All Building articles in 22 June 2018
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Comment
Delivering social value through construction
While the Social Value Act is already delivering benefits since it was formalised in 2013, there is still further scope for contractors to extend this positive impact even further
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Features
Roundtable: Universal BIM
BIM takeup is still increasing, but is the construction industry using it to its full potential? And how can all of the teams across a project be encouraged to do so?
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Comment
To boost female representation, civil engineering must tackle a more fundamental perception challenge
To attract female talent, civil engineers need to become more than the unsung heroes of the built environment
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News
RIBA Enterprises loses battle with VAT man over £1.6m bill
Dispute centred on VAT refunds of just over £2m
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News
Make given the go-ahead for Old Oak homes
Trio of schemes become first private sector jobs to be given the go-ahead in the regeneration project
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Galliford Try takes over from Bouygues on Wolves housing
French giant no longer carrying out low-rise housing
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Comment
Legal: incentivising innovation
In the fifth part of our series on new technology, Andrew Keeley and Maeve Gantley consider whether construction contracts have a role to play in incentivising innovation
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Comment
Hansom: Sharp words
Interserve chief Debbie White counters the verbal jabs of government with understatement, while even a toddler can see the lack of progress on a road upgrade
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Features
Sketch of the week: Monier Road, Hackney Wick, London
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom McAviney, project architect, Pitman Tozer Architects
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Image of the week: Glasgow’s loss
Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building, an iconic art nouveau building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was destroyed by fire on 15 June
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Features
At full tilt: how Manchester velodrome got a new track in record time
When the British national cycling team headed off to Australia in March for the Commonwealth Games, they started a clock back in Manchester for a construction team to replace the wooden track at their velodrome
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Comment
Legal: A dangerous clause
Victoria Peckett considers whether termination-at-will clauses provide a get-out-of-jail-free card
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News
City of London launches trio of frameworks
The City is looking for contractors to carry out more than £800m worth of work
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We need to plug in to electric cars
Electric vehicles with zero emissions are the future, so it is vital government creates the conditions to maximise take-up and build a proper charging point network
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News
Uncertainty continues to blight industry, says latest Arcadis report
Consultant says Carillion’s collapse, Hackitt Review and Brexit have created uncertainty in the industry
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Features
The Active Office - an energy-positive building
The UK’s first energy-positive office, which generates more solar energy than it consumes, opened today at Swansea University
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London mayor ready to join legal action against third runway at Heathrow
Sadiq Khan has said he would favour second runway at Gatwick
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Features
From the archive: 2009
All the current economic and financial challenges facing construction led us to ask which chief executives are up to the mark this week.
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Features
Follow the leader: who can step in to help transform the sector?
Carillion’s collapse has exposed a crisis at the top of the construction industry – a shortage of influential bosses
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Comment
Housing crisis facing a crisis of its own - recruitment
The sector is at a crossroads, and unless we can find a way to solve the recruitment problem and make construction more attractive, we have a problem