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Guidebooks to Scotland

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The introduction of the new Building Regulations 2004 should make securing building warrant approval more straightforward for even the most innovative designs. The opportunity to embrace concepts like 'robustness' as a route towards improved construction standards are not to be missed and must be seen as a good thing for homeowners, housing associations and others confronting problem areas like sound transmission between dwellings.

Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, State Safety NEC, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Construction law, Building law, Building codes

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ARB faces test case over validation

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De Montfort University is preparing a legal challenge after ARB decided to drop prescription for various courses. ARB claimed that the examination standards for the courses were insufficient, but ARB's visiting board recommended that ARB not proceed with its action.

Company legal issue, Cases, Schools of architecture, Architecture schools, De Montfort University

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CABE voices concern over PFI

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Issues are presented concerning the criticism which has been made of the Private Finance Initiative by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment over the proposed construction of school buildings.

Social aspects, Finance, Social policy, School buildings, United Kingdom. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, United Kingdom. Department of Education and Skills, United Kingdom. Private Finance Initiative

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