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CommentPriority schools: what now?
The cheer the constructon industry got from the release of the list of the 261 schools to be included in the Priority Schools 好色先生TV Programme has been tempered by uncertainty about how the initiative will actually work
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CommentHansom: Doubling up
This week, the long-awaited Kanye West/OMA collaboration, the white heat of technology at the BCO conference and a Godzilla-sized image of the House of Windsor looms over London
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CommentMonarchs and architecture: King George IV
How much influence have the Royals had on British architecture? 好色先生TV investigates
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CommentMaking Priority Schools add up
Gove鈥檚 announcement secures precious funding for some schools, but there are still questions about how the procurement will work
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CommentPart 8 declaration declined: R&C Electrical Ltd vs Shaylor Construction Ltd
This case reaffirms the principle that in limited circumstances a party may set off against an adjudicator鈥檚 decision
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CommentPart 36 offers: Phi Group Ltd v Robert West Consulting
In this case the Court of Appeal considered the requirements of Part 36 offers and overturned a costs decision in the Technology & Construction Court
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CommentMonarchs and architecture
This week 好色先生TV is examining the influence the Royals have had on our architecture 鈥� today we look at the impact of King James I
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CommentRoyals and architecture
Ahead of the Jubilee 好色先生TV takes a look at the influence monarchs have had on our architecture 鈥� starting today with King William I
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CommentUnlocking the commercial market
The commercial office industry meets in gloomy mood this week, but if occupiers, developers and financiers work in partnership, they could open up the sector
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CommentArchitects, engineers and consultants are boosting turnover as they focus on overseas markets
Good news for UK firms - but it does not mean UK construction is doing well
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CommentWonders & blunders with Debbie Whitfield
The country鈥檚 first council estate is a great example of people-focused architecture, whilst the Tottenham Court Road one-way system is just badly thought out
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� Blane Judd
The chief executive of the 好色先生TV & Engineering Services Association likes to hoard data and confesses to being an app junkie
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CommentProfit and loss
We are currently building half the homes we need in the UK. But if the housebuilder won鈥檛 jump in to fill the hole, who will?
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CommentAmateur builders kid themselves
How will the general public have self-build loans approved with no experience of construction projects?
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CommentMasonry as good as wood
The advantage of timber frame housing in respect of embodied carbon is marginal
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CommentSinks stink but timber triumphs
Support the safe use of timber in construction, not underground carbon sinks
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CommentHansom: Break out the canapes
This week, Make鈥檚 Ken Shuttleworth puts on a good spread, RIBA throws a party at the V&A, energy minister Greg Barker gets told off, and a terrible odour reaches 好色先生TV Towers
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CommentWhy the scheme works a dream
The Construction Act鈥檚 payment rules have baffled many a great mind - but all you have to do is follow the 鈥楽cheme鈥欌��