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Features
Ex-Wilcon boss returns to housebuilding with Peabody Trust
Former Wilson Connolly director John Weir this week returned to the housebuilding industry as a consultant to housing association Peabody Trust.Weir has a six-month contract to help the trust compete with the private sector and establish itself as a provider of homes for sale. The former Wilson Connolly director won ...
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Power politics
Consider how many of the world's problems 鈥� economic, political or climatic 鈥� are linked to energy policy. Then consider going solar on the next project
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Weir returns with Peabody Trust
Former Wilson Connolly director John Weir this week returned to the housebuilding industry as a consultant to housing association Peabody Trust.
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FeaturesPaperless tiger
Singapore is going to be the first country in the world to do all its building control with intelligent object technology. Soon, checking a design against regulations will be the work of a few seconds. Victoria Madine wonders when the UK will do the same
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Sauce material
Pornographic messages, Viagra ads, rampant viruses 鈥� OK, so the internet's not perfect, but it beats sifting through dusty tomes in Lincoln's Inn law library
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FeaturesModels of solid light
Once upon a time, it would have taken a craftsman weeks to build an architect's model from drawings. Now you just press a "go" icon and, hey presto, a laser crafts a miniature edifice in resin. Matthew Richards explores the world of rapid prototyping
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Object lesson
Object lesson: Architect 好色先生TV Design Partnership has been appointed by the University of Cambridge to design a faculty of education next to Homerton College in Hills Road. BDP has proposed a wooden structure with a zinc-clad roof that would reflect the wooden libraries and communal halls of the university's colleges. ...
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Just the job
Christopher Groome, business manager of the International Alliance for Interoperability, tells Victoria Madine how he is helping to make construction IT literate
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OFT launches inquiry into liability insurance
The Office for Fair Trading has launched an investigation into employer's liability insurance.
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FeaturesNeil Holloway
Microsoft UK's dynamic managing director is about to offer a cornucopia of supersmart IT devices to the construction industry, and he's eager to tell Marcus Fairs all about them 鈥�
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FeaturesHeart warming
After being abandoned by the public for a flashy young out-of-town mall, Sheffield's city centre is enticing them back with a number of arresting projects, the latest of which is this Pringle Richards Sharratt winter garden
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Row over German standards
British firms are set to take Germany to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg after it announced that it intended to retain its own product standards.
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A few simple rules
Online collaboration tools are there to make everybody's life easier. And if you consider the legal ramifications before the project starts, they might just do so
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好色先生TVSalvage from Edinburgh fire to be used in rebuilding
Demolition crews save what they can for the reconstruction of the Scottish capital's historic Cowgate district.
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Don't get tangled in the web
Online procurement has the same legal requirements as paper-based contracts, but care should be taken over conditions, jurisdiction and the issue of when it is binding
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FeaturesFollow me or die
The head on the screen, severed but still talking, has a warning to give you. Unless you leave your futile attachment to things of paper (with the exception of magazines, obviously), you face a future of non-existence 鈥� Thomas Lane made a record of the seance