More Comment – Page 299
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CommentWonders & blunders with Alice Milligan
Alice Milligan admires Glasgow School of Art’s main building, designed by aluminus Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but finds the neighbouring Bourdon Building lazy
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CommentHansom: High society
We’re up in the social stratosphere this week: dress sense at the Lords, Canary Wharf Group’s plans for the great unwashed, and One Hyde Park’s elusive residents - only high jinks at the Shard lower the tone
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CommentA long way to go
The Balfour Beatty’s latest troubles and the collapse of Rowecord Engineering indicate that construction is far from being out of the woods
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CommentShedding light on sports halls
Good daylight, good insulation and renewable energy shouldn’t be set in competition against each other
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CommentSame old story at Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty should have sorted out its businesses years ago
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CommentBIM: A long way to go?
There’s lots of optimism about what BIM can offer – but it is far from being fully integrated in the industry yet
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CommentBlowing in the wind
“Not only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,” notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
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CommentThe future is BIM
This year’s BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM – but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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CommentUnreasonable conduct: Webb Resolutions Limited vs JV Limited t/a Shepherd Chartered Surveyors
In this case the claimant’s solicitors produced an order which failed to reflect what had been directed by the court – and their manoeuvres did not impress the judge
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CommentProfessional negligence dispute: On the rocks
When a judge blocked a £3m award to whisky maker Whyte Mackay, he questioned whether a professional negligence dispute should have come to adjudication at all
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CommentMy working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs
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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
Building’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney
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CommentMy digital life … Paul King
The Green Building Council chief executive on converting to Macs, guitar heroes of the sixties and seventies, and temperamental iPad Notes
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CommentDoing business in Iraq: Tread carefully
A decade after the invasion of Iraq there are opportunities for UK firms in the country’s infrastructure sector. But they must be aware of the legal framework they will be working in
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CommentGreen rating systems: Bespoke solutions needed
An assessment of the problems with green building rating systems following last week’s feature article
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CommentPermitted development work will not help
Eric is getting in a right pickle (Pickles promises to revise home extensions plan, www.building.co.uk, 16 April 2013). This is a piece of ill thought-out legislation, which will not create more work for the building trade and will just cause a lot of neighbour disputes. There are already too many ...
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CommentDownward spiral continues with Osborne
The chancellor is to blame for blocking the industry’s recovery
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CommentStop kicking up a fuss
The lawyers in this case raised a number of clever, interesting technical objections. Which were quite rightly dismissed. Let’s just stick to the facts, eh?
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CommentHansom: Out on the tiles
Nocturnal celebrations of a bacchanalian nature are a feature of this week’s hectic schedule - leaving more sober heads to advise on flood defences, though a junior minister puts a spanner in the works