All Building articles in 01 April 2010 – Page 4
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NewsNew uniform
Contractor James and Taylor has won the job to clad Greater Manchester Police’s new £63m headquarters
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Comment
Missing Scotland
We are disappointed that the Scottish government’s call for a programme of accelerated capital spending of some £350m in the Budget has not been answered
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Comment
Nobody was left
Complaining about Tesco’s outsourcing of its suppliers, architects and surveyors reminds me of the poem by the German pastor Martin Niemöller, First They Came, in which he tells how he failed to speak up when the Nazis took away communists, then trade unionists, and then Jews because he was none ...
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CommentOther Jarvises
You may have noted in the press that the rail maintenance company Jarvis Plc has announced that it is going into administration. We wish to make it known that Jarvis Group Limited has no connections, business or otherwise, with the above named company
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NewsA new heart
This is the £20m main entrance pavilion at the redeveloped Mansfield Community Hospital in Nottinghamshire
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NewsGood as gold
John Lyall Architects designed this £17.5m educational and business support centre in Clerkenwell, central London
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NewsNightingale could be going for a song
Parent company Tribal wants to sell architect but doubts arise over how timing will affect price and whether anyone wants a health specialist
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FeaturesGene Kohn: Sorting out the mess at Kohn Pedersen Fox UK
When the London office of Kohn Pedersen Fox was split in two by the departure of Lee Polisano in September, founding partner Gene Kohn did what any self-respecting 79 year old would – he moved from New York to London to sort the whole mess out himself. He tells Emily ...
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FeaturesParadise for petrol heads: Foster + Partners’ McLaren factory
Foster + Partners has designed a road car factory for McLaren to park alongside its Formula One centre and, like that, it’s an impressive demonstration of streamlined high-tech architecture
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News
Government’s Donaghy response rejects gangmaster licences
The government has refused to introduce gangmaster licensing or create a dedicated construction minister in its response to the Rita Donaghy report on industry deaths this week
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CommentElectronic disclosure: Paying lawyers to look at porn
Because they get into a court case and have to disclose all kinds of electronic documents, no matter how embarrassing. And the cost of doing that can be spectacular. David Rogers and Debika Ray report on a growing problem
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Comment
Loyalty discarded
A bit short-sighted from Tesco. Most of its current business is in UK and it does place a strong emphasis on its loyalty cards so presumably it believes in loyalty – or am I a bit naive? I will go somewhere else for my shopping in future.George Smith
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NewsRow erupts over cost of new housing rules
Concerns raised about effect on output as HCA sets out raft of space and quality standards
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CommentA new form of pest control
If you’re peeved with an adjudicator’s decision and start playing silly games rather than comply with it, the likelihood is that you will get clobbered in the courts
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FeaturesSpecialist costs steel and concrete
The structures trades have been some of the hardest hit by the recession. Simon Rawlinson and Mark Lacey of Davis Langdon examine how specialist contractors and the supply chain have faced up to the challenges
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NewsMade in Taiwan: Pop music complex, Taiwan
Arup Associates together with the US architect Reiser + Umemoto have won a competition to design Asia’s first performance complex devoted to pop music
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Comment
Keep it clean
As someone who swears too much and is not proud of it, I agree with Chris Winks’ letter (5 March, page 27) about unnecessary swear words being printed in Building
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NewsChadderton transformed
Oldham council has appointed Willmott Dixon preferred bidder for its £71m academies programme