All Building articles in 11 June 2010 – Page 4
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LandSecs and CWG in Walkie-Talkie talks
Land Securities is in exclusive negotiations with Canary Wharf Group to build the Rafael Vinõly-designed Walkie-Talkie tower for £350m, it has emerged
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Willmott Dixon goes hybrid to offset public sector cuts
Chief executive prepares for tougher times with plans to increase private development work
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World (table football) Cup: Passion play
What is it about the World Cup? We staged our own finals in east London’s Bar Kick and it began to feel like the real thing. Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken tell the story of plucky underdogs and amazing new talents
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Now every penny counts
The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures
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Costain merges two divisions
Costain is to merge its environment and communities divisions to focus on new business in highways, rail, airports, water and waste treatment
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Wernick transforms company into trust for employees
Structural engineer Jane Wernick has turned her eponymous company into a John Lewis-style trust run for the benefit of the employees
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Join the club
Further to last week’s Building Forum article from a specialist subcontractor who’s having trouble getting paid, can I suggest there’s a simple answer: join the Association of Interior Specialists, the federation for your sector
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Hansom: Sporting chances
The industry is getting in shape, with directors tackling the high jump, architects cycling through time, Boris jogging and islanders getting ready for a long swim. And some soccer tournament, apparently
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CIC names Gordon Masterton as new chair
Environment vice-president at engineer Jacobs takes over from Keith Clarke
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Classical building
Construction is gathering pace on Terry Pawson Architects’ Linz Musiktheater in Austria
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Government to pull funding from zero-carbon housing body
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, has signalled his intention to halt government funding for an independent body that was set up to help deliver zero-carbon housing
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BCO calls for ‘Facebook offices’
The incoming president of the British Council for Offices has warned the industry not to “navel gaze” during tough times and focus on innovative office design and construction
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A money back guarantee
If the coalition decided to scrap a lot of the old regime’s PFI contracts, what chance do all the preferred bidders stand of having their bid costs reimbursed?
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Architects – meet the real world
Many architects have evolved into service providers for giant PFI contractor consortiums. Which means that, if they lose their jobs, they can’t fend for themselves
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Architects for change
I found Building’s reporting of Paul Morrell’s comment piece (28 May, page 28) rather misleading
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Features
Headingley pavilion: Boycott, Illingworth, Close – and Alsop
Alsop Sparch is about to join the great names that adorn the sacred home of Yorkshire cricket. But it took more than a sports club to construct the Headingley Carnegie stadium’s new pavilion, as Ike Ijeh found out
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Cover pricing 'as common now as it was two years ago'
But OFT survey finds that two-thirds of firms now have systems in place to detect malpractice
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Unite official accuses union of collusion in blacklist
File seen by Building points to union complicity in providing information used to identify ’troublemakers’
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Lend Lease bans Bovis from £40bn nuclear sector
Contractor backs out of EDF deal at last minute as Australian parent decides to shun ’unethical’ work