Opinion – Page 312
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You've got the wrong house
I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (“This house has been designed to be highly sustainable
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Restructure or be left behind
I read with interest ڶ’s recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (“Newport, we have a problem”, 20 August, building.co.uk)
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What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke
Further to your article about Laing O’Rourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed
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A nonsulting request
Those of your readers who managed to read e-ڶ on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for ڶ Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)
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The train line
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.
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It's just a step to the left ...
Our thanks, and the usual £25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.
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A guide to Queensland's construction law
Australia is one of the few places in the world experiencing something of a building boom and if you’re a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.
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A double-dip in house prices isn’t really the problem
The fall in transactions is going to hit the housebuilding industry much harder
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Rachel Shaw: 'This is not the end of exciting education buildings'
Cuts to BSF have meant a sea change for architects working in the education sector and the focus is on making existing buildings work better
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Passivhaus refurb diary, part 5: airtightness testing, take two
The team behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles run a second airtightness test
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The fire alarm is ringing
It’s official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction
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Improvised theatre
This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it’s a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast
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Lorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator
In this case the adjudicator’s mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here’s why…
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Country matters
For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city
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Quentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. ’Children! You can’t fight. This is an NEC contract!’
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It ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74ºC annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers
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Wonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn’t hesitate to praise St Pancras station. But he finds post-war housing repetitive and deviant
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Swedish lessons
It was interesting to read the discussion on building.co.uk about how to harness the “sustainability values” of the 2012 Olympic Games (Green expertise in danger of being lost, 27 July)
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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Hitting the roof
I have asked ڶ for a right to reply to Luke Wessely’s column “Land of the Dachdeckermeister” (6 August, page 25), in which someone with a clear vested interest in a particular form of roofing wanted to suggest that its choice was a no-brainer