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Rethinking arbitration
The unmitigated success of adjudication leads us logically to reassess the potential of a streamlined version of arbitration to deal with more complex cases
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CommentBeware your friends
If two firms snuggle up, and then one finds that the other is (metaphorically) picking its pockets, can it get a judge to intervene? The Court of Appeal had this to say …
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CDM made simple
The problem in assessing CDM’s effectiveness as A Beal suggests (Letters, 2 July, page 32) is that the industry has very rarely implemented the regulations as intended.
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Another part to the story
Your article “Experts warn of risk from unsafe glass” (18 June, page 17) states that the Building Regulations offer insufficient protection to the public from floor-to-ceiling windows and that architects are free to specify non-laminate glass.
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Don't panic
Just a thought while I was having my cup of tea: the answer to the debate over whether steel or concrete should be used for the protective barriers around the Houses of Parliament (16 July, page 15) is obvious. Sandbags – hundreds of them should suffice. After all, what was ...
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NewsThreat of sex smears forces Montpellier off animal lab
Police investigate letters from animal rights activists threatening to make bogus claims about hundreds of staff
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Jarvis hires US management guru for shake-up
Support services group Jarvis has brought in a renowned American restructuring expert to advise it on its restructuring plan.
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Regs get tough over energy
Designers and contractors must make new buildings more energy efficient under proposed changes to the Building Regulations announced on Wednesday.
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HSE probes site death of Belgian worker in Wales
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating why a Belgian worker fell to his death in Wales last week.
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Polish flats slash prefab cost by 30%
Keith Hill, the housing minister, this week topped out eight key-worker flats that were in built in south London but prefabricated in Poland.
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NewsESA over Asda
ESA Architects has gained planning consent for its Dolphin site in Romford, Essex. This mixed-use development will provide an extension of about 10,000 m2 to the town's main shopping centre, complete with 229 flats and communal gardens. Work starts on site shortly. The project team included Walsh Associates as structural ...
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M&S bins Lifestore concept
Retailer Marks & Spencer is to scrap its Lifestore concept less than six months after it was introduced.
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Court to sentence Balfour Beatty after track death
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure is to be sentenced for safety breaches at the City of London magistrates court on 30 September after an unsupervised temporary railway worker was killed in October 2000.
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David Wilson Homes shakes up with north-south divide
Housebuilder David Wilson Homes, part of the Wilson Bowden Group, has restructured after taking over three firms last year.
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Paddington trust boss quits
The chief executive of one of the trusts proposing the troubled £800m PFI health campus in Paddington, west London, quit his post this week.
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NewsAlsop's latest menu
Architect Will Alsop has unveiled two designs for the New Islington project in east Manchester. The one pictured left is called “Chips” because it look like stacks of chips; the other is called “Urban Barns”. Chips will be located beside a new canal inlet, and in a nod to Manchester’s ...
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FeaturesGuess who's back in town
For years, English Partnerships was widely criticised as an irrelevance. After Gordon Brown’s spending review, however, it has £30bn of land in the bank and big plans for developing it. We report on what’s coming next
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Brits on broadway
Next to the World Trade Centre site, Arup and Grimshaw have designed one of Manhattan's most dramatic projects. It may not alter the skyline, but the £500m subway interchange will transform the city's congested and confusing underground network.
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CommentLet's talk rubbish
The problem raised by the disposal of commodities after consumption is as nothing compared with the problem raised by people who seek to prevent that disposal
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EP to expand design code trial
English Partnerships is to expand its design code pilot scheme in Northampton by buying local authority land on which it intends to build an extra 5000 homes