All Building articles in 04 September 2009 – Page 4
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UK workers turn to Iraq for jobs
White-collar construction staff turn in desperation to Iraq and Afghanistan, reveals recruitment agency
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Tories to stick with pathfinder initiative
The Tories have said they would continue to support regeneration schemes, including the housing market renewal pathfinder initiative, should they win the next election
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Jenga on ice
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat has announced plans for a cultural centre that it claims will be the world’s tallest wooden building
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Swindon head leaves
Peter James, the chief executive of Swindon’s urban regeneration company, is stepping down after four years in the post
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Comment
It happened in Hertfordshire
Back in the fifties, one council changed the way everybody built schools. And the buildings it created can now be born again as models of sustainability
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Comment
Hansom super-size this
There’s nothing wrong with excess, whether taking a prodigious number of lunches or hundreds of trips abroad or lining your wall with mobile phones – but working at the weekend? That’s just too much
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Goldschmied steps in to sponsor struggling Stirling prize
The Stirling prize has been rescued by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, which is stumping up the £20,000 prize money after the RIBA struggled to find a sponsor for the prize
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Features
Let the little ones join in: primary schools funding
It’s come to our attention that the big boys have been taking over the playground and depriving the smaller children of their dinner money. Mr Kennett will now explain how primary schools are going to change this
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Comment
Trouble in the transfer market: TUPE regulations and frameworks
Under TUPE regulations, staff are transferred from contractor to contractor depending on who is doing the work. But how does that function with frameworks?
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Fighting solves nothing
Much has been said and written recently on the expressed intention of some employers, in both the public and private sectors, to abandon framework agreements in favour of lowest price
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Eternal Seoul: Foster + Partners's South Korea masterplan
Architect wins competition to design sustainable masterplan in South Korea
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Rural housing drought
One rural primary school is closing every month as a result of housing shortages in the countryside, according to research commissioned by the National Housing Federation.
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Comment
‘Valid’ doesn’t mean ‘true’: withholding payment
A party that doesn’t want to pay another needs to issue a withholding notice with a reason why it’s not paying – but does this reason need to be reasonable?
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Mace's QS division enjoys Sense of progress
SME profile Five years after quitting G&T, Chris Goldthorpe can reflect on a gamble well taken
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Kennedy Twaddle wins planning for New Cross hotel
Architect Kennedy Twaddle has been granted planning permission for this 60-bedroom hotel next to Goldsmiths college In New Cross, south-east London
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UK construction continues to decline – but at a slower rate
The rate of decline within the UK construction industry was the slowest for 18 months last month, figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply revealed
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Canary contrary
Boris Johnson, mayor of London, has used his powers to determine a planning application in the capital for the first time
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Cadaver Court
Work has started on site for a research facility at Oxford university’s school of pathology