All Building articles in 11 September 2009 – Page 5
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News
Fresh eyes
Building’s Phase One networkers got a bird’s eye view of the new Spinningfields district and talks from the project team in Manchester last Thursday
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Euston for high-speed terminal
Euston has emerged as the most likely London station for any north–south high-speed terminal, according to sources close to High Speed Two, the firm set up to examine the future of a link.
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Comment
Not the wreckers: Sticking up for value engineering
Gus Alexander recently made a bitter complaint about value engineers spoiling his design. Well, fair enough, but that’s not what value engineering is for
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Features
The tracker: Emerging markets
Most indicators are finally recovering, with residential activity at 50, tender enquiries at an impressive 69 and all regions showing signs of improvement
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Living with eco-towns: The hard sell
The idea of eco-towns has never been exactly popular with neighbouring communities. So now that the four sites have been chosen, how is the government going to convince the locals to buy into its low-carbon dream?
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Final salary schemes face early retirement
As construction firms’ liabilities rise by £4bn, others may follow Costain in stopping all new benefits
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Reed fears for female designers
Ruth Reed has said she hopes her position as the first female president of the RIBA will help keep women in the profession during the recession
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Power station strikes staved off by engineering pay deal
Unions say dispute ‘can now be settled’, but employers warn pay rises in downturn may lead to job cuts
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The Cricklewood renaissance
Developers behind the £4.5bn Brent Cross and Cricklewood regeneration scheme have agreed to stump up £1bn in community benefits under a planning agreement with the council
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New wave of council homes
The government has approved funding of £127m for 47 councils to build 2,000 social homes on 205 sites across the country.
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Comment
Getting there: Revision to JCT contracts
The latest revision to the JCT contracts is a step in the right direction, but doesn’t go far enough to enforce the OGC’s Achieving Excellence in Construction aims
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Conservative housing policy: The guessing game:
The Tories’ latest statements about greenfield development have been contradictory. So until they make up their minds, it’s up to local authorities to take a more definite view
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Citywatch: Still summer in the city
Construction firms have had a good summer in the City, if not in the real economy
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Raffle draw: Raffle City, China by SPARCH
SPARCH, the Asian arm of Archial Group, has unveiled these designs for the 150,000m2 Raffles City mixed-used development in Ningbo, China
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Pidgley takes the chair
Berkeley shareholders approved the appointment of former chief executive, Tony Pidgley, as chair on 9 September
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Fully evolved: Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum
The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum will next week open to the public – in what it claims is its most significant development since it moved to South Kensington in 1881
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Finch: Cabe has less influence than TV show
The incoming chairman of Cabe has admitted the TV programme Grand Designs has had a greater impact on the public’s perception of design than the organisation he is soon to head
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Comment
Building buys a pint … for Metropolitan workshop
It’s still just about August and Building is doing the honours in a pub in Architects’ Gulch (aka Clerkenwell) with Metropolitan Workshop
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First on the Forth: Building Centre exhibition
This image of the construction of the Forth rail bridge in the 1880s is on display at the Building Centre in London as part of an exhibition celebrating 19th-century engineer Benjamin Baker