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CommentBuilding on Flickr: Town hall in Zaanstad
The town hall of the municipality of Zaanstad in the Netherlands, designed by Sjoerd Soeters. Photograph by Klaas Vermaas
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CommentA happy workplace
Happy workers are more productive than miserable ones, but what generates happiness in the first place? Here’s the secret according to Stephen Gee at John Rowan and Partners, which topped our Good Employer Guide this week
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CommentIt’s time to kick-start a housing revolution
Local government holds a once in a lifetime opportunity to shape the communities in which we live
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CommentDesign and build contracts: Confusion guaranteed
We have got used to thinking that there is an implied fitness for purpose warranty in a design and build contract. But a recent case has muddied the waters
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CommentPoliticians need to act now
Unless vital infrastructure projects are delivered, the economy risks even deeper problems
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CommentOn the road
Construction of road infrastructure can exemplify collaborative and modern methods of working
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CommentStandardised schools: The customer is always right
From a child’s perspective, schools being standardised nationally is irrelevant
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CommentCramped and loo-les
Victorian terrace houses had to accomodate larger families in smaller spaces
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CommentSlimming down a giant
The announcement of Balfour Beatty’s restructure has certainly been long in the making, but whether it’s a reactive or proactive is less clear
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CommentHansom: Rock and rile
While the mayor of Newham goads his audience at the London Property Summit, a director’s rousing speech is given from a table top and a gorilla-suited drummer gives a lesson on how to work a crowd
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CommentMy digital life ... Rob Firth
The HOK practice building director on the BBC sport website, checking Twitter and why he prefers to meet face to face
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CommentCIL: Nice little earner
The Community Infrastructure Levy was brought in to speed up development but the tariffs being set seem so arbitrary – and so hard to challenge – that it could have just the opposite effect
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CommentAd-hoc adjudication: Cheque mate
An adjudicator decided that two parties had entered into an ad-hoc adjudication by dint of having paid his – rather hefty – fees upfront. But the TCC had other ideas
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CommentWonders & blunders with Terry Tommason
The Middle East’s lack of planning rules gives architects an unparalleled freedom, which can result in a certain purity of design or ridiculous extravagances, says Terry Tommason
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CommentWhat is the optimism in the latest RICS construction survey telling us?
The improvement in workload may be coming from overseas rather than the UK market
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CommentGreen Deal incentives need to be permanent
We need a mechanism that will drive the retrofit market for years to come, not another cycle of boom and bust
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CommentThe real home truth is that the government can and should do more to boost house building
If the state wants more homes it will have to build those homes itself
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CommentSpread your wings
Building and Ecobuild have launched the Global Clients Group, bringing you the latest insights from clients driving the sustainability agenda
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CommentLandmark projects: How to spot a flop from 100 yards
Projects likely to lose a contractor millions of pounds don’t always have ‘failure’ written all over them, but there are warning signs that should make anyone pause