All Building articles in 14 May 2010 – Page 4
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Features
The tracker: On eggshells
Experian Business Strategies reports on a fragile recovery in the market
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Comment
Religious discrimination laws: But I'm a shaman!
A recent case has extended the laws protecting employees from religious discrimination to those who hold any kind of ‘cogent and serious belief’
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Comment
Schools in danger
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour’s record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under Labour
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Comment
Expert determination: A short cut through a swamp
Plumping for expert determination to resolve a dispute may sound like a quick, cheap, hassle-free alternative to adjudication or litigation. But it ain’t necessarily so
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News
‘Onerous contract’ destroyed Tube Lines PPP
Advisers close to situation say specific nature of deal was to blame, rather than general failure of PPP
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TPT Construction faces liquidation for non-payment
Complaints about £20m contractor have increased since 21-year-old tycoon bought it last year
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Wates wins out as industry scrabbles for commercial work
Business barometer Less than 10% of firm’s income came from commercial sector in April
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Our floating voters’ verdict on the coalition
Neil Dower of Conamar: Voted Tory“I don’t think the result is the best thing for the country or the industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cameron called another election in the next 18 months. Until then, I think decision-making will be slow. The cuts are something to keep an eye ...
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CommentA fool and his client’s money
The last of Robert Adam’s seven deadly sins of architecture deals with profligacy – in other words, the tendency of big-name designers to put their artistic vision before their client’s wallet …
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Features
Regime change UK: Our new coalition government
Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken look at the consequences of a Lib–Con coalition
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News
Pressing task: Glenn Howells in Elephant & Castle
Printworks is a nine-storey development in Elephant & Castle in south London, designed by Glenn Howells Architects
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Comment
Nick Raynsford: Let me mark your card
Now the election is over we can roll up our sleeves and get ready for the next one. But we do have a year or so of coalition government first.
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Comment
Commercial property: We can’t go on like this
Commercial development is inching its way towards a fragile recovery but the landscape has changed forever and we will need to rethink our way back to prosperity
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CommentBSF is dead. So now what?
Regardless of who won the election, Building Schools for the Future was doomed. But it can adapt into something new – and so can the architects that do it
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News
Bioenergy Centre, Nottingham: Food for thought
Work started this week on a £25m Bioenergy Centre for the University of Nottingham at its Sutton Bonington campus.
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Billions of pounds of schools and health projects frozen
New government halts all schools contracts not at preferred bidder stage and postpones Procure 21+
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RICS set for showdown with ‘big eight’ QSs
A group of the largest QS firms in the country will hold crunch talks with the RICS next month to discuss the profession’s grievances against the institution
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FeaturesThe big brother houses: monitoring residents' energy use
Housebuilders can specify all the green technology they want, but what happens when human beings get left in charge of the thermostat? Buro Happold installed sensors to find out, then told Thomas Lane what they discovered
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CIPS: Industry growing at fastest rate since before slump
The latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply show the industry has experienced its fastest growth since before the recession, but the head of the body has warned that political uncertainty could spark “the jitters”.
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Hansom: Coming to my bash?
Quarrels over ways of measuring embodied energy (no, really), communication breakdowns, last-ditch efforts to prevent desertion … oh, why can’t we just be Friends?