All Ӱ articles in 6 December 2013 – Page 3
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Embankment Place: True sustainability
PwC’s Charing Cross office has achieved the highest BREEAM rating ever. But the real merit of this project hasn’t been measured
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My digital life … Paul Turpin
The associate director of HLM on running apps, Arcade Fire, and summing up life in 140 characters
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UK needs housing crisis solution
The UK must look overseas for solutions to its housing crisis if it wishes to succed, writes Peter Vaughan
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Construction and infrastructure pipelines: Put your money where your mouth is
The Treasury wants to look like it’s ready to throw itself behind green policies – but words need to be backed up by action
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Lower help to buy threshold
The government should consider lowering the threshold towards the average house or flat price
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PwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever
When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …
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Wonders and blunders with Brian Teale
Brian Teale admires the futuristic Eden Project’s stately leisure domes, but derides the millennial O2 Centre as a very expensive tent
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Airport capacity: No easy option
Increasing airport capacity is vital but both the Estuary and the Constellation airport ideas come with drawbacks
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Housing for older people: An age-old problem
With an ever-growing elderly population - many of whom need state aid for housing - the public and private sectors must work together to find new ways to provide the amount and type of housing that our older people need
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Architect Archial rebrands as Archial NORR three years after sale
Rebranding follows three years of ownership by Ingenium Group, which trades under the NORR brand in the US, Canada, the Middle East and Asia
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Pinnacle tower to keep ‘helter skelter’ design after review
Redesign seeks to make project viable with changes to floor plates and less retail space, but distinctive design retained
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Adjudicator jurisdiction: The challenge
This case is useful in exploring issues around whether an adjudicator can have jurisdiction to hear a dispute if there is no contract in writing
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Galliford Try sued by Prater over 2012 village delays
Exclusive: The £4.4m claim from cladding firm is second claim Galliford Try faces relating to athletes village
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Pickles rejects Persimmon scheme over design
Rejection sends message that sustainable development must involve good design
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Aires freshener
Foster + Partners brings something new to Buenos Aires, with an apartment block that uses fair-faced finishes to redefine the Argentinian capital’s idea of luxury living
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Fresh delay to £750m public sector framework 'sets off alarm bells'
Consultants hit out at mismanagement and confusion after deadline for submission of bids for major framework put back
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Barriers to BIM
Ӱ Information Modelling has been embraced with gusto by the construction industry - but do Technical, financial and legal worries now stand in the way of further take-up? Joey Gardiner reports on the growing scepticism about BIM
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Top sustainable housebuilders: NextGeneration Initiative
The latest league table from the NextGeneration Initiative reveals mixed results for housebuilders on their sustainability targets this year
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Details of enhanced Green Deal incentives remain unclear
Lack of clarity over government announcement on improving flagship scheme aimed at offsetting ECO cuts
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London airports: Battle of Britain
Last month Sturgis Carbon Profiling published a study favouring the Constellation airport proposal as the solution to London’s airport capacity crisis and slamming the Estuary airport alternative. Here we present both sides of the debate in full
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