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Wonders & blunders
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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Get on board
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
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.
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Just the job
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
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)
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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The doorman's advice
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
Until 1993, I was responsible for the Department of the Environment's construction research programme.
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A call to arms
I am becoming extremely frustrated with the mainly positive press that adjudication receives and which in my view is not deserved.