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Features
Sketch of the week: adapted Victorian post office, Bury St Edmunds
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tanvir Hasan, deputy chair of Donald Insall Associates.
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From the archive: 2005
Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.
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Ridge buys planning consultant as it plots more growth
Firm adds Cheltenham business Hunter Page to 600-strong group
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Comment
Legal: a knotty problem
James Bessey explains that a recent case showing nuisance can be caused by omission as well as action has implications for cladding fires
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Legal: Cyber Security: smart buildings
Paul Glass and Jill Hamilton of Taylor Wessing’s cyber security team consider the benefits and risks of internet-enabled technology
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Soaring UK revenue helps Arcadis
Highways England and Network Rail jobs give Dutch consulant a lift
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Enfield looks for development partner for £6bn Meridian Water scheme
North London council scraps ‘master developer’ plan for regeneration project
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Bouygues nabs third Hinkley Point contract
French contractor will build a training centre and a warehouse
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Owners who don't do anything about danger cladding at risk from neighbours, says lawyer
Blake Morgan warns of liability risk following Network Rail decision earlier this month
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Low carbon technologies: how do we ensure installed performance?
Terry Keech says it’s time to end the disconnect between ‘intended performance’ and ‘actual performance’ of low carbon technologies installed in social housing
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There is only one path to decarbonising heat – we must realise that now
The only way to decarbonise heat generation is by going all-electric, says Barny Evans. And we need to start working on it now.
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Completions up for Countryside Properties
Deal to buy regional housebuilder earlier this year bears fruit
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Nuclear energy: Gone with the wind
The National Infrastructure Commission’s landmark report this month seemed to sound the death knell for nuclear energy new-build, calling for a large-scale shift to renewables by 2050 – and for only one more nuclear power station approval by 2025. But are we really likely to get 90% of Britain’s electricity ...
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Surveyors fret over who will pay for jobs
Latest quarterly RICS survey says profession worried about financial health of projects
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Mott MacDonald heads up consultants masterplanning Bristol site
Host of firms working on 70ha site next door to city’s Temple Meads station
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Top 150 contractors and housebuilders: Part 2
Building’s exclusive full Top 150 league is out tomorrow, but here selected results on the top 20 housebuilders have been released early
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Fire safety at 22 Bishopsgate: A race to the bottom
At 22 Bishopsgate, Lipton Rogers has developed the UK’s first lift evacuation strategy
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Scaling his Everest, Vinci chief climbs world’s highest mountain
Bruno Dupety conquers Mount Everest