All Building articles in 7 June 2019
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Legal: When is fraud relevant?
Fraud can be raised as a defence in adjudication case or to avoid an enforcement, but it must be strictly relevant
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London's flats need to live for the future
Decaying buildings littering any skyline are obviously unacceptable; we also shouldn’t cling onto the past
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Understanding the Lot 21 EcoDesign Directive
Air heating and cooling products are affected by a regulatory regime on energy efficiency that is becoming ever stricter. Here we explain the rules and how one manufacturer, Daikin, is responding
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Sketch of the week: Cumberland Basin, Bristol
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Martin Douglas, director at Pad Design
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Legal: A boost for third-party rights
The Court of Appeal has confirmed a robust approach to third-party rights in contracts
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Time to end our complacency about climate change
Construction needs fresh thinking from every participant in a building’s lifecycle
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Tracker: April 2019
Overall activity kept falling but more slowly this month, with residential the only sector to see an actual rise
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Image of the week: Inflated ego?
The refurbishment of the Elizabeth Tower got an outsize visitor this week
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News
Henry Boot homes in on £50m Sheffield resi work
Build-to-rent deal will include more than 350 units
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Keith Waller: Construction's improvement tsar
How will the Construction Innovation Hub spend £72m budget and four years to bring the industry into the 21st century?
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Construction Innovation Hub: if only we'd had it sooner
The industry has been talking about reform for decades, but we may finally now be at a turning point
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Legal: BIM standards made simple
The new international standard on BIM could take some getting to grips with – but guidance is being developed
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Features
From the archive: 2015 - Stuck on the ground
Political uncertainty over infrastructure policy isn’t a new thing
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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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Firms land places on Dounreay work
Aecom, Atkins and Kier appointed to latest work at Scottish site
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Infrastructure policy: ‘Delay and procrastination’
But with the government paralysed by Brexit, what hope is there construction will get the clarity on infrastructure it needs?
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Construction industry gossip: Strait is the gate
A cities of the future event prompts a dodgy way to travel and a council aiming for decor neutrality ends up rather off-colour
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Details of latest Stratford Waterfront contract revealed
London Legacy Development Corporation looking for firm to work on new Sadler's Wells’ base
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Making Hackitt happen
Creating a competence framework to respond to the Hackitt report has brought about the biggest-ever alliance of construction organisations