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CommentThe real avant-garde
Far from learning the lessons of failed 1960s modernism, we are poised to make the same mistakes on a grander scale. What we need is a total rethink
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CommentThe crowds are on the pitch …
In this the 12th year of the Building Awards, we are using the occasion to mark two very special 40-year anniversaries.
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CommentWhy is Part L so bad?
Pretty much everyone in the industry agrees that saving energy and cutting carbon emissions from new buildings by 20% is a Good Thing.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Social housebuilder Colin Dixon likes Amsterdam's best homes but would love to wield the wrecking ball on London's worst shopping mall
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CommentHow To Survive… a CV rewrite
There's a fine line between presenting the best possible interpretation of your work and academic history and doing a Jeffery Archer. Amaya Lopez offers some tips on how to stay on the right side of it.
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CommentBrown's number 10
Three months after everyone thought a recession was inevitable, all the indicators point to a resurgence of growth. Something to do with the Budget perhaps?
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Roofless
Gowlain Bulding Group Ltd entered into a contract to do some building works at a school. Part of the work included re-roofing a boiler house, which Gowlain intended to subcontract to Full Metal Jacket Ltd. Accordingly, Gowlain supplied FMJ with a simple drawing of the roof and requested FMJ ...
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CommentToday's lesson: don't fail
Will Alsop was teaching in Vienna while his practice was being sold off. So what lessons did he have for his students about the cruel facts of an architect's life?
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CommentNotes for newbies
Contract administration used to be architects' work but these days, many professions can bid for the job. Here's what the new kids need to know
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… or not enough?
… and in this article Laurence Cobb and Tom Wrzesien look at a case where the claim was that he didn't look at it at all. The verdict in both was the same
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CommentStub out those roll-ups
This month European judges ruled that a construction firm that awarded "rolled-up" holiday pay to workers in lieu of paid leave acted unlawfully. Here's why
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A positive step, but a small one
I have read the five proposals in your Reform the Regs manifesto (17 March) and I wholeheartedly agree with them.
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Old joke, new punchline
There is an old joke about engineers being good with numbers but remaining illiterate.
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The wrong guests
Before you get too excited about the Building Regulations "summit", let's get back to earth.
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London lags behind
In London there is still confusion over the London Building Act and the national Building Regulations.
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One careful owner?
The Home Information Pack is yet another area where the government is introducing poor quality legislation. It should be repealing regulation by the tonne, not introducing it.
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Too many umbrellas
Construction Confederation = representative body for medium-sized and large contractors