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NewsA bigger splash
This modernist swimming pool, designed by Eva Jiricna Architects as an extension to a Georgian terrace house in Westminster, has been given a specialist conversion award by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The winner of the trust’s building of the year was Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee, designed ...
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Civil engineers call for urgent action over waste
The government will have to build up to 2300 waste treatment plants by 2020 to cope with Britain's growing rubbish mountain, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Aukett to design Asda's big idea
Listed architect Aukett has teamed up with retailer Asda to design a £150m mixed-use scheme in the Isle of Dogs, east London
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NewsWalking on Aire
Assael Architecture has won an international competition to design a large residential and commercial scheme on the banks of the River Aire in Leeds. The 2.5 ha site is close to Leeds' main train station and will comprise offices, restaurants, shops and 600 apartments with a large open piazza facing ...
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Inquest returns verdict of misadventure
A labourer died after he fell from the roof of a four-storey building in east London, an inquest heard on Tuesday.
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Berkeley sued for 100,000
A Court battle between Berkeley Homes and the owner of the Dover Street restaurant in central London over five allegedly defective flats is to be heard on 16 July.
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NewsRow breaks out
This extension to a terrace, by ECD Architects, is part of a £40m regeneration programme of four council estates in Tower Hamlets, east London. The design for estates, which are south of Mile End Road, is split between ECD and BPTW Architects, with Carter Clack as structural engineer, David Miles ...
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CITB deputy chairman rewarded in honours list
Peter Rogerson, deputy chairman of CITB ConstructionSkills, is one of the few in the construction industry to win an accolade in the Queen's birthday honours.
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FeaturesBeauty is but skin deep
… especially on these iconic buildings, made infamous by latent defects. The question is, why do problem projects keep getting built – and how can the industry learn from its mistakes?
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CommentA reader writes - Hobson's choices
John Hobson, until recently the man in charge of construction at the civil service, gives us his take on the future of sustainability and regulation
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The gain in panes
After seven years in development, the European Window Energy Rating System is ready to roll, and it's intended to be a better test of performance than U-values. We report on a scheme that's coming soon to a glazed area near you
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CommentWonders & blunders
Paul Burgess praises an atrium that makes the heart soar, but missed chances just make it sore. And check out the new Back Issues …
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April's no fool
The April survey from Experian's Business Strategies division reports an increase in the industry's activity levels, with employment prospects and tender prices set to follow in the same direction
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CABE's problem of perception
Did Stuart Lipton jump the CABE ship or was he pushed? A critical government audit warning of a conflict of interest left him little choice, and means future chairmen will not be property developers
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A profitable loss
The defendant let certain premises to the claimants under a lease within which the claimants were covenanted "well and substantially to repair renew cleanse and keep in good and substantial repair and condition and maintain the demised premises". Upon expiry of the lease the tenants claimed repayment of an amount ...
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Benchmarks go even greener
The Brick Development Association has published the first KPI updates as part of the brick industry's ongoing commitment to measure annually its sustainability performance.
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NewsBDA hires top structural engineer
The BDA has appointed Dr Ali Arasteh principal structural engineer.
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NewsGuide to clay bricks and mortars published
Anyone involved in building work, whether owner, self-builder, architect or surveyor, will find a new publication on brickwork an invaluable source of information.