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Responsible journalism
Last week’s Building provided particular amusement to my wife who has taken to flicking through the latest issue while we enjoy breakfast together on a Saturday.
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A for effort
Your article “CABE: Half of schools are badly designed” (7 July, page 14) gives the wrong message and the report you refer to from CABE is a little out of date, failing as it does to acknowledge the substantial work recently done to improve school design.
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Mass appeal
I was very interested in the measures required to upgrade a 100-year-old house in respect of thermal efficiency (7 July, page 44).
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Time for a new revolution
Great Britain is a land covered with urban sprawl, most of it built more than 50 years ago when nobody considered valuing the environment they needed to exist in. The huge loss of energy from inefficient buildings is an embarrassment on a global level, as we initiated the Industrial Revolution.
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CommentDid Building slip up?
What an excellent example to us all of health and safety awareness the front cover of Building (14 July) is. So much so that I hardly know where to start. However, I will try:
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While were on the subject
Can I bring to your attention to an advert that your publication carried for “DHL exel supply chain”. The operative in the photograph is standing on the rail of the crane, which I understand is not good health and safety practice. Also the advert goes on to state DHL are ...
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Call in the taxman
Energy efficiency taxation would be an incentive to effect a programme of energy savings.
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Me, a cynic?
I have often been forced down the lawyer path of giving construction dispute advice with the preamble of “on the one hand, and on the other”. I was thus somewhat surprised to read that Helen Garthwaite (23 June, page 80) has the confidence to take a firm view.
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FeaturesLevel best
The winners of this year’s Housing Design Awards, announced yesterday, range from tall blocks of flats to low-rise terraces. Martin Spring reports on the latest exemplars of high-density urban housing
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FeaturesWe dont shout from the rooftops’
… in fact Balfour Beatty’s boss shuns all industry and media attention. But here Angela Monaghan coaxes Ian Tyler into revealing what makes the man with the biggest job in construction tick.
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CommentA twist in the tale
Here’s the story of a hot-shot construction lawyer, his fussy wife, a builder who was never there, a bizarre contract and a house in the country …
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CommentJust call me Rambo
When did mediation get taken over by tree-huggers who refuse to discuss the merits of the case? Well, no more. If it stops daft cases ending up in court, then mediators should be free to take a more aggressive approach
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Clarifying clause 6
Michael Reynolds and Uma Ramani Does the employer’s obligation to insure for loss and damage continue into the defects period or end at completion? A clause in the JCT minor works form has confused the matter, but now the Court of Appeal has stepped in …
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CommentFashionable caps
State your case — The Master of the Rolls has made it clear that he wants to control court costs in civil cases. Here, Steven Bate says there are already signs that cost caps are starting to come into play
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CommentNuclear fission
Construction bigwigs may be gung ho about Blair’s nuclear vision for Britain, but among the grassroots there’s considerable disquiet. Nick Jones gathers fierce opinions on both side of the web divide
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FeaturesIrish architect heads for the UK
Dublin-based practice O’Donnell + Tuomey wins flagship Sheffield retail scheme
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Crossrail station architects asked to rethink designs
Ealing Broadway and Maidenhead among stations panned after four-month assessment
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NewsPit of pleasure
Architects CZWG and Holder Mathias’ proposal for this £300m leisure resort in South Yorkshire has been granted planning permission.