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Take some responsibility …
In her article “It’s not their job” (11 November), Ann Minogue has shot herself in the foot by stating: “But surely one-off clients, which make up most customers, cannot be blamed for what happens on site?
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Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation
I was very pleased to be consulted for the article on disease risks to schoolchildren (4 November).
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Alexander grates
I having just read Gus Alexander’s article “A Waste of Energy” (28 October), and it’s had a fundamental effect on my view of the way we go about construction in the UK.
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Jestico’s first
For the record, YRM was not the first architect to transform itself into a not-for-profit trust (4 November).
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A problem doubled
As the old saying goes, a problem shared is a problem halved. Peter Rees’ article “Double Your Risk” (4 November), explaining how more than one employer can be liable for the acts of employees, seems to demonstrate a more realistic scenario: a problem shared is two people with a problem.
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Support from The RICS
As chartered building control surveyors, we pride ourselves on being the first port of call for advice on how to satisfy the functional requirements of the regulations.
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Big problem for small firms
There will, I’m sure, be a schemes where the budget allows the hiring of consultants to provide comliant designs, but these will be few and far between.
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More words of support …
It is becoming increasingly difficult for building control to keep up with changes...
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FeaturesLovely idea...
… shame about the council’s cost-cutting hit men. Gus Alexander takes a stroll around Whitechapel’s Idea Store, the David Adjaye-designed library-cum-IT-superstore, and laments what might have been
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Projects update: health and safety
The seconds following a site accident can make all the difference between life and death, which is why the Red Cross has set up a programme of construction-specific first aid training days
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FeaturesVintage Rogers
Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;
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FeaturesOut of control
In the week that the RICS lent its support to Building’s Reform the Regs campaign, Sarah Richardson spent a day with Leeds building control to witness the problems at ground level
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FeaturesThe inheritors
The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.
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FeaturesWith this issue...
....of Building we are publishing a Channel Tunnel Rail Link supplement.
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Lead times
This quarter Mace finds many lead times unchanged, but on the brink of increases next year as strong order books put the pressure on …
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NewsBAA sets out £9.5bn spend including new Heathrow T2
With the announcement of ‘Heathrow East’ for the 2012 Olympics, construction boss Bayliss looks at his in-tray
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Balfour Beatty regains top spot with £395m contracts
Roads contract worth £171m helps contractor re-establish itself at top of October’s monthly league
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NewsThe art of science
For a state-of-the-art interactive science centre in the German town of Wolfsburg, Saxony, Zaha Hadid has come up with a futuristic magic box designed to awaken curiosity and the desire for discovery.