All Building articles in 8 June 2018
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Comment
How redeveloping transport hubs can unlock urban regeneration
We need to build 300,000 to meet growing demands of a growing population. But we need to adopt a joined-up approach to housing and transport in order to succeed
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Legal: Speaking doesn't make it so
A new and momentous Supreme Court ruling makes ‘NOM’ clauses banning oral modification far more effective
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Features
Cost model: Transport-led development
Building on top of and around transport hubs such as rail and bus stations can create much needed new homes in ideally connected locations, but the viability of such transport-oriented developments depends on complex factors
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Making great places requires creative collaboration from all sides
We need policies that create great places. And we need leadership from the public sector that comes with a compelling vision for growth and an honest depiction of the trade-offs inherent in delivering it, writes Anna Bond
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GDPR: The 12 step approach
Tony Bingham explains the ins and outs of GDPR compliance, and how to make sure you don’t fall foul of the new data rules
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Thought for tomorrow: Women and young people
We ask readers to share their visions of the construction industry in 25 years’ time
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Legal: The benefits of escrow
John Hughes D’Aeth explains the protections offered to main contractors by a different kind of model form – the City of London Law Society’s newly published escrow agreement
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Comment
Hansom: Mind your language
While Taylor Wimpey takes to literature to win over the nation’s youth to the construction cause, some people just need to wash their mouths out
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Features
Online poll: Russian revolution
This week’s poll: Has Russia done itself proud with its World Cup football stadiums?
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Social value: how to be good
When it comes to doing the right thing we all need a little nudge now and then. Five years on, we look at the impact the Social Value Act has had
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News
Banks pull funding for Midland Metropolitan hospital
Job has been stalled since Carillion collapsed
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Former airports bosses tell MPs to approve Heathrow expansion
Sir Howard Davies and Sir John Armitt have written to MPs ahead of a vote on the proposal
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Hackitt could prompt new site safety role
Rise of so-called ‘reassurance roles’ predicted following last month’s report
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Features
Image of the week: Cross purposes
Last weekend the spans were lifted into position for a new 135m-wide public footbridge connecting business campus Chiswick Park to the eponymous tube station in west London
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Sketch of the week: Bartlett Park, Poplar, east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Archie Bashford, a landscape architect at Levitt Bernstein
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All words, no action
The right noises are being made following the fire at Grenfell Tower, but what really matters is what happens next
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Features
From the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
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News
Bridge job up for grabs at East Bank cultural quarter
Structure will link site previously known as Olympicopolis with nearby shopping centre
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Carillion liquidation set to cost the taxpayer £148m, says National Audit Office
Public spending watchdog says it could take years to know final cost