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Drum roll please.
After a lot of reading, a lot of learning, a bit of editing and a great deal of deliberation, the winner of the 2013 Chartered Institute of Building article competition is…
Mark Wilson for his article Insulation specification. Mark is principal at the Leeds-based practice, Design Office Architectural Ltd, and developer of BuildingDesignExpert.com. His article looks at the realities of insulation, how installations on site rarely achieve manufacturers’ published performance standards, and what sort of insulation is appropriate where.
The four runners-up are:
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Norman McIntosh from Roundhouse Architecture, for his detailed and practical guide to Conical roof slating.
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Charles Hippisley-Cox, Senior Lecturer in Building Conservation at Huddersfield University for his extraordinary article on Spiders and woodworm.
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Rachael Browne, MArch student at The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen for her beautifully written article about the history and regeneration of the Ballymun high-rise development. Ballymun mass housing and regeneration.
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Oliver Latimer, a 2013 graduate in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University for his article on the relative merits of a dynamic rather than static briefing process. Dynamic briefing.
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Legal digest
To celebrate our 700th article, we launched a new legal digest in collaboration with construction lawyer Najma Dunnett. She will be posting a new article every week, keeping you up to date with what’s going on in the legal world, the significant cases which have passed through the courts and what the implications are for practitioners.
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Hunt v Optima - If there is doubt over defects, consider withholding or qualifying certificates.
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TSG v South Anglia - Unlike USA, Canada & Australia there is no implied duty of good faith in English contract law.
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Zennstrom v Fagot - Bespoke features meant that the Defective Premises Act did not apply.
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