All Building articles in 16 October 2009 – Page 5
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CommentHansom: Lese majeste
Just as Hyde Park’s Rue du Roi was renamed Rotten Row, and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe became Dai Bananas, so the mocking laughter of the public continues to haunt the great and the good …
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NewsGreen roof systems
Building membranes specialist Icopal has launched the EasyGreen modular roofing system, which the company claims will improve stormwater management and easy inspection of underlying roof waterproofing membranes
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FeaturesSustainability: The future of offices
We’re going to have to make some important changes in the way we use offices in the future. Here Cyril Sweett director Hugh Mulcahey looks at what the options are – and which is better
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CommentFee rates: What's a lawyer worth?
Lawyers are discounting fees and moving away from hourly rates, but limits on them taking a share of sums recovered in a dispute may disappear
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Expose the OFT
It is not surprising, what with the draconian powers of the Office of Fair Trading and the possibility of future appeals, that few bosses are prepared to put their heads above the parapet and comment on the spate of fines imposed upon our industry
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FeaturesThames Gateway Forum: Eastern promise
Billions of pounds worth of projects in the east of the Thames Gateway are staying on track despite the shortage of private funding. Here, one of the key players in the area explains how
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RBS' property director departs
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s group director of property has left the company for undisclosed reasons, as the bank mulls a wide-ranging review of its property strategy
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NewsHCA funding cut puts paid to Greenwich school plans
Hopes that agency would fund removal of gasometer abandoned after £70m cut to its budget
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NewsCoventry street
Developer Friargate Coventry has submitted an outline planning application to Coventry council for a £1.5bn mixed-use redevelopment of a 15ha site opposite the city’s train station
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NewsCombined heat pump
Atmos Heating Systems’ Combinair hot water boiler combines a conventional boiler with an air source heat pump and heat recovery in a single unit, and is now covered by a new section in SAP Appendix Q. This means its energy saving potential can be taken into account when carrying out ...
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NewsClean coal power hit by decision to postpone plants
Delays feared for new wave of 'clean' coal-fired power stations as two large schemes held up
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NewsOlympic park legacy company still to clarify remit
New chief executive admits large parts of the body's budget and remit are still being negotiated
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NewsCitywatch: Pessimism postponed
Bellway boss John Watson is a glass-half-empty kind of guy and was in “muted recovery” mode at the housebuilder’s full-year results this week
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NewsBut what does it mean?: Stonehenge visitor centre
Denton Corker Marshall’s designs for the proposed visitor centre at Stonehenge were revealed in a planning application to Wiltshire council
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Keller buys Singaporean firm
Keller Group, the gound engineering specialist, has bought Singaporean foundation contractor Resource Holdings for £30.6m
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FeaturesDefence Technical College: building a Welsh town from scratch
A £700m military college the size of a small town, to be built in the next four years. Not so clever now, are we? Capita, you take the training facilities, Brownrigg the living quarters. HLM, you’re with me. Now ’op to it!
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Complete building envelopes
An integrated external building envelope, delivered by ICF-Tech walls, Sheerframe windows and Masterdor doorsets, is being used on 12 Code for Sustainable Homes level five dwellings for Woking Borough Homes
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Boris' London wheeze
The mayor of London has unveiled his draft plan for the city, as well as his economic development and transport strategies
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CommentWonders & blunders with Tony Travers
Academic and pundit Tony Travers heaps praise on a pier that lends grace to the Naples of the north, and pours scorn on a pathologically misanthropic medical college
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NewsBlack hole, part I
Ramboll was in charge of engineering design for the latest installation to grace the Turbine Hall in London’s Tate Modern