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What is sustainable construction, exactly?
The DETR's mantra for 1999 is sustainable construction. But what exactly is it? Who is responsible for it and what can it do for you? Building provides some answers.
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Model villages
Energy efficiency: low-energy housing Future homes will have to comply with the government's energy-saving plans. Two South-east schemes are proposed models: which is better?
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Solar power to the people
Energy efficiency:Thin-film photovoltaics Photovoltaic panels boost green credentials, but recouping their cost has always been a problem. Now, thin-film technology, coming to the UK for the first time in Canon UK's HQ, is set to change all that.
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Chinese whispers
When information is revealed in confidence, solicitors must never divulge it. Fair enough, you say. But what remedy does a client have if a former solicitor starts working for a current opponent? Fair enough. But what happens
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Unknown territory
Nobody wants to make the arduous and risky journey to court, but only the intrepid few have explored the new adjudication short cut. Now it seems their experiences are about to be made into a reliable map.
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How long can you stay?
A recent court decision seems to imply that more disputes are referable to arbitration than was previously thought.
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The breakdown of trust
The relationship between the designer and the contractor is in danger of getting out of control, forcing designers to concentrate on their own legal protection as much as satisfying the client.
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Green scheme
The latest design package can help decide the viability of low-energy schemes at an early stage in development.
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Tender price forecast
Construction output is still expected to grow in the next two years, although more slowly than previously thought. However, with concerns about skills shortages and pressure on M&E prices, predictions for tender price inflation over the next 12 months remain unchanged at 2-5%.
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Firms hit by tough tax and risk rules
Inland Revenue to introduce early payments plan; code of governance to enforce clampdown on risk.
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Merged architects aim for overseas markets
Overseas expansion is a priority for the architectural practice formed out of the merger of Abbey Hanson Rowe and Holford Associates.The pair announced the merger deal, which will create a new top 10 practice, this week after nine months of talks.The practice, which will have 330 staff, will start trading ...
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Make contact
Christine Little, chief executive of the Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services, tells Nancy Cavill her top 10 tips for networking.
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Appointments
Contractors Britannia Construction has appointed Jon Woolfe financial director. Mike Mann is deputy managing director. Nigel McArthur has been appointed regional construction director at EBC Construction, a division of the EBC Group. Housebuilders Nigel Perryman has been appointed deputy group finance director of the Shaftesbury ...
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Wildcat strike threat to Millennium Dome
Angry steel erectors threaten unofficial action to increase pressure on pay negotiators.
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Row hots up over Home Office's PFI 'mausoleum'
Claims of misuse of public money fly as government weighs up rival redevelopment plans.
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Rogers may suggest brownfield cash boost
Urban Taskforce chairman Lord Rogers this week confirmed that he may recommend financial reforms to encourage the development of brownfield sites. A taskforce spokesman added: Producing additional financial resources to implement some of the taskforce measures is under consideration. The comments were made at the launch of the ...
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Revealed: what £100m McLaren HQ will look like
First published picture of Foster’s masterplan for kidney-shaped Paragon headquarters in Woking.
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Amey/Kvaerner land MOD headquarters
A team including Amey and Kvaerner has been chosen to carry out a privately financed redevelopment of the Ministry of Defence's Whitehall headquarters worth up to £800m over 30 years. Engineer Hyder and funder Innisfree are the other members of the AHK consortium that won the redevelopment competition. The ...
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Henry Boot to repair rust at Isle of Wight hospital
Contractor lands four-year, £15.9m recladding deal on trailblazing eight-year-old hospital.
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£320m national stadium to go on site in 2000
Construction work is scheduled to start early next year on a £320m national stadium at Wembley. Lottery-backed client English National Stadium Company this week struck a deal to purchase the existing stadium from leisure group Wembley plc. The company will pay for the stadium with £103m of a £120m Sports ...