All Building articles in 12 June 2009 – Page 4
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NewsWYG wins £4.17m contract in Serbia
Project aims to ensure EU gets full value for funds directed at regional development
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FeaturesWorking for the Colonel: opportunities in Libya
Forty years of isolation has left Libya desperate for reconstruction and rolling in money. So it’s spending billions on national renewal, and if you’re clever you’ll help it out. Oh, it helps if you like coffee
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FeaturesCould it be magic? Take That's stage set
Well, with its giant mechanical elephant, big top and 10m-high puppet ringmaster, Take That’s new show is certainly surreal. But who designs and builds this sort of stuff? Thomas Lane went behind the scenes at the fastest-selling show in UK pop history
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NewsWeird science: Science Museum, London
The Science Museum in London has unveiled images of a proposed £150m revamp designed by Wilkinson Eyre
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Comment
Maybe a little lower
I’m not convinced that energy efficiency is a reason for advocating high rise
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News
Tough match for Linklaters
Law firm Linklaters has been drawn into the legal row between the All England Lawn Tennis Ground and Building Design Partnership over the Wimbledon media centre
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CommentHaving it large
This week resembles nothing so much as a big night out, starting with a booze-up in the new bar, a comical confusion about who’s doing what, a late Currie – and of course the massive bill at the end
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Comment
Inflammatory words
The Practitioners Forum and the Business and Community Safety Forum’s recent report to the minister makes some valid points on the fire risks of timber-framed buildings during construction, and they urge the government to review the Building Regulations
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NewsRight at home
Now that the Conservative party is ambling to victory at the next election victory, it has much more freedom to develop housing policy. Jon Neale looks at what it’s likely to be
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Comment
Hear, hear
I read your article on school acoustics with much interest. As a maker of acoustic ceiling and wall absorbers, we have been working with our customers for some time now to push acoustics higher up the agenda for new schools and we warmly welcome the end-user’s contribution
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SEC Group highlights Pierse pitfall
The chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group is petitioning the new construction minister to amend the Construction Bill, after Pierse Contracting, the £28m-turnover subsidiary of Pierse Group, went into administration on 1 June
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NewsGreen Shoots
Each week Building will ask an expert to analyse the latest evidence of green shoots, and see if it stands up to scrutiny. This week we have Simon Rawlinson, partner in Davis Langdon, on housing
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Comment
The long game
The construction industry is undoubtedly one of the hardest-hit sectors in this current recession so it is no surprise that consolidation and survival have become watchwords. Job cuts are the answer for some but wholesale cutbacks can prove dangerous in the long term
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Features
The tracker: Still falling...
After the rate of decline slowed in March, activity accelerated again (slightly) in April. Goods news is thin on the ground, but things might just pick up in June and July, says Experian Business Strategies
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Comment
Open debate
To state that open-plan schools have not been studied, as suggested in your article “Can you hear me at the back?” (15 May, page 40), is somewhat wide of the mark
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NewsSummer of strikes threatens Olympics and Crossrail
140 shop stewards vote unanimously to ballot members on industrial action to improve workers’ rights
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NewsReshuffle delays construction death report
The publication of an inquiry into construction deaths is to be delayed as a result of the Cabinet reshuffle