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Setting it straight
Your feature concerning the “Cladding crisis” (6 October, page 42) refers to sources which appear to be out of date in regard to the state of play in the UK market, specifically in relation to our company, Schneider GB Ltd.
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Don’t rely on the sun
I read with interest your article “What’s new under the sun” (6 October, page 22) having carried out a similar limited pilot survey last winter for Circle Anglia Housing Association, in which we compared four houses fitted with panels and four of similar house types without panels, including lifestyle adjustments. ...
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The specialists are coming
Thank you for publishing my email (6 October, page 38). I must however express my disappointment that key elements were edited out:
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Broom with a view
Thanks to Tim Gough of Austin Winkley & Associates for this picture, and for also sending the contractor’s health and safety policy, which includes the line, “All employees are encouraged to contribute actively towards a work environment which is free of accidents and ill health”. Quite.
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FeaturesUnmasking Mr Morello
Remember that odd letter you got from an unknown Italian? This is who sent it
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NewsLibeskind brings Eden to North
World Trade Centre architect Daniel Libeskind is working on a £75m Eden Project-style scheme in north-west England, it has emerged.
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Use Olympic standards on all public projects, urges CPA
The Construction Products Association has become the latest trade body to lobby construction minister Margaret Hodge to ensure that all public sector projects abide by best practice standards set for the 2012 Olympics.
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Features‘The more the OGC is decimated, the more celebration there will be’
The Office of Government Commerce spent the first six months of this year undergoing a review that questioned its very existence. Whether it lives or dies is unknown. What is certain is that it will never be the same again.
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FeaturesBuilding buys the popcorn
Yes, we’re branching out. Inspired by the success of ‘Building buys a pint’, we took a group from consultant WSP to see Al Gore’s eco-documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lydia Stockdale forked out for the Butterkist …
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CommentDongtan-on-Thames
THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE — Shanghai’s eco-city is creating a precedent that developments like the Thames Gateway ignore at their peril
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FeaturesThe firm that repackaged Ikea
M&E consultant GDM is transforming the furniture giant’s sustainability record
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FeaturesA league of their own
Feeling excluded from all those testosterone-fuelled corporate football matches? Lorraine Cushnie pulled on a netball bib and met some women who have taken matters into their own hands
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Why not work in . . . East Anglia
Hays Construction and Property propose a change of scenery
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NewsCrest Nicholson launches high density prefabricated brand
Components can be assembled to build units from one-bed apartments to four-bed houses
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Bellway aims to break through 7,500 unit barrier
Bellway aims to increase housing completions by 5% next year, after a rise in pre-tax profit in its end of year results.
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Gateway housing targets
The government is preparing tougher targets for the quality and quantity of housing in the Thames Gateway.
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Davis Langdon to improve specification documents
RIBA Enterprises and consultant Davis Langdon Schumann Smith (DLSS) have announced a collaborative venture to push the National Building Specification (NBS) into international markets and improve it in the UK.
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Wembley settlement in sight
Wembley National Stadium Limited and contractor Multiplex were on the verge of settling their dispute about the stadium as Building went to press.