All Building articles in 10 September 2010 – Page 3
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CommentHansom: Move over Sherlock
Building’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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FeaturesPracticalities of free schools: Schools for scavengers
According to the secretary of state for education, pretty much any old building can be turned into a classroom. But is that actually true? Thomas Lane did some research
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Housebuilding salaries: First, the good news
Housebuilding salaries have edged up over the past year, according to the PSD Group/Building survey. But the optimism that led to this modest rise has petered out, and fears for the future are growing among employees and clients
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Comment
Turning the heat on fire report
In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety
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CommentFreedom fighter: Toby Young interview
Author Toby Young is one of the first parents to try to found a free school - partly, it seems, in an effort to alienate as many architects as possible. Emily Wright asked him why
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CommentWe've failed economics
You will no doubt recall the talk from David Cameron during the election about the big society that was to replace big government
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NewsEaling's new production: Rydon housing estate
Developer Rydon has won outline planning permission for the £136m redevelopment of the Green Man Lane housing estate in Ealing, west London
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Building’s health and safety blunders.
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Private sector 'won't save industry from double dip'
Executives issue warning as Construction Products Association forecasts 0.8% contraction in 2011
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CommentMy digital life: Richard Nelson
Top picks from Watkins Gray Internationals business development director
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Fit-out optimism eases ISG’s pain over public sector cutbacks
ISG is recruiting in every division except construction, says its chief executive David Lawther, who predicts a 10% drop in regional work over the next six months
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Vinci's Crossrail success
Vinci has been shortlisted for two big tunnelling contracts on the £15.9bn Crossrail scheme
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Prompt payment: The other credit crunch
The government is making it a rule that all firms on public sector contracts be paid promptly, all the way down the supply chain. Which will come as a bit of a shock to some
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Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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FeaturesWhat does it cost to do up a school?
It’s become clear that most schools are going to have to carry on in the buildings they’ve got. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon looks at what it will cost to make them function better
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NewsNorwich councillors feared Connaught underbid
Norwich councillors feared Connaught had bid too low on a £17.5m housing maintenance contract and have warned that a replacement will be “far more expensive”
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The tracker: Coming in to land
The decline in industry activity is expected to ease in August and September and level out in October, according to latest figures from Experian Marketing Information Services
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat
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CommentWhy I'm convinced by free schools: Free-range children
Now the dead hand of central government has been prised from our throats, we can build schools in a way that is excitingly new - and strangely old-fashioned
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Winds of change
I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.