bath Spa action resolved
Contractor Mowlem and Bath and North East Somerset council settled out of court this week in the first of what is predicted to be a series of legal actions over the troubled Bath Spa scheme.
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Twenty-seven councils bid for UK's first supercasino
Twenty-seven local authorities are bidding for the right to build the UK's first supercasino, it emerged this week.
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NewsAtkins mourns victims of Bahrain boat disaster.
Consultant sends counsellors to Gulf state after 10 of its staff and family members die in pleasure trip tragedy.
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FeaturesThe nightmare has begun
The industry is in a state of blind panic over Part L, the revised energy regulations implemented yesterday. Thomas Lane explains what we now can and can't build - and why we should all keep panicking …
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Dubai migrant workers win right to have union
Construction workers at the heart of Dubai's building boom are to be given the right to organise and form trade unions after unrest over pay and conditions.
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NewsGleeson looks to housing for future growth
104-year-old contractor sells two more businesses as it refocuses on housing and regeneration