All Building articles in 09 January 2009 – Page 4
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Arup sets up Heathrow hub development firm
Consultant establishes new firm to work on proposed £4.5bn Heathrow transport hub station
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View from my office: Linda Palau
The director at McBains Cooper Mexico is inspired by the city’s new architectural style
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Work on Olympic Village progresses without developer
Current construction work shown in pictures is being funded by £95m from the Olympic contingency fund
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Former Skanska UK boss joins ODA board
David Fison joins Olympic body, as former Amec chief executive Sir Peter Mason steps down
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Welsh builder named as UK’s worst penny-pincher
Tightest Briton cleans house with tiny toy dustpan and uses each teabag three times
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Radon in homes 'responsible for 1,000 deaths a year'
Oxford University researchers say current building guidelines fail to prevent seepage of natural carcogenic gas
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Bovis Homes job cuts rise to 60% of workforce
New round of job cuts announced to counter fall in sales and sliding house prices
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Tower Hamlets council fined £15,000 after worker badly burned
HSE slams council and lighting contractor for ‘dreadful’ safety practice on lamppost installation
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Galliford Try JV wins £60m Scottish water contract
JV with Black & Veatch is named as preferred contractor on storm overflow transfer scheme
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Royal Haskoning JV to design Qatar port
Consultant teams up with Worley Parsons Qatar for 20km2 New Doha Port scheme
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Comment
Which way to tender?
Two-stage tendering was invented for situations in which the client had to start building as a matter of urgency, yet retain an element of competition between contractors
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Right on track
Building Design Partnership was commissioned to undertake the masterplan for Birmingham City University on a wonderful site that will be the centrepiece of the Eastside regeneration
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Tied into Notts
Capita Architecture has been appointed to design the £13.1m rebuild of a Nottingham primary school as part of the city’s £90m Building Schools for the Future programme
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News to me
Ross Holleron states (12 December, page 59) that “Hanham Hall … will produce excess heat from its combined heat and power system in summer months. Some of this will supply the hall and a communal glass house, but the rest will have to be dumped.”
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The year of the lawyer: Predictions
Next year, workloads will shrink and firms will be more aggressive, so 2009 is likely to be a boom time for one group of professionals at least …
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Lancsville in the pink
Turnover at London firm Lancsville Construction nearly doubled in the year to 31 January 2008 from £68.6m to £131m
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Urban regeneration industry pays tribute to Jon Ladd
Tributes have poured in for Jon Ladd, the former chief executive of the British Urban Regeneration Association, who passed away last weekend after a short illness