All Building articles in 2004 issue 24
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FeaturesUntapped talent
Don't just pay lip-service to diversity – women can offer real business benefits
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FeaturesShanghai zoom
Coming up on the inside it’s Shanghai, sliding into the Formula 1 fast lane with a £140m circuit, grandstands for 200,000 and oh, my word, what a spectacular finish from Tilke of Germany …
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FeaturesTravellin' man
Charlie Hughes of Smart Futures discusses air miles, broken backs, Saddam Hussein and sustainability with us.
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Comment
A profitable loss
The defendant let certain premises to the claimants under a lease within which the claimants were covenanted "well and substantially to repair renew cleanse and keep in good and substantial repair and condition and maintain the demised premises". Upon expiry of the lease the tenants claimed repayment of an amount ...
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News
Inquest returns verdict of misadventure
A labourer died after he fell from the roof of a four-storey building in east London, an inquest heard on Tuesday.
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NewsMoney grabbers
Taxes and tariffs as alternatives to section 106 may sound like good news for housebuilders, but could just give the local authority machine more ways to extract their money.
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Features
The gain in panes
After seven years in development, the European Window Energy Rating System is ready to roll, and it's intended to be a better test of performance than U-values. We report on a scheme that's coming soon to a glazed area near you
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NewsJackson plans return to the fray
Outgoing Peterhouse chairman David Jackson aims to expand his portfolio of non-executive directorships after narrowly losing out in the battle to take control of the infrastructure group
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News
Whitehall summit to tackle foreign worker exploitation
Unions and employers join forces to insist that government enforces wage parity with UK workers
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NewsExperts warn of risk from unsafe window glass
Safety body points out that Building Regulations permit non-laminated glass on floor-to-ceiling windows
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FeaturesStuck in the eighties?
Remember the decade that taste forgot? Dennis Lenard reckons that the construction industry never left it. We ask some key figures if the industry really is frozen in time
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Comment
Ups and downs
I was interested to read that Rod Maceachrane, commercial director of the National House Building Council, says that dispute resolution cases are down 14% year on year (16 April, page 43). The NHBC Annual Review records 4128 cases in 1997/98 rising to 7673 in 2001/02. The last figure was ...
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Comment
Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.
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Comment
Designed by parrots
Much 'sustainable design' is in reality a few slogans and buzzwords repeated by architects and developers to win competitions and get planning permission
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News
David Curry
The government has taken Barker's proposals to heart, and is set to introduce a land tax if it wins a third term. But it must first decide what form this tax will take
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Comment
Way out with the count
While I was genuinely impressed with the victory of off-site manufacture over traditional build in your two-round bout (Homes, May, page 24), I feel I should point out that someone had not done their sums properly. The total cost per unit for traditional build should have been £218,000, making the ...
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Comment
It's the contractors
Colin Harding's open letter to John Prescott (June 4, page 33) is typical of the lovely fellow.
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Comment
The Santa clauses
Clients have the same approach to indemnity clauses as small children do to Christmas lists. It's understandable, perhaps, but it's hardly realistic …