All Building articles in 13 July 2018
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White paper: The secrets of keeping a project on track
How a decision-making software platform can help to overcome the challenges of keeping large schemes from running late and overbudget
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Comment
Why the UK's buildings must plan for electric vehicles
By the time the ban on pure combustion vehicles comes into force by 2040, we may have shifted the way in which we use our vehicles. The UK needs to confront the issue sooner rather than later
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Comment
Hansom: For a better world
This week, women in construction stick the boot in, scientists harness the power of mushrooms for a more eco-friendly brick and the words ‘coffee mug’ get a whole new meaning
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Features
From the archive: 2005
This week, we interviewed James Lidgate, chief executive of Legal & General Homes, who is on a mission to produce 15,000 homes a year with the help of modular design. However, long before the 2017 government white paper called for offsite strategies, and the current rallying cry for modular, there ...
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Features
Sketch of the week: Affordable housing project, Ladywell, south-east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by project architect Sarah Ernst at Architype
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Features
Image of the week: A flying visit
Thousands of onlookers lined the Mall and the royals watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony as “up to 100” aircraft took part in the centenary celebrations of the Royal Air Force
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Online poll: Modular housing take-off
This week’s poll: Are we finally about to see modular techniques take off and solve the UK’s much-publicised housing crisis?
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Comment
Riding the storm
Yet another government reshuffle and another housing minister is in place, but does any of this Westminster chaos matter to construction’s core issues?
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News
L&G finally poised to roll out factory-built houses
Housebuilder says it has overcome manufacturing constraints that delayed launch of first homes
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Comment
Case in Focus: how low can you go?
Ted Lowery on a judgment that slated one side’s jaundiced approach to quantum evidence
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Breaking the traditional housing model: James Lidgate talks to Building
L G has ambitious plans to set up a diversified housing business delivering 15,000 homes a year – a large share of them modular
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Comment
What is on Kit Malthouse's to-do list
With the introduction of Kit Malthouse as the latest housing minister, TLT’s David Smithen hopes that he will resist the temptation to demonise the development industry
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Features
Projects: For a new generation
On a vast regeneration site in London’s Wembley Park, developer Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme
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Comment
Digital dexterity
Next-generation technology and digitalised workflows have the power to revolutionise our industry, but to make the most of their potential we must give up on old ways of thinking
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News
Infrastructure output stagnant for past decade, says procurement specialist
Analysis also reveals regional divide
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Features
Analysis: Carillion by numbers
Since the contracting giant went bust six months ago, a mess of startling facts and figures have emerged into the public domain. Dave Rogers picks his way through
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Comment
When it comes to building affordable homes, Dutch courage is called for
hile political initiative and leadership for affordable housing is more reliable and convincing in the Netherlands than it has been in the UK, we need a bit of Dutch courage to tackle Britain’s housing crisis head-on, says Martin Bellinger
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Comment
Time’s up on 100% time bars
Why do time bar provisions strike down all of a claim, not part of it? Standard forms should allow a less extreme option