All Building articles in 10 July 2009 – Page 5
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NewsHCA looks to expand contractor partnership plan
Agency writes to English councils seeking land and plans to tender for contractors within a fortnight
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Comment
Find the combination
Looking behind the headlines (26 June, page 26), I wonder if BAA is really looking to “ditch” frameworks or to question how and where they are used and to what effect?
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FeaturesTurner & Townsend's unseasonal success: Vince Clancy interview
There aren’t many companies that are hiring senior staff, opening offices and preparing themselves for the stock market. But then there aren’t many chief executives like Turner & Townsend’s all-conquering Vince Clancy
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Mott files stinging rebuke to Multiplex Wembley claim
Legal battle over stadium continues as engineer calls contractor’s £253m case ‘embarrassing’
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Features
Citywatch: A tough sell
Those who believe the worst is behind us this week cited the London Residential Opportunities fund launched by former Redrow boss Paul Pedley
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CommentChelsea changed everything
The fall of Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks scheme was not so much the cause of an enjoyable public row as the effect of a fundamental change in the way we do design
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NewsNow even newer: Harlow town centre
Plans for a 1.3 million ft2 addition to Harlow town centre in Essex have been unveiled by Harlow council and developers, Stockland
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NewsIndustry divided over Camberwell fire
Fire experts have cautioned against blaming the building design for the spread of a fire that killed six people at a block of flats in Camberwell, south London
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
Guy Austin revels in Renault’s stunning underground Oxfordshire laboratory but a Hampshire new town is about as much fun as having your teeth drilled without anaesthetic
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Consultation on worker blacklisting
Business secretary Peter Mandelson has launched a consultation to outlaw the blacklisting of workers for trade union activity
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NewsEnglish Heritage attacks Part L proposals
Heritage body set to oppose plans to bring historic buildings up to modern energy efficiency standards when refurbished
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NewsHigh velocity art: Festival of Speed, West Sussex
This sculpture was on show last weekend at the Festival of Speed in Goodwood, West Sussex
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CommentWhat would Aristotle do?
What a relief to read Steven Morgan’s views on procurement at BAA (26 June, page 26).
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Architects show confidence in rising workload
Architects’ confidence in the private housing and commercial sectors is beginning to return, according to a RIBA survey
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NewsAnother crane collapses
A four-storey block of flats in Liverpool city centre had to be evacuated on Monday, after a tower crane fell onto it
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FeaturesAmanda Levete's Dublin bridge
Amanda Levete’s first project since she left Future Systems, the firm she ran with her late husband Jan Kaplicky, is a sculptural bridge in Dublin that lays the way for a new direction in her career
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Deaths inquiry calls for labour agency curbs
Gangmaster regulations brought in after the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe Bay five years ago could be extended to the construction industry
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Firms fear accounting rule change
Proposed changes to accounting rules may punish contractors that sign up to large projects
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Eleven win £500m regional framework
Eleven contractors have won a place on a massive regional framework scheduled to provide up to £500m of work in the next four years