Opinion – Page 448
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CommentNorman’s conquests
Building takes great pride in being the first journal to celebrate British architecture’s life peers, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, on the 40th anniversary of the break-up of Team 4 and the founding of their practices.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Hill International
Christmas may be six weeks away but this lot is already getting into the festive spirit thanks to numerous bottles of Lapin Kulta, a beer brewed in Lapland.
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CommentWrong side of the tracks
Regarding the description of the Divis flats in Belfast (1 November, page 40), I would like to record that “building blunder” is not the key factor leading to it being (rightly) labelled as “ramshackle”.
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Fight fire with fire
The Local Government Association has called for an urgent review of building regulations, following the deaths of four fire-fighters in Warwickshire and wants to see sprinklers fitted to all new buildings.
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CommentThe Arctic who?
Amaya Lopez’s ‘How to survive’ series has returned to Building’s careers website. Here, in a sneak preview, she tackles (with impeccable sensitivity) the problem of being an oldie in the office
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CommentRunning the RIBA
What does it mean to be RIBA president? Do you get to do anything? Is there anything you can learn from your predecessors? Sunand Prasad is about to find out
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CommentWhat the war taught us
The industry launched a campaign three years ago to persuade the government to junk plans for a planning gain supplement and, lo and behold, it succeeded. Now we need to learn the lessons
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Bennett (Electrical) Services vs Inviron
This was a summary judgment application to enforce an adjudication award. A dispute had arisen between the parties in the course of electrical installation works that the Claimant was carrying out for the Defendant. The Claimant referred the dispute to adjudication, however the Defendant asserted that the adjudicator did not ...
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CommentThe many lives of Richard Rogers
He may have made his name as an architectural disemboweller, but he has cemented it with a constantly evolving style and widening interests. Tarek Merlin assesses his career
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The Lords’ diagnosis
Joe Griffiths Can an employer be found negligent if the presence of asbestos fibres in a former worker’s lungs causes clinical depression? The House of Lords thought not
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CommentC is for copyright, D is for defects
The A to Z of construction law Our instant course in legal concepts continues with some advice on how to protect your design ideas and what to do if defects come to light on your building
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CommentStrong language
What Roger Madelin calls King’s Cross protesters, why Constructing Excellence would like to learn Japanese swear words – and what is that terrifying noise coming from the bathroom?
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Building buys a pint for… Anshen + Allen
We meet on a dark autumn’s evening. The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and it’s Halloween tomorrow. Spooky goings-on are afoot.
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CommentConstruction takes centre stage
This week offered a fantastic shop window for construction. First there was the glamour surrounding the Queen’s opening of St Pancras and the high-speed rail link.
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Bad, bad, bad
The suggestion of a 10-15% reduction in the UK’s renewable energy target is bad news on many levels.
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Spread the risk
My first thought on reading your article on the £1bn defence training academy in St Athan, south Wales, (26 October, page 15) was “never put all your eggs in one basket”.
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Hotpants
In your article about BAA being forced to remove plastic windows from listed buildings, Douglas Kent says “putting plastic double-glazed windows into an old building is like dressing your great granny up in hotpants,” and “from an energy conservation viewpoint is one of the least effective measures you can take.”
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