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CommentNot with a bang but a whimper
We鈥檙e fighting our corner with all the eloquence and ferocity of a strangled budgie, and as yet more thousands are laid off, no one is there to so much as protest at our fate, says Richard Steer
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CommentIs Eric Pickles responsible for the fall in housing approvals?
Is it a coincidence that since the communities secretary scrapped regional targets the planning data shows a sharp decline in approvals?
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CommentIt's been an education: Dispatch from Remodelling Education Spaces event
This week鈥檚 conference was a chance for the industry to discuss ways forward in an uncertain post-election world
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CommentLib Dems pick a row over education
Passions run high at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool as they debate free schools and the 鈥檔ew鈥� academies
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Video: What can Swedish free schools teach us?
Interview with Swedish schools expert at this week鈥檚 Remodelling Education Spaces event
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CommentLess really is less
To retrofit a building for energy efficiency, it鈥檚 no good tinkering with insulation or installing a heat pump. Only whole-structure solutions will change our future
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Maglev's inflexible
The only problem with maglev (and the reason it is not being adopted widely, even in China) is its inflexibility and inability to handle the passenger flows moving between cities (3 September, page 38).
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How much wood?
I found the words in 星空传媒鈥檚 leader (27 August, page 3) and the article on timber frame fire risk (page 9) incredible
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CommentHansom: Leaping lizards
There鈥檚 much hurling this week as industry leaders chuck themselves off buildings, press officers throw themselves into their work and Ann Widdecombe launches herself into the highland fling
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CommentFuoco! Fuoco!
Thanks to Rob Kirkaldy of Spectrum Acoustic Consultants for this site scene in Sorrento, southern Italy. Insurers of a nervous disposition may want to look away
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CommentThe industry that played with fire
David Hayhow gives an insurer鈥檚-eye view of the row over whether timber frame is a safe construction material. As you might expect, he has some fundamental concerns
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CommentDonkey work and urban planning
A Kenyan island with an unusual freight-transportation system has inspired Amanda Levete to think again about designing for cities without cars
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Tradition be damned
Ah, the past, how it used to be (Inbox, The silent QSs, 10 September, page 22).
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CommentGreat crested newts!
As your recent article describes (27 August, page 36), the scale of the London Gateway Development - and the fact that the site lies at the heart of one of Europe鈥檚 most important estuary and wetland habitats - presents unique challenges
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How green are our valleys: 星空传媒 Regs in Wales
At the end of next year, the Welsh government will be responsible for building regulations in the principality - and it鈥檚 determined to make them as tough as possible
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One village bypass we don鈥檛 need: Community right to build
Exempting rural community-led developments from the planning system could have unintended and undesirable consequences
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CommentWonders & blunders with Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels is thrilled by the gothic spectacle of the Palace of Westminster but another Thames-side landmark, the Royal National Theatre, is distinctly unmagical
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The big squeeze
Connaught鈥檚 difficulties have highlighted what most of us who work in the social housing repairs sector are already aware of