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Features
Solar power: just a bright idea
With the ice caps melting and oil prices soaring, solar has never looked a better bet. But in Britain it remains the concern of cranks and visionaries. Will this ever change?
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Robert Jones
The former Conservative construction minister is now chairman of housebuilder Redrow. Which means he’s back with his first love: planning.
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Comment
We are the champions
Awards build team spirit and remind clients and the public how important the industry is. In fact, we could do with a few more of them.
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Going with the grain
Something is afoot in the land of the log cabin. To help boost its timber exports, Finland has developed a range of high-tech wooden products and built striking structures to showcase them.
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The stuff of beams
FBEAM is a new software tool for designing long-span fabricated beams in commercial buildings. Is this the program structural engineers have been waiting for?
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Don’t listen to chickens
So, the Discain case has knocked the wheels off the entire adjudicatory system, has it? Don’t you believe it – the judge was just making a perfectly fair point about being perfectly fair.
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Variations on a theme
The dispute over how to value variations under the ICE form, recently considered by the Court of Appeal, has just been given another twist by the Technology and Construction Court.
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A natural reaction
The Discain case has fuelled the debate over the conduct of adjudications where one party feels there has been a breach of natural justice that affected the outcome.
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Cost study: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The diversity of performing arts buildings makes it hard to talk about a typical case, but the £7m refurbishment of Birmingham Repertory Theatre reveals some common issues
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Just the job
What makes a gym manager want to become a surveyor? Berit Eis asks a Willmott Dixon trainee who did.
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Appointments
ContractorBalfour Beatty Construction has appointed Colin Smith safety, quality and environmental director.HousebuildersEdward Milner has joined Gleeson Homes (North-west) as commercial manager, based in the Blackburn office. Pegasus Retirement Homes has appointed Adrian Stokes, formerly with Virgin Western, commercial manager.Retirement homes specialist McCarthy & Stone has appointed Howard Phillips operations director ...
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Top 250 consultants
Welcome to this year's consultants survey, which finds the top 250 firms in the best of health. Expanding workloads are reflected in swelling staff numbers, with most firms employing more UK chartered staff this year than last. More than 90% say they expect to take on staff in the next ...
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Falkirk's millennium wheel starts to roll
Site work begins on £78m, 17 000 tonne rotating boat lift that will link two Scottish canals.
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Rough and tumble
Undoing deals on the grounds of economic duress is difficult, as shown by a recent decision of Mr Justice Dyson in the Technology and Construction Court.
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News
Plans for a rival to the London Eye grind to a halt
Building Design Partnership admits that with no suitable site or sponsor, its Prague big wheel is a low priority.
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Vauxhall vote puts urban regeneration in doubt
Tenants’ vote to reject plans for £440m St George/Wimpey development casts shadow over other schemes.
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Chile turns to UK for help on infrastructure
UK contractors and consultants are set to cash in on a £60bn infrastructure programme in Chile as its government seeks construction partners familiar with new procurement forms. The five-year construction programme, due to start next year, is double the usual Chilean capital spend and Chile wants to ensure it gets ...
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Firms link up to bring Dutch housing methods to UK
Joint venture of Ballast Wiltshier, MacConvilles and King Sturge will specialise in tunnel-form construction.
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Mace man named manager of the year
Youth won the day at the Building Manager of the Year Awards as a 36-year-old Mace project manager walked off with the overall prize.Ian Eggers, who is managing the construction of the Foster and Partners-designed Greater London Authority headquarters, beat off more than 80 competitors in the Chartered Institute of ...