All Building articles in 22 February 2019
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News
Housing boss named as honorary professor at Bartlett
Optivo chief executive Paul Hackett will also sit on the RICS’ housing supply group
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Comment
How much social value are we actually delivering?
If we are serious about driving the best social value outcomes from our projects, then we need to bring more rigour to the evaluation process
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Features
Image of the week: Cross-eyed
The pedestrian section of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was converted into a Tunnel of Love this week to celebrate the tunnel’s 77th anniversary, which fell on Valentine’s Day
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Features
Sketch of the week: Eric Parry: Drawing exhibition
This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Eric Parry, founder of Eric Parry Architects
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Off the rails
While Crossrail apparently files its accounts by halves, HS2 veers between flooding stakeholder meetings with its staff and charging them to attend at all
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Features
Cost model: Life sciences buildings
Research methods in the life sciences are developing at an unprecedented rate, so how can our buildings keep up with these developments?
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Features
Building podcast: Crossrail crisis, regulating construction, and making the built environment beautiful
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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News
Muse gets green light for latest phase of Brentford Lock work
Phase three has been designed by Grid Architects
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Features
Does construction need a national regulator?
Taming the industry’s out-of-control practices could benefit all levels of the supply chain – but who can make that happen?
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Features
Projects: Xiqu Centre Opera House, Hong Kong
The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong soars above its constrained site with two theatres suspended above public space, by using some ingenious construction solutions
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Comment
We can't keep spending on public transport and infrastructure that only benefits London
Investment in transport infrastructure needs to be on the right track post-Brexit, argues Mark Robinson, and the first step is to stop focusing on London
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Comment
A friendly warning: free advice can prove costly
Francis Ho recites a cautionary tale of how offering free services to friends can land a professional in very hot – and expensive – water
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Comment
How insolvency affects the jurisdiction of an adjudicator
Katherine Flynn explains the context of a new ruling on insolvency matters
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Features
From the archive: 2008 - All aboard
Never mind the benefits promised by Crossrail when it’s finally finished, in 2008 Ken Livingstone came up with an idea that could really have transformed Londoners’ lives for the better
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News
Demolition under way at HS2 Birmingham depot site
Laing O’Rourke and Murphy responsible for work
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News
In pictures: Walters & Cohen's Cambridge college job opens
Scheme was built by Bedford firm SDC
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Comment
Crossrail – still waiting on the platform
The political sideshow around Crossrail does not help us understand why the £15bn infrastructure project is £2bn over budget, with no delivery date in sight
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Features
Crossrail delay: what's gone wrong – and why
Already a year behind schedule and with no end in sight, Crossrail is burning £30m a week in cash as it struggles to reach completion – but as yet, no one can say when that might be. Why is the trans-London line causing such pain?
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Crossrail ‘ignored warnings’ scheme would bust deadline
Senior source says bosses knew December 2018 opening date was not realistic well before delay was confirmed