All Building articles in 05 October 2012 – Page 6
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CommentOnce more unto the breach
When does a delay to a project become sufficiently serious to incur a repudiatory breach, allowing the contract to be terminated?
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FeaturesBIM: Just a glitch?
Specialist contractors are challenging the cost of BIM and the way it is being used. Iain Withers reports
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FeaturesEducation: Bent into shape
BDP’s priority at Bents Green school in Sheffield was to create a safe and supportive environment for autistic pupils. But it has also managed to preserve the site’s 18th-century coach house. Ike Ijeh reports on a tricky balancing act
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Automatic doors for wheelchairs
Geze creates an automatic entrance for young people with a range of physical disabilities
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NewsAccess flooring
Kingspan installs access flooring in five new buildings as part of a £29m Wandsworth renewal scheme
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Modular academy
Foremans Relocatable Building Systems hands over a sixth-form centre in Reading
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CommentHousing: Death of section 106?
The government’s housing and growth initiative may have hammered another nail in the coffin of the traditional means of paying for affordable housing
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NewsBrookfield sues the Pinnacle for £16m
Exclusive: Contractor launches High Court claim to recover unpaid fees for work on stalled £1bn Pinnacle tower
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NewsDitching on-site renewables would save millions, says report
BCO research suggests that overall costs of on-site reneables far outweigh financial benefits
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NewsGleeds wins extended role on £120m Peabody scheme
Consultant will act as development manager and employer’s agent on 527-home south London scheme
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CommentGarden Cities: Learning from the regions
Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week’s Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire
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FeaturesPost-Olympics: London's rolling
The Olympics may be over but the capital still has plenty of exciting projects to fill the void. Here are the main development sectors and key projects
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NewsRathfinny winery lays sustainable roots
New winery in East Sussex to be biggest and most environmentally friendly in England
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NewsWSP hires ex-Laing O'Rourke director as infrastructure chief
Duncan Symonds joins engineer, which also loses MD of environment and energy division as part of restructure
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NewsTwo firms vie for £1.1bn Sellafield nuclear job
Exclusive: Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall battle for contract to deliver series of major infrastructure works
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NewsFive contractors in race for Crossrail's western stations
Kier, Costain and Balfour Beatty among those invited to bid for station works
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CommentWonders & blunders with Gareth Moores
Lytag’s Gareth Moores thinks Salisbury’s Bourne Hill Offices are a perfect blend of old and new, but Oregon’s Portland Building is a lumbering pseudo-historical eyesore