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CommentImprovised theatre
This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it鈥檚 a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast
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CommentLorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator
In this case the adjudicator鈥檚 mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here鈥檚 why鈥�
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CommentCountry matters
For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city
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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. 鈥機hildren! You can鈥檛 fight. This is an NEC contract!鈥�
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CommentIt ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74潞C annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers
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CommentWonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn鈥檛 hesitate to praise St Pancras station. But he finds post-war housing repetitive and deviant
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Swedish lessons
It was interesting to read the discussion on building.co.uk about how to harness the 鈥渟ustainability values鈥� of the 2012 Olympic Games (Green expertise in danger of being lost, 27 July)
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
好色先生TV that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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CommentHitting the roof
I have asked 好色先生TV for a right to reply to Luke Wessely鈥檚 column 鈥淟and of the Dachdeckermeister鈥� (6 August, page 25), in which someone with a clear vested interest in a particular form of roofing wanted to suggest that its choice was a no-brainer
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Enforcing no set-off clauses
In her otherwise excellent column on the 2010 RIBA forms of architect鈥檚 appointment (A return to a simpler time, 13 August), Rachel Barnes predicts that a court may decline to enforce the no set-off clause
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Controlling interest
Doom and gloom followed the latest Construction Trade Survey鈥檚 reports. But this forecast of a bleak future should be seen as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and challenge the way the industry works
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CommentHansom: The spice of life
Suspicious goings-on in the bedroom, recalcitrant plumbing in an ancient loo, growing pains at the Olympics and the case of the disappearing numbers - you can鈥檛 say we don鈥檛 bring you variety
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Karsan Vaghani: Universities don't need iconic buildings any more
Higher education cuts mean the priorities for university estates is changing and value for money is now key
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CommentPassivhaus refurb diaries, part 4: The day of the airtightness test
The architect behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles reviews the results of the first airtightness test鈥�
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CommentAedifice vs Mr Ashwin Shah: Does the adjudicator have jurisdiction?
The process of objecting to an adjudicator鈥檚 jurisdiction has to be conducting properly, as this case highlights鈥�
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CommentNewport: We have a problem...
The recent upsurge in the construction output figures has baffled the industry, so is it all a cock-up on the part of the ONS statisticians in Wales?
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Global job opportunities: Think the unthinkable
Why you should consider working in Saudi Arabia
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CommentHow to challenge an adjudicator's jurisdiction
Here's a quick guide, courtsey of the courts, on how to object to an adjudicator resolving your dispute
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CommentWhy does BREEAM ignore embodied carbon?
Discussion about the future of BREEAM has so far not included this major element of a building鈥檚 overall carbon performance