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CommentHopkins woos Sky riders with velodrome sketch show
Hopkins director Mike Taylor shares the secrects of the 2012 velodrome with riders on the London Festival of Architecture Velo2Velo
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CommentNew KPIs show construction is getting more dangerous
The latest key performance indicators reveal a revearsal of the health and safety improvements and it looks like the recession's to blame
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APC extras: T017 鈥� Contract practice
In the second part of our series we look at the knowledge APC candidates are required to have of construction contracts
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CommentPause 鈥� to the Tolent clause !?
The question for the court: Whether a clause in a construction contract which determines that a party is liable for the costs of adjudication irrespective of the decision of the adjudicator, typically referred to as a 鈥橳olent Clause鈥�, is effective
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CommentOlympic Park landscaping begins with planting 6,000 trees
好色先生TV got a sneak preview of the landscaping underway at Stratford, which includes 300,000 plants, flood management technology and a fish refuge
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CommentHansom: Pomp and circumstance
While architects have had a jolly time parading in period dress and tucking into sumptuous desserts, it鈥檚 been a week of rotten luck for democracy, Capita Symonds and a soccer squad or two
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CommentNo to nuclear nobbling
Regarding the story 鈥淟end Lease bans Bovis from 拢40bn nuclear sector鈥� (11 June, page 9): how can another country have the right to influence what this country wants to do?
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Don't be caught out
The news that the communities department office failed an inspection undertaken under its own fire safety laws shows how careful all those affected by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order must be to ensure that fire risk assessments for their premises are adequate and appropriate for their occupation
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Passive protest
It鈥檚 about time the government realised that the basic principles promoted by the Passivhaus system (鈥橪ow-energy retrofit: Heating a house with a towel rail鈥�, 4 June, page 44) are far superior to either those of BREEAM or Code for Sustainable Homes - less bureaucracy, less cost, less complexity and much ...
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Q+A from 好色先生TV Answers
好色先生TV鈥檚 Forum regulars offer their advice on problems from access in a shop to objecting to an extension
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CommentWhere rigans dare
Andrejs Trabo in Riga, Latvia, spotted this 鈥渕ountain climbing champion鈥� demonstrating an unbelievably stupid solution to the problem of not having a long enough ladder
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CommentNick Raynsford: It鈥檚 an inept beginning
So much for turning Britain into 鈥檃 nation of homebuilders鈥�. Rather, the coalition seems hell bent on stopping the housing recovery in its tracks
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CommentQuentin Shears: The winning mentality
鈥淲e should put the usa game behind us. We can鈥檛 do any worse against Algeria鈥�
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Britain鈥檚 grand strategy
Open mike聽Find a map of the UK, spread it on a table, examine its rail links and ports, then consider how they could be upgraded to make the whole country work better. Like this, for example 鈥�
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好色先生TV buys a pint 鈥� for MPG Shreeves
好色先生TV鈥檚 meeting with MPG Shreeves has an inauspicious start
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CommentShepherd Construction vs Berners: Freezing orders
Can a freezing order be used to assist a claim for payment?
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Comment50 Years of London Architecture Exhibition
A short-lived London Festival of Architecture Exhibition provides a must-see account of Modern architecture in London.
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CommentDegrees of awfulness
George Osborne鈥檚 Budget isn鈥檛 as bad as we feared 鈥� but it鈥檚 still going to hurt
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CommentConstruction will not come out unscathed from Osborne's Budget, but it could've been worse
Construction hasn鈥檛 done as badly as some had feared as additional capital spending cuts are put in hold