All Building articles in 31 May 2019
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Features
Sketch of the week: Millbrook Park, north London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Kate Yung, practice illustrator at Assael Architecture
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Features
Smart buildings – the case for smart enablement
Smart, intelligent, or integrated buildings have been a topic of conversation in the construction industry for at least the last 30 years. They have often been considered prohibitively expensive, with questionable return on investment due to perceived complexities, brittleness and high ongoing maintenance costs. This article aims to show ...
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Comment
5 minutes with... Richard Flisher, managing director, CPMG Architects
Richard Flisher tells Building about late payments, staying positive and flying
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Features
From the archive: 2003 - A lot of hot air
A huge range of opinions have been voiced about Battersea Power Station’s redevelopment
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Image of the week: That empty feeling
The European parliament building looking strangely under-occupied this week
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Comment
How to get paid on time
A guide to help small firms avoid bad debts by taking preventative steps
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Look, darling, it's twins!
Doppelgangers, parallel versions of Shoreditch and a man of God speaks doom and gloom
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Comment
Legal: Swansea stadium and the dangers of change
Victoria Peckett points out that the Swansea stadium defects case highlights how altering provisions in standard forms can have unfortunate results
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Comment
Brexit clauses are not the way forward for the economy
Tenants trying to use Brexit as an excuse to break lease agreements is worrying for landlords
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Features
Battersea Power Station: Powering up?
The Battersea Power Station redevelopment has hit the headlines countless times. But how is work progressing now? Building visited the site to find out
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News
Battersea Power Station says Phase two buyers can back out
Development company already admitted Phase 3a would miss guaranteed completion dates for homes
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News
Lendlease nets £148m overhaul of Australian Open home
New scheme latest haul for contractor on Melbourne venue
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Projects: Exploring ‘the third space’
Three new London commercial schemes explore the ‘in-between’ areas that are neither home nor workplace, neither public nor private
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News
Homes England in row over ‘unauthorised’ contract notices
Government’s housing delivery agency investigating release of notices on OJEU
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Comment
Beanbags and masterplanning
The home-from-home trend sweeping our public spaces shows that as living space in big cities grows more dense, people are crying out for areas to relax and socialise
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News
Phase one finishes at Boaty McBoatface Antarctic wharf
Bam and Ramboll pause work because winter is coming
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Comment
Once the aim was homes for heroes – now it’s fitness for human habitation
Inadequate housing supply and poor-quality homes are a problem that in the 21st-century we should be able to solve
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News
Westminster after firms to pull down Chelsea housing estate
Demolition contractors to send in bids for £3m deal in early July