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FeaturesHot topic: Impact of oil prices
Following on from last week’s energy issue, Davis Langdon examines the impact of oil prices – and therefore petrol prices and transport costs – going through the roof
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FeaturesThe response
From Jersey to Carlisle, readers have been sending in their support for Building’s Reform the Regs campaign. Backing has come from across the industry. Here, we publish a selection of readers’ letters.
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FeaturesThe father trap
As if babies didn’t create enough havoc in the lives of their dads, they are now threatening to disrupt their employers, too. The government wants to give new fathers three months’ paternity leave on £106 a week. But in the macho world of construction, how many would actually ...
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FeaturesCarbon copy
After making a splash with BedZed, Bill Dunster is taking the sustainability mission to the next stage, tackling everyday housing as well as homes of Chinese bourgeoisie.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes – and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card …
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UK planning 127 towers
The number of residential towers under construction has increased nearly two-thirds in the past year, according to Savills.
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Barratt wins two sites in £60,000 house race
Barratt Developments has secured two of the first four sites to be developed under the government’s Design for Manufacture competition to build a £60,000 house.
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NewsTowns and cities queue up for infrastructure funding
Ten areas throughout the country have submitted applications for cash in return for greater housing growth
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NewsNorth-west scraps housing squeeze
Planners in the North-west have scrapped a curb on housebuilding that has been stalling many developments.
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NewsNever mind the quality . . .
If cars had as many faults as houses there would be uproar, says James Sommerville
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NewsDown by the river
These are the first images of the collaboration between architects Make and Carey Jones.
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NewsSeagulls’ new roost
Architect KSS Design Group has unveiled this image of the long-awaited new stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion FC.
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Brumwell set to face CSCS leadership challenge
George Brumwell, chairman of the CSCS card scheme, is set to face a leadership challenge in January, according to senior industry sources.
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Ascot meeting switched
The race meeting that follows Royal Ascot has been switched to an alternative venue to enable contractor Laing O’Rourke to address any problems with construction work at the venue.
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Former Schal boss Chapman joins consultant
Terry Chapman, the former managing director of construction manager Schal, who left the company in April after a failed management buyout from parent Carillion, has joined Initiate Consulting as chief operating officer.
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9/11 study will call for design review of skyscrapers
A team of researchers is studying the behaviour of 9/11 survivors as they evacuated the World Trade Center in an attempt to improve safety in skyscrapers.
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NewsDover Street, Squire?
Architect Squire and Partners has received planning permission for this mixed-use development on Dover Street, near Piccadilly in central London.
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Fit-out firms vie for £100m Shell Centre contract
Three fit-out specialists are chasing an interiors contract for the 70,000 m2 Shell Centre in Waterloo, south London.