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Flight plan
Regional airport terminals now put a premium on image to attract customers. But at the same time, design teams must deliver highly complex functional buildings on a tight budget.
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Rooftop drama
Walsall's bus station was meant to fuel the town's regeneration but four months after its planned opening date, contractors are still working to correct its sagging roof. What went wrong?
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The Inflatable Caf茅
How do you put a concrete and plastic structure in an area of outstanding beauty without spoiling it? Well, you could bury it, make it invisible, or blow it up it to resemble a cloud floating on a hill. Or all three
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Lifting The Lid On Roofing
The roofing industry does not have the best reputation for safety or quality workmanship, but how can it improve its image when main contractors keep insisting on lowest price?
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Power pack
A new roofing product from Germany may come in rolls, but it's not like any other roofing membrane. Thanks to built-in photovoltaic modules, it also generates electricity.
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Charted Territory
Ove Arup's Columbus is billed as a project document management system but, apart from the nifty viewing facilities, it hasn't really discovered anything new yet.
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Home From Hell
The combination of an incompetent trainee surveyor, two wrongly issued certificates and a difficult "domestic" client resulted in 11 years of legal and financial nightmares.
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Cases In Point
Court cases challenging adjudications often focus on whether or not the adjudicator had jurisdiction. Maybe it is time to allow the adjudicator to have some say in deciding his own jurisdiction.
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Rules For Taking Penalties
The Scottish Law Commission is proposing to move the goal posts over penalty clauses by removing the traditional link with pre-estimates of damage.
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Novation without tears
Novation of the consultant's appointment can offer real benefits to a client, but it must do the work to make it work. Otherwise, it can end up with legal nonsense that risks being thrown out of court.
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Know Your Limits
Limited liability partnerships protect individuals from expensive claims. But that is not the only way they differ from traditional partnerships. Why should you consider switching sides?
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Materials whole-life costs
星空传媒 Performance Group's guide to building components' lifespans and life costs tackles domestic kitchen units.
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Tracking system
Recruitment consultant Richard Milsom on the strategies his firm uses to find the leaders of tomorrow.
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City slackers
Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?
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Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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Uphill struggle
The centrepiece of a 拢57m sports centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow. Concreting the 15掳 slope was just one problem this multipurpose building presented.
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Reeling them in
IT: E-commerce Causeway Technologies boss Phil Brown has spent the past year pulling together all the different services he needs to lure customers to his e-marketplace, buildingworks.com.
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Stop right there!
If someone brings an adjudication against you when they have no right, do you have to go through the motions and hope to get it overturned later, or can you get a court to halt it?
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Conspiracy theory
This is the story of how a consulting engineer and a developer misled a client over practical completion, the role a collateral warranty played and how more than 拢1m was spent in pursuit of less than 拢13 000 damages.