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    Firms face insurance cost hike

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Concerns have been raised that contractors will face higher administrative overheads when an insurance directive policed by the Financial Services Authority is introduced next month

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    A sustained attack

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Sustainability is at the top of the government's agenda at the moment. The industry is being bombarded with reports on how to use fewer natural resources and a sustainable buildings code has been proposed that will force designers of public sector buildings and social housing to specify sustainable materials. English ...

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    Checklist

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Photovoltaic panels can give a building instant green credentials, improve its insulation levels and add design flair. Specialist supplier Solar Century offers a nine-point plan to make the most of British sunshine

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    Costs

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Eco-friendliness can be your budget's worst enemy. But help is at hand with Davis Langdon's cost indicator table, BRE's online tool to calculate cost–energy trade-offs, and XCO2 Consibee's sums on zero-heating homes

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    Green and gold

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.

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    Products

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    In this month's sustainable homes special, What's the Spec shows you how to harness the June sunshine to plan winter-warm homes, and insulate with recycled materials

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    The rules

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A sustainablitiy task group recommends a new building code and demands specifiers use more recycled materials. Plus, why housebuilders must shell out to comply with noise pollution standards.

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    Local lowdown: London

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Celebrities are searching for quick-thinking, tight-lipped site managers, but they aren't the only clients hiring in London. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports

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    Broker's notes: Scoring points in the City

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Why, hello there, dear reader. As Euro 2004 is upon us, I have decided that a football theme is in order this week.

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    London QS launches bullish growth drive

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyor Bruce Shaw London aims to double the size and turnover of its business within five years.

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    Open mike: Read 'em and weep

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    As Jeff Howell's postbag shows, the people the government encouraged to buy their own homes in the 1980s were cut adrift with no idea what to do when they failed

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    Hansom

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    More heartwarming stories of everyday xenophobia, madness, greed, buck passing, fraud, sin, error, confusion, doubt, marble and identical twins

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    Practice made perfect

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    It's easy to mistake David Morley Architects' clear-glazed NHS walk-in centre for a shop front. And that's the intention. We walked in to check it out, and he didn't even need an appointment …

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    Building in two dimensions

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII

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    The guests are arriving

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Isn’t the point of the European Union’s single market to increase the flows of goods, services, capital and labour, and thereby increase economic efficiency?

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    The meddle detector

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Act is coming under review but, while there are good arguments for some change, the scrutinisers should remember: if it ain't broke …

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    We need some fog lights

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Two years after Judge Seymour said you couldn't introduce new material once an adjudication had started, we're not much wiser about whether he was right

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    A remembrance of things past

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    I very much doubt that I will be the first correct answer, but the building in your "In the detail" competition is Trellick Tower in Golborne Road London W10 – not to be confused with trendy Notting Hill – designed by Erno Goldfinger and constructed by Holland Hannon and Cubitts.It ...

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    Against the system

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    I am greatly concerned by the increase in the "contributions" required from applicants for planning permission.

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    Manufacturing opportunities

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    I am a second-year building surveying student, and an unusual one, in that I am aged 35, and from a manufacturing background.