All Building articles in 03 February 2012
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News
ECA dinner picketed by angry sparks
Protests come despite controversial BESNA agreement being led by ECA’s rival trade body the HVCA
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Land Securities teams with pension fund for Victoria scheme
Mixed-use scheme on Victoria circle site worth £1bn
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Features
RCA Architecture Show 2012
Students explore sound in the city, a factory that turns rags to riches and a proposal to turn the Design Museum into a public pool as part of the architecture students’ interim show
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News
Planning reform 'won't help economy'
Report finds there could be little or no economic boost for two years or more as a result of the government’s planning reforms
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Innocent contractor dragged into Museum of Liverpool court battle
High Court defence wrongly points finger at Dorchester-based firm which has never worked “north of Southampton”
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Vinci bags £100m Kings Cross office job
Contractor to do pre-construction design work on four-storey office block
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CPA website falls victim to Chinese hack
‘We’re not exactly the Pentagon’ says Construction Products Association boss
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Construction output falls 0.5% at the end of 2011
Housing worst hit by continued turmoil in the industry
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£150m Shepherds Bush market scheme gets nod
Orion Land & Leisure and Development Securities scheme granted outline planning permission
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Barker sets out long-term reform to FIT scheme
Government says new lower FIT rate will be pegged to the falling cost of solar PV
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Tate St Ives architect chosen
Jamie Fobert Architects has won the competition to design a new extension of the Tate gallery’s outpost in St Ives, Cornwall
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CH2M Hill wins £5bn Qatar World Cup
UK firms Mace, Arup and T&T thought to be among those to lose out
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Design Council slams Liverpool Waters plan
Design review criticises lack of principles and coherence in masterplan
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Margaret Ford to leave legacy company
Chair of Olympic regeneration body to step down after the Games
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Osborne's infrastructure push 'will fail' surveyors predict
RICS survey casts doubt on plan to boost institutional investment in infrastructure
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Sweett Group wins Shard fit-out job
Consultant will oversee administration, planning and quality monitoring of luxury hotel fit-out at top of tower
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Liverpool council opts for mayor
Move paves way for £130m ‘city deal’ that will create first Mayoral Development Corporation outside London
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Construction firms falling short on apprentices
Nearly three quarters of construction firms do not employ an apprentice and do not plan to do so in the next 18 months, survey finds
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Comment
Challenging the methodology of an adjudicator
The judge took a dim view of this adjudicator adopting a different methodology to calculate a claim to that used by the parties involved, and his decision was not enforced