All Building articles in 19 May 2017
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News
Grimshaw’s Miami science museum opens doors
Four-building Florida complex includes conical aquarium and planetarium
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News
Legendary London music venue KOKO set for remix
Archer Humphryes Architects proposals will upgrade Grade II building and deliver new hotel
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Go-ahead for AHMM homes at former Croydon council HQ
Work on Taberner House to start later this year
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Training UK workers will be Brexit plus, says Berkeley boss
Rob Perrins also takes a swipe at the apprenticeship levy
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Comment
Heritage is absent from the housing white paper
We need to reintroduce the concept of heritage into the discussion around the expanding our villages, towns and cities
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Home ownership focus is flawed, says Quintain boss
Wembley developer calls for ‘vibrant rental sector’
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Features
Housebuilders' ground rent "scandal"
Government has now said it will crack down on ‘doubling’ leasehold ground rents, earlier in the year Building investigated this controversial industry practice
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News
Countryside admits it sold houses with ‘doubling’ clauses
News comes after Taylor Wimpey’s £130m writedown related to controversial leasehold contracts
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Election 2017 survey: Tell us what you think
With just a few weeks to go to polling day, we want to find out what Building readers think of the main political parties and their construction policies
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Features
Image of the week: Hart-breaking farewell
Football fans enter Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart Lane stadium for the final time on Sunday
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Features
Sketch of the week: Ducie Street, Manchester
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller at Calderpeel Architects
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Features
This week in 1997
This time in 1997 Building polled readers’ attitudes to their work and the results were far from happy
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Comment
Case in focus: Procedural fairness
Had interventions by the judge during the evidence made a fair trial impossible? Ted Lowery considers a recent Court of Appeal case
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Comment
Construction’s candidate: Stephen Gee
The first of Building’s series of interviews with the construction professionals standing in the general election
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Features
Online poll: Labour manifesto
Would the policies outlined in Labour’s election manifesto be good for construction? Vote here
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Archive Titles
Election 2017: Contact your candidate
Support our Building a Better Brexit campaign by writing to your consitutency candidates to highlight construction’s priorities
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Comment
Forming frameworks
Early contractor involvement is about more than just two-stage tendering. There are tested resources to build strong project teams, including last year’s FAC-1 framework alliance contract
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Comment
A week in the election
Labour’s manifesto is leaked, then released, and the Conservatives try to park their tanks on Labour’s lawn
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Economy watch: Layers of uncertainty
As the general election approaches and uncertainty around Brexit continues, economic indicators are starting to get darker
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Labour commits to Crossrail 2
Party’s manifesto, leaked last week, also confirms it will end leaseholds homes in new developments