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FeaturesSustainability costs
It is commonly assumed that going green will rack up the costs of a building project, but a unique study contradicts that view. In this cost model, Cyril Sweett details sustainable solutions for four building types indicating how improvements can be made at little or no extra cost
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Public sector work boosts first quarter output
The government’s investment in schools and hospitals provided a good start to the year for the construction industry
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Skanska reveals year-on-year fall in UK sales
The UK arm of Swedish contractor Skanska has revealed that its sales fell in the first quarter of 2005 compared with the same period last year.
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NewsMcCaffrey reveals WYG’s international growth plans
New chief operating officer sets out ambitious business targets in first interview since being promoted
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CommentOpen Mike: Read all about it
There’s a new book out on environmental liabilities, which eco-officials, imaginative activists and eagle-eyed lawyers cannot wait to throw at construction firms …
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NewsODPM told to demand mixed communities
The social housing sector is pressing the ODPM to force housebuilders to build mixed communities or waste the opportunity offered by the four housing growth areas
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NewsDanny Chalkley
A 50% affordable housing target is an unworkable, undemocratic and irrational policy
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CommentCDM: An audit
The Health and Safety Executive has just recommended changes to the CDM regulations. So the first question we should ask is: will they do any good?
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CommentDevoured by their house
This is how a simple house extension turned into a simple dispute, which turned into a bitter dispute, which turned into a very expensive legal case. And for what?
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Welcome to castle Bolkestein
The proposed European Union services directive, or Bolkestein’s monster, as it’s known, could produce a playing field with so many bumps that standards suffer
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Who’s suing whom
A round up of the writs at the Technology and Construction Court, including a row over a smart Chelsea pad, landlords in dispute with tenants and two attempts to enforce adjudicators’ awards
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Nowhere to go
As a designer who prepares schemes for several small developers in Sefton, Merseyside, I find it almost impossible to get applications for anything even considered.
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Wigs and muddy boots
Reading Tony Bingham’s article (22 April, page 58) regarding the quandary of a judge faced with the equally compelling opinions of two opposing experts, I was reminded of my very earliest lessons in arbitration.
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A very precise view
Motivated by wishing to balance your rather negative report on the London mayor’s draft supplementary planning guidance the London View Management Framework (22 April, page 16), I should like to point out that the approach is not generally protectionist but informative.
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Just a thought …
In an article relating to the National Audit Office’s report on the government’s construction record (24 March, page 25), Rudi Klein, chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group, suggested “using single project bank accounts for the entire construction project”.To overcome the issue of up-front payment would this not be ...
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Features‘If our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out – I would rather sleep on a friend’s floor for the night’
A block of flats in the Greenwich Millennium Village is at the centre of a bitter dispute about noise transmission. Although the building originally passed an acoustic test, the residents claim the problem is so bad they cannot sleep.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Tony Whitehead of Defence Estates salutes the functional, effective Walsall Art Gallery but finds the Sainsbury Wing spineless
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Department of Health tops £18bn client spending league
NHS Estates spends almost £3bn on construction projects – £1bn more than second-placed Ministry of Defence