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Development needs to focus on biodiversity to help people and nature
Last week, the world’s leading politicians, top policy wonks and the most decorated climate scientists are gathering in Katowice in Poland for COP24, the UN’s climate change conference. As with most of the climate change conferences in recent history, the backdrop is grim. The current ...
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Small Danish firm pips big names to design 400 sustainable homes
BIG and Henning Larsen Architects among beaten practices
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Image of the week: Mellow yellow
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …
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Construction industry gossip: Make good choices
A Yorkshireman questions why procurement can’t be like buying a loaf of bread and the builders of the tallest tower want their workers to have the healthiest diet
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Building Live: refresh yourselves
Building Live showed what contrasting opinions people have on construction issues and proved how much they care about the industry they work in
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Thought for tomorrow: Rise of the architects
We ask readers to share their visions of the industry in 25 years’ time. Here, Dexter Moren foresees technology offering greater power and control to designers
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Interview: Dar's Andrew Loudon talks to Building
Dar may still be an unfamiliar name to many, but the Beirut-based owner of Currie Brown, Elementa and Perkins+Will has ambitions to grow its operations rapidly in the UK, Brexit notwithstanding
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Sketch of the week: 2018 Engineering Sketches Prize
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Gustaf Granstrom, a senior structural engineer at Heyne Tillett Steel in London
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From the archive: 2008 – A zoo solution
It’s not often that our Building archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine’s dusty library
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Foster's controversial Australian Apple store delayed by a year
The store is now due to open its doors in 2021
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Legal: From Russia without love
International construction arbitration practitioners often stress the positives of arbitration: using the so-called “five Es” of efficiency, expedition, expertise, evenhandedness and enforceability. The Russian Supreme Court has placed enforceability in serious doubt by holding that a standard form ICC arbitration clause is unenforceable under Russian law because there was ...
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Hackitt review and regaining trust: ‘The industry has created a monster’
With the government’s formal response to the Hackitt review of building regulations and fire safety expected soon, a panel of industry experts at Building Live discussed their own responses – and how trust in the sector can be won back
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Foster's Tulip 'baffling', London Eye creator admits
Julia Barfield says thinking behind City tower project is a ‘mystery’
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Case in focus: Adjudication
Ted Lowery on declaratory proceedings arising out of a PFI contract
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G&T rejigs management as managing partner leaves after 40 years at firm
Simon Jones joined cost consultant back in 1977
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Dar plans recruitment drive as it looks to treble £15m turnover
Consultant aims to increase payroll from 120 to 500 people over next three years
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A new apprenticeship scheme makes the architecture profession more viable
The new scheme opens doors for more people who want to join the profession, including HLM’s Daniel Stokes
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Online poll: Mandated margins?
This week’s poll: Should the government mandate a 5% margin for main contractors on public sector work?
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I’m a contractor... get me out of here!
Tony Bingham cheers the appeal court judges who have hacked away 20 years growth of confusion around payment notices