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The requirements of a valid payment notice issued under a construction contract were considered in a previous update: “A Payment Notice? Be Clear?” with reference to the case of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust v Logan Construction (South East) Ltd (“Surrey and Sussex”) a decision of t
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Plans for a new restaurant and whisky bar overlooking Dundee’s famous and historic Howff cemetery have been branded “distasteful and, beyond doubt, disrespectful” by a conservation group. Carnoustie-based Brunton Design submitted plans earlier this month to Dundee City Council on behalf of Wes
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An undulating path covered in a layer of fake snow for sledding will curve around the roof garden of a Beijing shopping centre under new plans unveiled by American architect Andrew Bromberg. Deezen reports that Hong Kong-based Bromberg of architectural firm Aedas, designed the Phase 3C building for
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A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US, Dezeen has reported. Called Tribute: The Monument of Giant, the visionary scheme imagines buildings constructed within the empty trunks of giant sequ
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2017 is proving to be a very busy year already for Fife Architects and since January it has begun a number of new renovations which are currently in the initial design stage. Included here are three brief examples to showcase some of the different projects that it has been working on.
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An unpaved section of a Montreal street has become the subject of ridicule online, stirring controversy over how the city handles construction projects, CBC News has reported. Demix Construction has been repaving part of René-Lévesque Boulevard in time for the Formula E, an electric-car race that
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The theft of a tiny house that later resurfaced over 750 miles away has baffled police officers in Australia. Julie Bray built the prototype home, worth around £12,000, for exhibition to investors, but it disappeared from her business premises on Sunday.
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The owner of a construction business is among the candidates seeking to win investment from Lord Sugar in the next series of The Apprentice. The 13th series of the show starts on BBC1 next week with 33-year-old Michaela Wain, director and co-owner of Bolton-based Optimise Build Ltd, among the contes
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Danish architecture firm EFFEKT has designed a new attraction which will allow people to walk above the tress and experience the stunning nature of the forest from another perspective. The Treetop Experience is a 600 meter seamless continuous ramp connected to a 45 meter tall spiralling observation
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Possible evidence of a medieval Norse parliament meeting place may have been found at an archaeological site in the Highlands, the BBC has reported. A geophysical survey of Thing's Va Broch near Thurso has found "faint features" that may relate to activity associated with the meetings.
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Work at a Dublin construction site was temporarily brought to a halt this week after a hitchhiking scorpion scuttled out of a batch of building supplies. The alarm was raised when the unexpected visitor crawled out of a delivery of kitchen sinks – believed to have arrived at the Baggot Street site
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Cladding used on a set of tower blocks in Glasgow will be inspected as the local authority continues its progress to identify and test buildings believed to contain aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding. Last week it was revealed residents in two of the blocks at the Glasgow Harbour developmen
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A Chinese city has built a museum that looks like a crab. The three-storey museum, designed to resemble the famous Chinese mitten crab, will introduce the crustacean's living habitat and celebrate the locals' tradition of eating the shellfish.
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Residents of a street called “Bell End” have launched a petition to change the name because of its impact on house prices. But thousands of people have backed a rival petition seeking to protect the name, claiming that it has historical and sentimental value.
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A couple who purchased a $3.2 million mansion are suing the brokers for failing to disclose that it featured in a popular horror TV show — plus, they add, it is actually haunted. In 2015, Dr Ernst von Schwarz and Angela Oakenfold became the inadvertent owners of the Rosenheim Mansion at 1120 Westc
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