All Building articles in 11 April 2014 – Page 4
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Building Award Winners: Construction consultant / surveyor of the year (100 staff or over)
Rapid growth in emerging markets and eye-catching deals such as the Battersea Power Station redevelopment ensure that Turner Townsend takes the prize for the second year running
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Building Award Winners: Construction consultant / surveyor of the year (fewer than 100 staff)
This category included several impressive companies that weathered the recession on limited resources, but first prize went to a small firm that is making big waves in the North-west
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Comment
Healthier by design
Experts have suggested that up to £1bn a year could be saved on healthcare if the UK introduced better town and city planning
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Features
What to specify: Housing
This week, we go through the keyhole at some of the UK’s most genteel new residences, including a Buckinghamshire country house with timber leaded windows and a rapidly rendered home in Poundbury
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Comment
Guaranteeing the guarantees
What happens when a firm agrees to deliver a bond or collateral warranty and then fails to do so? Mr Justice Ramsey, it seems, thinks ordering specific performance may be a solution
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Features
Sustainability: Facilities efficiency
As construction becomes ever more energy efficient, attention is turning to facilities management to deliver greater carbon and cost savings. Phil Birch of Sweett Group examines how the purchasing and management of cleaning and catering operations can reduce a building’s environmental impact
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Features
Fair payment charter: Cheque’s in the post
Few issues are more contentious in construction than payment practices. So will a new fair payment charter that asks contractors to commit to shorter payment times actually work - or merely add to the pile of previous failed attempts to reform the industry?
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News
Beijing exhibition centre gets BREEAM excellent rating
A Beijing exhibition centre designed by Bogle Architects and engineered by Arup has been awarded a BREEAM outstanding rating
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Wellbeing research competiton
BRE and Ecobuild present two winning research papers on wellbeing and the built environement
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Comment
Third party funding: A third wheel?
Stopjoin Projects Ltd vs Balfour Beatty Engineering Services highlights issues which arise when third parties get involved in financing construction companies
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Comment
Offshore wind power: Winds of change
Legal and regulatory hurdles are making offshore wind power unneccessarily expensive. Before the next round of projects is procured, we need to cut the costs in half
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Comment
Arbitration: The secretary of state for defence vs Turner Estate Solutions
This case before Mr Justice Akenhead in the TCC considers issues of serious irregularity
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Comment
Farrell Review in numbers
This week Sir Terry Farrell published his review on architecture and the built environment, commissioned by architecture minister Ed Vaizey. We break down the workings, and the outcomes so far, below
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News
HSE overhaul could create new role for engineers
Watchdog looks to shift more site safety responsibility to architects and engineers
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Building awards in pictures
Building held it’s annual award ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel earlier this week. Here are pictures of the big night
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