All Building articles in 04 September 2009 – Page 3
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Passivhaus diaries, part nine: Floor junctions
Our blogger overcomes the major challenge of making the junctions between the floor beams and walls airtight: here's how...
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Barratt Developments to issue £500m of new shares
Housebuilder plans cash call when full-year results are announced to reduce debt pile and fund land purchase
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Sexual harassment blocks women's path to top
Research shows female workers in construction struggle with long hours and a macho site culture
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Southampton BSF gets government go-ahead
Plan to rebuild or revamp 11 schools has received approval
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Tender of the day: £7.5m Essex flats, shops and offices
New build and demolition job starts in January 2010
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Berlin TV tower blasts into space: video
Spoof footage of one of Berlin's most iconic buildings proves an online hit
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'World's quietest building' opens
Bristol University claims its £11m Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information will surpass all other facilities for noise vibration levels
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Riding high
Somebody's horsing about up there – members of the public passing below could find this ladder most unlucky to walk under
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An uphill road to recovery
Construction activity may be falling more slowly now, but a number of issues are challenging the sector
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World's tallest resi tower deal awarded in Dubai
Lebanese contractor ACC will build Pentominium, the world's second-tallest building
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Jobless builders picket power plant over foreign labour use
Protestors block entrance to Newport site and urge workers across the country to strike
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Galliford Try wins £82.8m of hotel and housing contracts
Contractor to build three hotels in Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as well as student flats in London
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Funding rules changed to boost academies programme
Backers no longer need up-front funds of £2m but only skills to run a school
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Winning BSF work: How AOC Architecture moved up a class
This small firm of architects won a lucrative BSF contract in Southwark after proving itself on local primary school projects
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Bats in the belfry
Malbork castle in Poland was getting a facelift when Piers Michell spotted these workman perched precariously on the roof. Let’s hope their recklessness doesn’t come home to roost
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The root of the problem
I am writing in regard to your article “Giant fly swats could suck up motorway fumes” (27 August)
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Nobody’s perfect
Arguments against frameworks – here and elsewhere – seem to pick up on a few cases of bad procurement and apply these as true across all frameworks
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More mortgages
The number of mortgages approved by banks has risen to the highest figure for 17 months
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Unions in last-ditch talks over power station strikes
Employers to meet unions in eleventh-hour attempt to halt strikes on seven power stations across the UK
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Keeping on keeping on: Sir Michael Latham on training
Building facilities for the wider education sector is one thing, but construction also has to make sure it keeps its own training system up to scratch