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Call for legal limit on office heat
Building services provider Mitie has called for the introduction of legal maximum temperatures in offices after Britain's hottest recorded summer
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Government tests industry's capacity to do school work
Whitehall calls in Ernst & Young to assess industry's ability to carry out £60bn school refurb programme.
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NewsAukett in line for Sky studio
Television broadcaster Sky has enlisted architect Aukett Europe to assess plans for a studio in west London
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NewsIndustry to lobby DTI for tougher adjudiction rules
Industry leaders to call for amendments to Construction Act to bring in stronger adjudicators and simpler system.
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Feilden Clegg hopes to put 3000 homes into Oxford hole
Architect to draw up plans for sustainable community, with research centre and public transport, in derelict quarry.
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FeaturesInn with the new
When the founders of City Inn commissioned their flagship central London hotel, they wanted something accessible but striking – inside and out. So Bennetts Associates came up with a fresh approach that has rewritten the rulebook for hotel design.
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Local lowdown
In the latest of our regional series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose investigates the thriving job market in Scotland
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FeaturesCost model: Offices
Sustainability issues are rapidly rising up the corporate agenda. We consider the impact of sustainability measures on commercial buildings and reveal that going green need not cost the earth
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NewsWSP aims to cut debt 16% by December
Support services group WSP intends to cut net debt 16% by the end of the year.
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NewsWho makes the grade?
It's exam result time again for the housebuilding industry, when we find out which boffins are top of the class and which dunces must do better. Josephine Smit picks some highlights from the Private Housebuilding Annual 2003
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David Curry
The government is gearing up to take the Housing Bill through parliament, but there are a couple of issues it will have a hard time getting past the Commons – let alone the Lords …
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Be serious
The sordid tale of the cocaine-fuelled rise of an industry boss and his debauched nights of three-in-a-limo … Oh, alright, it's about a new form of contract
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Brief encounter: Trust or bust
Do partnering contracts promote co-operation, or are they doomed attempts to legislate for virtue? Here the father of PPC2000 faces two of his critics …
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School ties
In adjudications involving non-payment, the outcome can depend on which school of thought your adjudicator belongs to. Finding out early on can save you a fortune
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No more neighbour-proofing
The news that new homes may not be subject to acoustic insulation testing (29 August, page 13) demonstrates that housebuilders are more worried about their financial returns than the plight of their end users.
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Hold your horses
I was astonished to read the news item claiming that 70% of all commercial properties could be made unusable by the effects of global warming (5 September, page 11).
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Trust the experts
In your article about the impact of global warming on buildings (5 September, page 11) you gave us a set of doom-and-gloom statements from "experts" Nick Cullen, Geoff Livermore and Bill Dunster.
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He started it
I see Luke Wessely is in your columns again trying to tell us all how good he and other trade contractors can be (5 September, page 36). In a perfect world, maybe.