All Building articles in 13 April 2018
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Features
Into the unknown: a housebuilding journey
Every great housebuilding era in the last 175 years has featured in our pages. Here, Joey Gardiner asks if the next 25 years will witness a radical rethink in order to hit the ambitious goal of 300,000 homes a year
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Features
Sketch of the week: Housing development, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Patrick McMahon at FaulknerBrowns Architects
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Comment
Hansom: Ground control
This week: dodgy moves for tackling the pay gap, Battersea Power Station lowers its profile, Hoover makes a clean sweep, and an old home finally bites the dust
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Features
Results season: Carillion has left a large hole in the market
It’s results season again, but with a difference: no Carillion. The demise of one of construction’s biggest players has cast a shadow over the field
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Features
Cost model: Primary care
Mark Robinson of Aecom and Marc Levinson of Murphy Philipps Architects report on how primary care is at the forefront of this challenge and how construction can respond
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Comment
Jam tomorrow - but it's bread and butter today
As the core contracting sector gets to grips with what has happened in the first three months of this year, you can hardly blame them for taking a more cautious approach
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Comment
Thought for tomorrow: The role of the quantity surveyor
John Rowan and Partners chairman Mash Halai predicts how life will change for the QS
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Features
Online poll: A new era for housebuilding?
This week’s poll: Are we embarking on a new era of housebuilding at scale, or set to repeat mistakes of the past?
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Comment
A challenging case
Tony Bingham explains how a recent case clarifies the scope of adjudication and the adjudicator’s role
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Comment
Let's get the dogs out
Conduct regulators are a feature of many sectors, but not construction – what we’ve learned about Carillion’s abuse of its suppliers shows how much we need one too
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Comment
Unlocking brownfield sites through digital design and offsite construction
Adopting modern and innovative approaches to both design and construction could help unlock the vital community resource that brownfield sites offer
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Features
Projects: The NHS’ first high-energy proton beam cancer treatment centre
The project to complete the centre, opening this summer at the Christie hospital in Manchester, was filled with a plethora of unusual challenges
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News
Approval body defends decision not to downgrade Grenfell cladding
Products approval body says it was given no reason to alter fire rating – unlike its French counterpart
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News
Plans unveiled for 34-storey Salford tower
Simpson Haugh’s Clippers Quay would be tallest building in area
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News
Wates lined up for £33m Braywick Leisure Centre job
Facility will include a 10-lane pool and 200-station gym
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Comment
The pitfalls of 3D printing
In the fourth of our series on new technology, Rebecca Morjaria explains the legal considerations of 3D printing and who is responsible if it goes wrong