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FeaturesSustainability: Green hotels
How green is your hotel? Azita Dezfouli and Adam Mactavish of Sweett Group look at the practical steps for reducing the environmental impact of hotels during design, construction and operation
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CommentTwo sheets of A4 BIM please
There’s a lot of misunderstanding surrounding BIM - essentially it should make all our lives easier
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NewsBuilding up for six journalism awards
Four Building journalists have been shortlisted for the prestigious International Building Press annual journalism awards
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FeaturesInterview: Sarah McCann-Bartlett
The director general of the British Constructional Steel Association on fighting for her members’ interests
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NewsDBK wins £16m Poole resi scheme
Consultant appointed project manager on 80-flat project for older people
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NewsHS2 reaches out to suppliers for £10bn work pipeline
Infrastructure client plans first supply chain conference in Birmingham
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NewsGreen light for South Bank tower cluster
Carlyle Group and PLP’s plans for cluster of nine buildings approved by Southwark Council
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FeaturesHousing a nation
Nobody has yet come up with a convincing way to solve the housing crisis, and now the problem has got so big we need a plan on a national scale to tackle it
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CommentWhy are we so bad at data entry?
Simple errors, such as using the wrong unit of quantity, happen too often and make much of our building performance data meaningless
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CommentBonfire of the houses
Help to Buy will have a sting in the tail in terms of cost and repayment - not to mention house price inflation - and could end badly
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CommentWhere will EU regulation go next?
Sustainable building policy in Europe is evolving and it looks like future regulations will go way beyond energy performance
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NewsCall for space labels for new homes
Housing Forum report says mandatory labelling would drive up standards without regulation
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NewsCross-party panel calls for incentives to save Green Deal
A cross-party panel of MPs and experts describes flagship energy saving scheme as ‘financially unattractive’ and ‘overly complicated’
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NewsNetwork Rail wins consulting role on £4.8bn Sydney rail project
Network Rail’s consulting business has won a role on a £4.8bn rail project in Australia.
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NewsDavid Cameron downgrades role of housing minister
Prime minister’s ministerial reshuffle sees junior minister Kris Hopkins appointed in place of Mark Prisk as housing minister
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NewsFirms on alert as £5bn schools framework launched
The government’s schools capital agency is set to launch a new £5bn regional framework for refurbishment and smaller new build jobs
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CommentSimplicity is the key to BIM FM
Clients have many reasons not to use BIM, but mainly it’s because we as an industry are making it unnecessarily complex for them
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CommentWhat's allowable under allowable solutions?
The government’s consultation on the next steps to zero carbon homes is a chance to argue for the inclusion of embodied carbon
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NewsHouse sales hit four-year high
News comes as government launches mortgage guarantee element of Help to Buy