Opinion – Page 327
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Get building
Surely we have to get back to real basics now (“Industry left waiting on housing and BSF,” 25 June, page 10)
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Cut your coat according to cloth
As the UK’s leading school locker manufacturer, we share the industry’s concerns over the future of Building Schools for the Future (“Industry fears for future of BSF,” 21 June, building.co.uk)
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Sell, sell, sell
I have been saying for years to stakeholders that householders and consumers are ignorant of the benefits that sustainable technology can deliver because it has been poorly sold to them (“Report shows green benefits elude homeowners,” 24 June, building.co.uk)
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Q+A from Building Answers
Building’s Forum regulars offer their advice on problems. This week: a dissertation on sustainability and the London 2012 Olympics
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CommentA New Landmark for Aldgate
A new exhibition dreams of a new London gateway to help celebtate the 2012 Olympics
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CommentHopkins woos Sky riders with velodrome sketch show
Hopkins director Mike Taylor shares the secrects of the 2012 velodrome with riders on the London Festival of Architecture Velo2Velo
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CommentNew KPIs show construction is getting more dangerous
The latest key performance indicators reveal a revearsal of the health and safety improvements and it looks like the recession's to blame
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APC extras: T017 – Contract practice
In the second part of our series we look at the knowledge APC candidates are required to have of construction contracts
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CommentPause … to the Tolent clause !?
The question for the court: Whether a clause in a construction contract which determines that a party is liable for the costs of adjudication irrespective of the decision of the adjudicator, typically referred to as a ’Tolent Clause’, is effective
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CommentOlympic Park landscaping begins with planting 6,000 trees
Building got a sneak preview of the landscaping underway at Stratford, which includes 300,000 plants, flood management technology and a fish refuge
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CommentHansom: Pomp and circumstance
While architects have had a jolly time parading in period dress and tucking into sumptuous desserts, it’s been a week of rotten luck for democracy, Capita Symonds and a soccer squad or two
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CommentNo to nuclear nobbling
Regarding the story “Lend Lease bans Bovis from £40bn nuclear sector” (11 June, page 9): how can another country have the right to influence what this country wants to do?
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Don't be caught out
The news that the communities department office failed an inspection undertaken under its own fire safety laws shows how careful all those affected by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order must be to ensure that fire risk assessments for their premises are adequate and appropriate for their occupation
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Passive protest
It’s about time the government realised that the basic principles promoted by the Passivhaus system (’Low-energy retrofit: Heating a house with a towel rail’, 4 June, page 44) are far superior to either those of BREEAM or Code for Sustainable Homes - less bureaucracy, less cost, less complexity and much ...
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Q+A from Building Answers
Building’s Forum regulars offer their advice on problems from access in a shop to objecting to an extension
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CommentWhere rigans dare
Andrejs Trabo in Riga, Latvia, spotted this “mountain climbing champion” demonstrating an unbelievably stupid solution to the problem of not having a long enough ladder
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CommentNick Raynsford: It’s an inept beginning
So much for turning Britain into ’a nation of homebuilders’. Rather, the coalition seems hell bent on stopping the housing recovery in its tracks
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CommentQuentin Shears: The winning mentality
“We should put the usa game behind us. We can’t do any worse against Algeria”
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Britain’s grand strategy
Open mike Find a map of the UK, spread it on a table, examine its rail links and ports, then consider how they could be upgraded to make the whole country work better. Like this, for example …