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CommentWho are you today?
A piece of legislation that protects ‘consumers’ against unfair treatment from ‘commercial’ types – meaning you – undermines whole basis of a building contract
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Low-energy buildings
This week, a look at low-energy buildings focuses on the worlds first zero carbon emissions office, with top tips on how to design your own plus checklist, products, suppliers guide and how Arup is turning green
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FeaturesLocal lowdown: Ireland
Local lowdown Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports on the rapid growth of the Irish market
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FeaturesCost model: Office design
After a few belt-tightening years, the City of London’s commercial sector is on the up again. In this cost model, Davis Langdon and Mott Green Wall examine the current market and recent advances in office design – and break down the costs of a high-quality, mid-rise City scheme
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Mowlem to take £15m hit on contracts
Mowlem has issued a profit warning after an internal review found that its return on work in hand would be £15m less than it had expected for the 2004 financial year.
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The making of a muddle
The Skanksa vs Egger case blurred the distinction between entitlement to extension of time and entitlement to compensation. Here’s what happened …
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Backing the bill
Despite objections from certain camps, government backing for more stringent punishments in order to reduce the level of workplace death and injury (“Queen’s speech heralds corporate manslaughter bill”, 26 November, page 15) is largely matched by the corporate world’s level of concern.
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It’s not either/or
The article on “new urbanism” (26 November, page 41) pitted two extreme and opposing views of architects. On the one hand, we are asked to believe that a bunch of icon-obsessed egos is working in the interests of self-promotion rather than for the benefit of our towns and cities; on ...
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CSCS is working
As the employers’ side of the CSCS board, Building’s news article on 3 December dismays us (“Unions attack CITB over £5m deficit in CSCS scheme”, page 9). It is worth remembering that the “Qualifying the Workforce” initiative, led by employers with enthusiastic support from the unions, has resulted in more ...
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House of cards
I read with some amusement about the power struggle between CSCS and the CITB (26 November, page 24).The views of John Smith more than adequately reflect the real world. Despite the willingness of many legitimate contractors and specialist contractors to apply the scheme, the whole thing will degenerate into even ...
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Jobs for the boys
I always read with interest your articles bemoaning the lack of women in the industry. Like Helen Sanders (26 November, page 36), I don’t always agree with this philosophy.Setting my rather cynical opinion aside and working under the assumption that construction does need more women to help fill the skills ...
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Costing the ‘black art’
Although Chris Haley may well be right in pushing for greater QS involvement in costing services, he misses a vital point (26 November, page 38). A fundamental reason why the costing of services is so poor is that the “trade” traditionally designs a large part of the services elements in ...
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Chiding Charlie
In your article “Whitehall gets a royal warning over fast-track housebuilding” (26 November, page 16), Prince Charles is quoted as saying: “The fast building movement will strangle the world unless we look at diversity above mass production.” Whoever is supplying the prince with information about the design flexibility of homes ...
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CommentWhat was going on there then?
Two weeks ago, we published this photo from the days when architectural models were hand-carved out of wood and nothing said steely determination quite like a well-appointed pipe. We asked you to provide as much information as you could about what was going on and such was the response that ...
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Firms priced out of using steel
The world shortage of structural steel is forcing contractors to consider constructing the floor structures of offices and high-rise residential apartments from concrete.
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Stadium victory for Buckingham
The contract to design and build a 30,000-seater stadium in Milton Keynes has been awarded to the Silverstone-based Buckingham Group.
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NewsPrime position
Newham council has awarded planning consent for a 249-unit, £50m mixed-use development in Warton Road, Stratford, east London. The scheme, a Telford Homes joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland, overlooks the site for the proposed Olympic stadium. The development, designed by architect Stock Woolstencroft, includes an 18-storey tower ...