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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport

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    Appointments

    2004-07-15T10:34:00Z

    Movers and shakers in the industry this week

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    Get on board

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    When the architect of Walthamstow's bus station had to cut costs on the stunning roof, it needed the whole team to work together in order to reach the destination.

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    How illuminating

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    In creating a landmark building for a West Midlands college, D5 Architects had to come up with problem-solving ideas to link the 1960s block next door.

  • Up in smoke: Severe house fire damage
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    The rules

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    A fire investigation body cites the potential risks for roof spaces ahead of next year's revision of Part B of the Building Regulations. Plus the BBA clarifies the issue of ventilation in cold-pitched roofs.

  • Slate Roof
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    Checklist

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Although it is widely admired for its aesthetic qualities, slate is a highly variable product that can pose plenty of problems for the specifier. We explain how to minimise them

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    Costs

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Steel and copper prices have gone through the roof, so specifiers face a test of their mettle. Peter Fordham of quantity surveyor Davis Langdon breaks down the costs of metal roofing

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    Just the job

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Headley explains why, after a career as an oil engineer, he became Wilson Bowden's HR director

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    European whole-life costs

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z By and Franklin + Andrews Franklin + Andrews

    Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews takes its annual look at labour, construction and running costs for a notional factory in 12 European lands. Greece and Portugal come out looking good … again

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    Farrell & Nash (deceased)

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Sir Terry Farrell's grand plan for a central promenade linking Primrose Hill to the South Bank captures a little of a Georgian ancestor's grand vision

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    Hansom

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    A special issue on the difficulty of transporting information from one head to another without something dreadful happening on the way

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    The doorman's advice

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Roy Wakeman, the new chairman of the Construction Confederation, has come from the bottom of the industry's supply chain – so he's had a good view of where it's failing, and how it can improve.

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    A 300-year facelift

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    How's this for cosmetic surgery? The latest whispers in the round are that a certain landmark cathedral is getting a nip-and-tuck. But then, it is approaching a rather significant birthday …

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    Lawyers, guns and money

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    No matter how strange foreign cultures may be, almost all are governed by the same legal principles as English law – which is good news for us all

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    Capper's way

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Professor Philip Capper has just made a super speech about adjudication, about judges, about lawyers … and especially about his girlfriend Iris

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    Don't, don't you want me

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The JCT appears to have rejected the idea of incorporating the SCL delay and disruption supplement into its contracts – which has provoked a bit of a debate …

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    Damned if you do …

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Doubts are growing about whether adjudication can deal with professional negligence claims, the reason being that it struggles to cope with expert witnesses

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    Lend Lease replies

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Your feature article "Down Under" (2 July, pages 24-27) demands a response, if only to put your readers' minds at rest that Bovis Lend Lease is not for sale.

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    We're all German now

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Until 1993, I was responsible for the Department of the Environment's construction research programme.

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    A call to arms

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    I am becoming extremely frustrated with the mainly positive press that adjudication receives and which in my view is not deserved.