All Building articles in 27 April 2018
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Severfield weighs up plan to increase work it carries out on smaller jobs
Firm’s products and processing business got up and running earlier this spring
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Take part in Building's Top Consultants of 2018 survey
Every year Building compiles its prestigious league table of the industry’s largest consultants - take part in this year’s survey here
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Comment
Thought for tomorrow: Placemaking
John Clark of contractor Grangewood celebrates the authenticity and personality of place
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Hansom: The way things were
Ah, the olden days, when you could buy a house for £9 a week – and get planning permission to build one in less than eight weeks. This week, it’s all about nostalgia
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Features
Sketch of the week: Diss, Norfolk
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Manolis Sampson, an architectural assistant at ColladoCollins
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Team builder: Flan McNamara talks to Building
Flan McNamara found himself overseeing the creation of the capital’s tallest tower. But it’s all down to the team, not him
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Image of the week: Behind every great city
Parliament Square’s first statue of a woman unveiled
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Apprenticeships: playing for keeps
While a great deal of focus is placed on encouraging people to become apprentices, less stress is put on actually retaining them once they join schemes
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Comment
We can arm ourselves against Brexit through public service investment
Next week the country takes to the polls for local elections, and the results will have a significant impact on future investment in construction and housing
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Thought for tomorrow: Sustainable urbanism
Danny Crump of Broadway Malyan says it is time to reframe the relationship between transport and planning authorities
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Online poll: Footing the bill
This week’s poll: Should other housebuilders follow Barratt’s lead in footing the bill for cladding replacement?
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Labour wins in local elections could jeopardise development PPPs
Source: PA Images Joint ventures between private developers and Labour-run London councils risk being scrapped if the party wins a number of key boroughs in the capital in next month’s local elections. Left-wing activists – led by Jeremy Corbyn-supporting groups such as the Momentum organisation ...
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How to take on the world
An integrated design process could help pave the way for the UK to power its global export drive after Brexit, writes Colin Harding
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Local elections: could Labour force a shift in housing and planning policy?
The party’s push to the left could change housing and planning policy – but are the plans as radical as they sound?
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Why the new NPPF is bad for the north
The deadline for consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework is looming, however, it seems there is one point that has been missed.
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Retentions - appetite for reform
David Christie considers whether outlawing retentions is the best answer to payment practice issues
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Very much obliged
Even without design responsibility, a contractor has an implied duty to warn the employer of possible problems in a design
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Insurers slam cladding fire tests as ‘utterly inadequate’
ABI demands revision of full-scale mock-ups, which it says fail to replicate real world conditions adequately
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Why we should be taking 'smart cities' seriously
The UK could do worse than starting to take the advent of ‘smart cities’ seriously. If nothing else it could make businesses more efficient and the lives of residents, commuters and visitors more tolerable