All Building articles in 06 August 2010 – Page 3
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NewsMorgan Sindall picked for £500m regeneration scheme
Bournemouth town centre PPP project will run over 20 years
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NewsBalfour Beatty fined £45k after machine crushes wall
Balfour Beatty and Multibuilt plead guilty to safety breaches after 44-tonne machine falls across busy road
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NewsMcLaren parks showroom in One Hyde Park
Supercars will be sold on the ground floor of the Rogers Stirk Harbour development
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Comment
The structure of water
I wholeheartedly support the report by the Centre for Public Policy for Regions, which argues that maintaining investment in Scotland’s infrastructure will be key to the country’s future economic success
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CommentWhat would you do with the regs?
The Building Regulations have already achieved a great deal, says Andrew Stunell (the man in charge of them) - but now he wants you to tell him how they could do even more
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CommentQuentin Shears: A night to remember
’On a river there is no escape. A boat party is where corporate hospitality meets factory farming’
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FeaturesInsulation retrofit: Sealing the house
So how do you get a leaky Edwardian building to be so airtight that it can be heated with a single towel rail? Robert Prewett, the architect behind the retrofit, takes us through the project’s first steps …
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Comment
Help the student
I was sorry to read of Carillion’s decision to cancel its student sponsorship scheme (16 July, page 14)
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CommentWe haven't lost them ... yet
Those who have entered the construction sector in the past few years could be forgiven for feeling they had made an error on the scale of marching on Russia just as the nights are drawing in
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CommentHansom headaches
This week, there’s a spot of mild concussion for a housebuilder’s chairman, some trouble with the clientele at a fashionable Highbury eatery, and Paul Morrell turns the volume up to 11
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NewsPotters Field homes: Field work
Southwark council and Berkeley Homes last week signed a partnership deal that will pave the way for the redevelopment of the controversial Potters Fields site
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FeaturesTerry Farrell's Regent's Place: Regent’s spark
Sir Terry Farrell’s Regent’s Place is the fruition of a vision that should kick-start the regeneration of one of London’s more grisly thoroughfares. Ike Ijeh reports
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Comment
Engineering less waste
That civil engineering is to examine its cost-saving potential across the UK under the chair of Terry Hill (“Civils cost inquiry could save schemes from axe,” 25 June, building.co.uk), is extremely positive news for the industry, for the economy and for the environment
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NewsMace warns of disruption as small firms go to the wall
Contractor posts soaring profit but deputy chief executive predicts supply chain woes ahead
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CommentThe land of the Dachdeckermeister
Germany’s technical and political approach to sustainable construction is much more advanced than the UK’s. So why don’t we steal a few ideas from them
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NewsMass culture
Concrete pouring began this week on Buro Happold and Snøhetta’s King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
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Mouchel shares tumble as consultant downplays profit
Shares in consultant Mouchel fell 5% on Tuesday morning after the firm said profit would be at the “lower end of expectations” when it reports annual results next month
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CommentGet lost, Plato: City Inn vs Shepherd Construction
The decision in City Inn vs Shepherd Construction is a victory for common sense over philosophical arguments about causation, says the lawyer who acted for Shepherd