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CommentMaterial world
Is furniture art? What difference does it make if a bench is made of fibreglass or marble? What goes on in a Bangkok luxury hotel? All the answers are here
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CommentToilet humour
The Bog Brush and the Urinal are just two of the suggested nicknames for buildings featured on our website. Phil Clark reports on the high-brow chatter online 鈥�
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The shame game
Your health and safety blunders are all well and good, but just publishing them will not improve safety in the construction industry.
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CommentIn the frame
I鈥檓 sorry to hear about the three contractors featured in your article 鈥淭he men who got left behind鈥� (14 September, page 26) who say they have lost business as a result of framework agreements, but our research has found that it needn鈥檛 be this way.
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Go with the flow
This was an appeal from HHJ Armitage鈥檚 judgement awarding the fees claimed by Weetwood Services Ltd (鈥淲eetwood鈥�) in the sum of 拢7,092.68. Ansvar Holdings Ltd (鈥淎nsvar鈥�) sought planning permission to extend a building they owned for the storage of motor vehicles. A water course traversed this land and ...
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Cut out the (insolvent) middle man
Sydenhams (Timber Engineering) Ltd, the claimant timber company, made a claim in respect of unpaid design and construction work it carried out on a hotel in Bournemouth for CHG Holdings Ltd, the defendant developer. CHG contended that there was never a direct contract between it and Sydenhams and that ...
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CommentA house up a well-known creek
If your home played host to the contents of your neighbours鈥� toilets 17 times in eight years, you might expect the law to offer you some redress. Remarkably, as one London householder found out, it does nothing of the sort
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Think of the children
Bill Watts鈥� argument against the use of biomass to meet schools鈥� energy demands is woolly (24 August, page 32).
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How to take calculated risks
Contracting is a seller鈥檚 market right now, which is forcing more clients to go down the construction management route. As this is more dangerous than other methods, it requires more precautions
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Risky business
The directive to remove the legal obligation on architects trained in the EU to register with the Architects Registration Board, as long as they are working in the UK on a 鈥渢emporary or occasional鈥� basis, is due to be brought in by 20 October (31 August, page 12).
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CommentA is for attestation, B is for breach
Michael Conroy Harris provides a handy bluffer鈥檚 guide for all those who find themselves flustered when dealing with legal terms. This week, A and B 鈥�
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CommentPay attention!
Alistair Campbell in his prime would have struggled to put a positive spin on the progress of the government鈥檚 flagship school building programme.
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CommentWe need another national grid
Britain has been battered by floods and parched by droughts in recent summers. But if we had a national water grid, we could cope with both, argues David Lush
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CommentAkenhead becomes TCC judge
Barrister Robert Akenhead takes on role as judge at the Technology and Construction Court
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CommentTraps on the money trail
Killer clauses聽In the latest of our series on tricky terms and perplexing conditions, Helen Garthwaite looks at the pitfalls that may be concealed in the wording of a bonus mechanism
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CommentIm staying inside
Alex Smith settles down to EP鈥檚 guide to the best in urban design and then intrepidly explores a site that is campaigning to save Captain Scott鈥檚 ill-fated stab at polar architecture
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CommentHow much trouble are we in?
So while the RICS tells us there鈥檚 a 10% chance of an eighties-style housing crash and construction of the Shard is put on hold...