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CommentArchitects Registration Board: Know your place
An architect has been struck off for getting into debt. But is this really 鈥榩rofessional misconduct鈥� to anyone other than the Lord Snootys of the profession?
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CommentHansom: Ah, the memories
Let鈥檚 go back in time with thought-provoking graffiti from the sixties, a return to the slow pace of barge travel, and the recollection of how the 2012 Olympics promised so much for contractors
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CommentLegal brief: Do architects certificates operate as contracts?
A decision by Mr Justice Akenhead in a recent case provides some clarity
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CommentTIF of the iceberg
Battersea鈥檚 Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?
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CommentWind farms: Second generation
A lot of lessons have been learned about the technical side of building wind farms. But what about contracts? Lindy Patterson looks at how things have changed in the last decade
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CommentWillmott Dixon vs Newlon: A case in points
Tony Bingham鈥檚 column on the recent Willmott Dixon vs Newlon Housing dispute focused on procedural objections - but there鈥檚 an awful lot more to the case than that
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� James Baker
The chartered surveyor on why he doesn鈥檛 use a Mac, becoming an iPhone convert, and online shopping
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CommentWonders & blunders with Alice Milligan
Alice Milligan admires Glasgow School of Art鈥檚 main building, designed by aluminus Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but finds the neighbouring Bourdon 星空传媒 lazy
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CommentHansom: High society
We鈥檙e up in the social stratosphere this week: dress sense at the Lords, Canary Wharf Group鈥檚 plans for the great unwashed, and One Hyde Park鈥檚 elusive residents - only high jinks at the Shard lower the tone
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CommentShedding light on sports halls
Good daylight, good insulation and renewable energy shouldn鈥檛 be set in competition against each other
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CommentA long way to go
The Balfour Beatty鈥檚 latest troubles and the collapse of Rowecord Engineering indicate that construction is far from being out of the woods
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CommentSame old story at Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty should have sorted out its businesses years ago
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CommentBIM: A long way to go?
There鈥檚 lots of optimism about what BIM can offer 鈥� but it is far from being fully integrated in the industry yet
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CommentBlowing in the wind
鈥淣ot only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,鈥� notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
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CommentThe future is BIM
This year鈥檚 BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM 鈥� but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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CommentUnreasonable conduct: Webb Resolutions Limited vs JV Limited t/a Shepherd Chartered Surveyors
In this case the claimant鈥檚 solicitors produced an order which failed to reflect what had been directed by the court 鈥� and their manoeuvres did not impress the judge
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CommentProfessional negligence dispute: On the rocks
When a judge blocked a 拢3m award to whisky maker Whyte Mackay, he questioned whether a professional negligence dispute should have come to adjudication at all
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CommentMy working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs