All Building articles in 15 September 2017
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Features
What to specify: Doors and windows
The National Gallery has chosen large doors that match its granite flooring, a Welsh fire station has been fitted with thermally efficient products, and the Design Museum has specified ironmongery
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News
‘Obsessed’ wannabe architect dodges jail over fraud
Suspended sentence for woman who faked her degree certificate and references
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Comment
New technology, old problems
The first judicial consideration of BIM asks whether an interim application for an injunction restoring client access to the project BIM should be granted
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Features
Sketch of the week: Harry Stoke New Neighbourhood, Bristol
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Martin Douglas, associate director at Pad Design
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News
Knight teams up with WSP for bridges job on Sussex bypass
More than 15 bridges may be needed on A27 Arundel bypass
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Comment
Hansom: New kids on the block
This week a six-year-old applies for a job at Legoland, people at Berkeley cash in a chunk of shares, and things get ugly at Nova Victoria
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News
Trade bodies team up to sound alarm on Brexit immigration plan
Chiefs of nine groups tell Brexit secretary David Davis schemes are at risk if EU workers forced to leave in 2019
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News
Osborne joins row about EU migrants plan
Former chancellor highlights financial and workforce risks as he again champions the northern powerhouse to rebalance the economy
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Features
This week in 1997
As construction waits for clarification on Brexit, infrastructure and possible action on the housing white paper, Building looks back to a clearer time when the construction minister Nick Raynsford saw fit to talk directly to the industry
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Comment
The streets of London
“A marathon and not a sprint”: that was how London mayor Sadiq Khan described fixing London’s housing crisis as he launched his draft housing strategy last week. But even “marathon” seems an understatement when you take a quick jog through the numbers. Total housing completions in London are expected ...
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Features
North and South: George Osborne talks to Building
George Osborne talks to Building , reflecting on the ‘northern powerhouse’, infrastructure, Brexit and his hope that the current government will finish the job he started
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Comment
Sort out skills or face a construction crisis in post-Brexit Britain
With the level of infrastructure demand, it’s essential for government to find a way to retain skilled EU workers and attract sustainable levels of talent in the future
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Comment
Quality management or risk dumping?
Recommendations from a report into achieving quality on building sites more than three decades old are still relevant today. Is the industry failing to learn from the past?
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News
Spaniard wins world’s richest architecture prize
Rafael Moneo adds Praemium Imperiale to his trophy cabinet
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Comment
Procuring our safety
Procurement issues lie at the root of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, argues our legal columnist: it’s dangerous for architects and engineers to cede control of how their specification is implemented
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News
Preview: George Osborne speaks to Building
He may be editing a London newspaper but the former chancellor still has his eye on developing the ‘northern powerhouse’ that he championed in government. Here, we give a glimpse of tomorrow’s interview, in which George Osborne talks infrastructure, skills and Brexit with Building
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News
Worries grow over UK's Brexit plan for EU immigrants
RICS says 200,000 overseas workers go move elsewhere
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Features
Party conference season 2017: Any answers?
The shifting sands of this year’s political terrain have left a lot of questions. Will conference season deliver any clarity?
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Comment
Why collaboration has never been more important, and how we can do it better
With the UK now boasting a record construction and infrastructure pipeline worth more than £500bn, it has never been more important to save time and money and to help funding pots stretch further