All Building articles in 13 March 2015 – Page 3
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GB Building board's 'devastation' over adminstration
Directors frustrated that short-term cash issues caused firm’s collapse
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Hansom: Virtual realities
Exploring alternative planes of existence, there’s Alastair Campbell at Ecobuild, Mipim by bike, bat warnings, and building structures in a 3D procedurally generated world. More mundanely, there’s stamps and Lego
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Construction output falls 2.6% in January
New ONS figures show drop in output continued into 2015
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Chipperfield chosen for New York Met expansion project
Architect will design contemporary art wing for New York museum
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Peel outline new Liverpool Waters developments
New hotel, 140 apartments and 100,000ft² office space for Liverpool Waters
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Raft of new degree apprenticeships announced
Chartered surverying, nuclear and power engineering among the new pathways
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Scotland’s Muirfield falls into administration
Administrators say “significant number of redundancies likely at 280-strong firm
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Comment
Nobody wins
The rise of the smaller political parties could mean the next government finds it harder to take a pro-development stance on housebuilding
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Features
Sketch of the week: Woburn Coffee House
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Frank Porthouse, director at Project Design Studio
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Comment
CDM regs: Re-writing health and safety
Revised CDM regulations that come into force in April look to improve those published in 2007. Familiarise yourself with the new rules, but remember they could still change
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Features
Image of the week: The breakthrough
The Crossrail boring machine breaks into the eastern end of Liverpool Street station
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Pinnacle replacement to come in under £575m original scheme
Brookfield Multiplex set to build tower at 22 Bishopsgate under a fixed-price contract
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Features
Interview: Peter Rogers
Despite a career spent working on London’s skyline, Peter Rogers has never lost his hunger for a challenge. Which is just as well, as he’s taking on the Pinnacle, possibly the capital’s most troubled project
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Comment
Just do what you enjoy
An Aecom apprentice blogs on her week spent work-shadowing Emea chief executive Steve Morriss
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Housing associations to re-procure £64m maintenance framework
Procurement For All to begin procurement process in April, with work to start next February
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Laing O'Rourke to start work on £270m Dumfries hospital
NHS and High Wood Health consortium reach financial close on major new facility
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UKIP: The vocal minority
Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party’s anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level
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Wates: UKCG and NSCC could merge in June
UKCG chairman claims ‘commitment is absolutely there from both sides to make this work’