All Building articles in 17 July 2009 – Page 5
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Features
They want cashback too: working with supermarkets
Supermarkets have long been Britain’s toughest clients. Well now they’re getting even tougher. Sarah Richardson found out how – and what construction firms are doing to meet their demands
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News
Healey pledges new cash and ideas to kickstart housing
New minister lines up £1.7bn for PFI homes and promises thoroughgoing rethink of housebuilders’ business model
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Comment
Building buys a pint … for Collado Collins
At the end of the evening there are only two of us standing. In several inches of sand in the boisterous balloon-filled basement of a Soho bar. “I think it’s time to go,” says Jonathan wisely
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News
Reinventing the building society
Local authorities need cash to build houses; savers need somewhere to invest their cash. So, asks Kathleen Dunmore, why not get the two together?
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News
Currie & Brown buys surveyor
Currie & Brown has bought Jersey-based building surveyor Hill Associates for an undisclosed sum
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Comment
Brace! Brace!
I was sad to read the views of Steven Morgan at BAA. I suspect there will be a lot of claims specialists and lawyers rubbing their hands at his belief in “the bracing effects of competition”
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Features
Bovis’ Graham Hiley on rescuing the Manchester joint hospitals project
How project director Hiley climbed out of the £400m hole Bovis had got itself into on the hideously complicated joint hospitals scheme
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News
‘Boring’ sector brings in the cash for Kier in June
Business barometer Social housing shores up balance sheets as the commercial sector struggles
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News
Government’s bid to boost mortgages ‘is not working’
Committee of MPs hits out at policy ‘failure’ on flagship housing market revival scheme
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News
Tube Lines considers bid for Metronet lines
Tube Lines is considering bidding to take on the upgrade and maintenance of one or more lines previously under the control of the failed Metronet consortium
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Features
The tracker: Better, but not good
The market is still contracting, but it’s at a steadily decreasing rate – and non-residential tender enquiries are actually growing. Experian Business Strategies fills in the details
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News
Liverpool crane’s base ‘not suitable’
Questions are being asked over the suitability of the base of the tower crane that collapsed onto a block of flats in Liverpool last Monday
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News
Redrow and Barratt hopeful
Redrow and Barratt both pointed to signs of stabilisation in the housing market at trading updates last week
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Comment
Secrets and lies: Aukett Fitzroy Robinson's fraudulent misrepresentation
A court has found architect Aukett Fitzroy Robinson guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation for failing to inform its client that a team member had quit
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Features
Icon do that: architects redesign London landmarks
Quinlan Terry’s sketch of Chelsea Barracks proved that even a doodle can make waves. It inspired us to ask four architects to imagine how some traditional London landmarks might look with a twist
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Comment
Angry old men
The Prince of Wales loses another friend, the Shard team unwind to a bunch of gnarled old punks and a senior architect has reason to feel aggrieved/flattered after a judge draws an unlikely comparison
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Features
Crazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower
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News
Mace to project manage ailing Viñoly arts centre
Consultant wins contract on troubled Rafael Viñoly-designed Colchester visual arts centre project
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Comment
Be careful what you wish for: Supplemental agreements
The dire economy is prompting many parties to alter their contracts with supplemental agreements. But if you’re not careful, they may be worse than nothing