All Building articles in 25 January 2019
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Comment
Staged completion: It's just a phase
Stephanie Canham explains why staged completion must be handled with care
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News
Contractors geared up for £70m of work in Portsmouth
Portsmouth council is looking for three or four design and build contractors to work on the Dunsbury Park development
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Contractors put on notice for £25m Royal Veterinary College job
Work is due to start in the summer
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Comment
‘Decent’ housing must guarantee quality internet connections
Full-fibre broadband offers so much more than access to Netflix - it can change lives, writes Jeremy Chelot
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Features
Break through: how AI and machine learning could transform construction
Advances in AI and machine learning could be about to transform the construction sector, using techniques such as image recognition and analysis to reduce risk, prevent schedule overruns, and improve cost-effectiveness.
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Features
Sketch of the week: Science Gallery, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Rob Haworth, associate director at LTS Architects
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: You've got to laugh
Andrew Marr gets the BCO giggling with pseudo-sympathy for the Mays and conductor Simon Rattle goes overboard on the architectural trash talk
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News
City watchdog widens Carillion probe
Financial Reporting Council looking at whether performance of key contracts was reflected in financial results
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Comment
The game of business: what can it teach us?
Game theory teaches us that in the world of business, talk about ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ is just a nonsense, writes Alinea’s Iain Parker
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News
Retentions bill second reading moved to March
Peter Aldous’ private member’s bill had been due to be heard today
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Comment
In the stream age - how do we commoditise our data?
If we look outside the sector for inspiration we can find new ways of approaching our data that can bring a singular change in the way we do things
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News
Grayling says government remains committed to HS2 phase two
Transport Secretary labels suggestions that the second stage of the controversial rail project might not happen as “completely inaccurate”
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Features
From the archive: 1999 - Tomorrow's world
Ten years before this week’s exploration of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Building offered readers a “cornucopia” of 99 things to look out for in 1999
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News
Relief as UK confirms it will adopt EU standards for construction products post no-deal Brexit
Manufacturers looking to export to the EU still in limbo with the government unable to say if British standards would be recognised in the event of a no-deal Brexit
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Council to bin plans for bridges designed by Foster + Partners
Suffolk authority has already spent £8m but now says it cannot afford proposed crossings
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Comment
Legal: Not so privileged
Assuming that legal privilege extends to in-house lawyers can be a costly error
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News
Mixed results on gender pay gap at first consultants to update figures
But Norman Foster’s practice sees numbers improve
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Commercial and industrial sectors at a standstill, says RICS
Survey says uncertainty over Brexit outcome is beginning to bite
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Comment
Build safe, not sorry
Stephanie Canham examines how the revised Building Regulations to limit cladding material use will affect construction disputes
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Comment
Public consultations could be so much better if they started the conversation earlier
Let’s design in collaboration with the people who care about the outcomes the most