Opinion – Page 354
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In with the old
Reusing existing buildings is set to be the next big thing because it is greener and cheaper than new build. Hampshire council's refurbished headquarters has kicked off this trend; a gas guzzling sixties eyesore has been transformed into one of the UK’s most energy efficient offices. It pioneers a way ...
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Your chance to play: Fantasy Chancellor and swing that spending axe
Feel that fantasy football is a bit old hat? Think you have outgrown FIFA Manager 09 and are itching to run something bigger than a football club?Well why not try playing Fantasy Chancellor and conduct your very own Spending Review 2010.If it grabs your fancy, then those zany guys at ...
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CommentOFT investigation: It’s wrong – but how wrong?
The recession has weakened regional contractors to the point that a fine set at the ‘lenient’ level of 2% of turnover may force many to close down
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CommentGlobal warning: Construction’s carbon cutting agenda
The Copenhagen summit will be the most important environmental conversation ever. Beginning our coverage in the run-up to the summit, Thomas Lane and the UKGBC’s John Alker look at which countries emit most carbon, and why construction will top the agenda
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Environmental damage: Have we got newts for you
The EU’s Environmental Liability Directive has now, at last, been written into UK law. Here’s what it says – and how to minimise your risk
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CommentHansom: Be very afraid …
Gather ye round for ghost stories and seadogs’ yarns, from tales of the living dead at the SEC Group to night-time sabotage on the briny. Thank goodness we have some illumination from the RIBA …
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Hell is for heroes
The job of chief construction adviser is so daunting that only a person with unique skills can make it work. Which makes it all the more important that we find them
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CommentWonders & Blunders with Sandy Nairne
Sandy Nairne chooses two art galleries: one in Germany that set a new standard for art and architecture, and another in London that, unfortunately, did much the same
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Give us a jumpstart
It is encouraging that the government’s £300m scrappage scheme has boosted the UK’s car industry, with new registrations up 6% this year
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CommentA question of discipline
Strangely, your leader (Building, 7 August) on the acquisition of architect DEGW by Davis Langdon didn’t include Building Design Partnership among the multidisciplinary firms mentioned
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Hearing voices
Robert Adam (7 August, page 31), calls for an end to the “deadly sin of designer egotism”
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What Bordon really wants
As the meeting secretary of BAAG – the Bordon Area Action Group – I am writing to correct the impression that everything in Bordon is lovely (11 September, page 46)
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A balanced scoresheet
We read with interest your article (28 August, page 10) concerning the appointment of Turner & Townsend for the Hoe Valley scheme in Woking
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Empty home help
It has been suggested that local authorities should make use of existing empty homes in their districts
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Carbon-ready building
Given the importance – and extraordinary difficulty – of tackling climate change, we need to come up with some pretty spectacular solutions
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111,000 jobs lost to construction... and that is just the start
The latest employment figures make grim reading for the construction industry with the number of workforce jobs plunging by 61,000 in the second quarter of this year.This means that 111,000 jobs have been lost to the industry since they peaked in the autumn last year.In fairness the drop in workforce ...
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Is this deflation I see before me? Why prices are rising faster than the inflation rate
I am not sure about you, but I sometimes have to go to the back numbers to make sense of the statistics that get thrown at me.I have been for some months a bit curious as to why the brightest brains (well some seriously well paid experts) among the UK ...
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House prices on the increase, but so too are the questions marks over the housing market
The big news is that for the first time in two years more surveyors in Britain said prices rose than said they fell, according to the latest RICS housing market survey.The big question is whether this is the start of a continuous and sustained recovery in the housing market or ...
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Thank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Cast your mind back 10 years, if you can. Compulsory competitive tendering was a way of life in the public sector. Design-and-build hospitals resembled a lot of site cabins bolted together; developers threw up office blocks that had the charm and civic presence of a shopping precinct. The role of ...