All Building articles in 04 September 2009 – Page 6
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How to pick a winner: adjudication
Believe it or not, it can be tricky to decide whether you’ve won or lost a legal case. How come? Well here’s an illustration from the world of horse breeding
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Features
Schools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums
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Environmental activists scale Laing O’Rourke headquarters
Environmental activists descended on the headquarters of Laing O’Rourke on Wednesday in protest against the company’s bid to build Britain’s first coal-fired power plant in 30 years at Kingsnorth in Kent
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Getting the message across
I have sympathy with much of the sentiment in Tony Bingham’s article on cover pricing (28 August, page 42)
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Features
In my day: Industry greats reminisce about their schooldays
These tykes grew up to become pillars of the construction community – despite the overheated classrooms and endless dark corridors. So how would they redesign those grim sixties cellblocks they called ‘school’?
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Features
Mixed ability: assessing the BSF programme
How has the Building Schools for the Future programme been doing since we last assessed it one year ago?
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News
BBC picks designers for £25m Cardiff centre
FAT Architecture and Holder Mathias set to work with Igloo Regeneration on new production hub
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£184m repair contract
Paragon Community Housing Group is tendering for a 10-year housing repair and maintenance contract worth £184m
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130 contractors sign up to build housing on public land
More than 130 contractors have applied to build homes under the Homes and Communities Agency’s public land initiative
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Government set to rescue £1.5bn Essex port scheme
Dubai developer of Laing O’Rourke megaproject in talks to unblock London Gateway container port
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Latest construction appointments - 04 September 2009
George Currie has become partner and account leader at EC Harris
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RIBA announces first female president
Ruth Reed promises to encourage more women to work and remain in architecture
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Conference: 'Rethinking construction management'
130 papers on topics such as risk management, sustainability and project performance
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Poland: Architecture and Identity - Until January
In Autumn 2009 the RIBA Trust and Arup will host a major programme of exhibitions and talks focussed on Poland.
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Design exhibition: Close Up: Until 6 October 2009
The show presents 10 years of European design projects by the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates 2009 at the RCA.
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Cultivating faith: The feeding of the 59,000
RCA architecture student project examines how reinterpreting faith can help regenerate east London’s most deprived area