All Building articles in 17 April 2009 – Page 4
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Features
Bluffer's guide to Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2009
What you need to know to survive this year's event
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Cityscape warm-up: Ken Shuttleworth
The founder of architect Make tells Building why he’ll be in Abu Dhabi next week and what he’s got planned
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News
Docklands Light Railway to get £18.2m upgrade
Capacity of Beckton route of London train to rise 50% in time for 2012 Olympics
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£50m Liverpool building submitted for planning permission
18-storey tower, designed by Broadway Malyan, will attempt to win tenants from relocation of government offices
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2012 media centre kicks off one month early
Structure is last of the main five Olympic venues to get started
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Partnerships for Schools exceeds targets
Delivery agency has built 54 schools and says it plans to open more than 200 a year by 2011
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East London housing scheme set to start
Former hospital site will include 950 homes, of which 50% will be affordable
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Homes with negative equity hits 900,000
Council of Mortgage Lenders says negative equity is contributing to fall in property sales
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Tolent’s profit slumps 80%
Developer was hit by property writedowns and loss on a Sheffield residential scheme
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Construction boss kidnaps bank manager
A debt-ridden building entrepreneur in Spain takes extreme measures to get loan
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Say your prayers
Architect Glyn Parkes points out that the gutter on this church in Hungary has already been removed so there is nothing to break these non-harnessed construction workers’ fall. Bet the view’s good, though
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Travellers site
Architect Fereday Pollard has produced a number of concept designs for a “model” inner-city site for the travelling community
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Sidcup winners
The Cathedral Group has won a planning appeal to build a mixed-use development in Sidcup, Kent
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Comment
Short and tweet
Dispatches from the Twitter social networking site:Bryant Priest Newman, Birmingham-based architect
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Solihull redevelopment
Solihull council has given the green light to the first phase of the redevelopment of The Green, a 39-acre business park in the town, designed by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson
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Features
Sheer quality
This is the 15th anniversary of the Building Awards and never have they been so hard won.
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Comment
Pull together
The current market conditions are forcing clients and their supply chains to review costs and tender processes. However, as an industry we must resist any return to adversarial, lowest price procurement processes
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Wetroom products
ACO Building Drainage has added a range of products to its wetroom drainage portfolio
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Comment
Sending out an SOS
When Alistair Darling delivered his pre-Budget report in November, most firms were hoping that it would launch a lifeboat they could clamber aboard to wait out the worst of the recession
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Comment
The special ones
We know designers are a great bunch because they keep telling us so. In the first of seven articles about the seven deadly sins of architecture