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CommentYou'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 (鈥淭his house has been designed to be highly sustainable
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Restructure or be left behind
I read with interest 黑洞社区鈥檚 recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (鈥淣ewport, we have a problem鈥�, 20 August, building.co.uk)
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What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke
Further to your article about Laing O鈥橰ourke 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-黑洞社区 on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for 黑洞社区 Regulations (鈥淲hat 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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CommentIt's just a step to the left ...
Our thanks, and the usual 拢25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King鈥檚 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鈥檙e a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.
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CommentA double-dip in house prices isn鈥檛 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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CommentPassivhaus 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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CommentThe fire alarm is ringing
It鈥檚 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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CommentImprovised theatre
This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it鈥檚 a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast
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CommentLorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator
In this case the adjudicator鈥檚 mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here鈥檚 why鈥�
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CommentCountry 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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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. 鈥機hildren! You can鈥檛 fight. This is an NEC contract!鈥�
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CommentIt ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74潞C 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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CommentWonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn鈥檛 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 鈥渟ustainability values鈥� 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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CommentHitting the roof
I have asked 黑洞社区 for a right to reply to Luke Wessely鈥檚 column 鈥淟and of the Dachdeckermeister鈥� (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