All Building articles in 17 September 2010 – Page 3
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CBI warns spending review must not target Crossrail
Business group urges Treasury to protect work on Crossrail and Tube upgrades in order to boost growth
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Zero-carbon homes scheme will test energy in action
Energy provider invests £3.5m to develop and monitor code level 6 homes
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Archial shares suspended
Shares in Archial have been suspended while the firm clarifies its financial position
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A door that saves lives
Kingston MA student designs a life saving door for countries in risk of earthquakes
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Bewley Homes in row over Surbiton scheme
Housebuilder goes to court to enforce adjudication payment of over £475,000
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The photography of Eric de Maré: Until 24 November
Accompanied by the display - Buildings & Prospects: John Piper, photography and the architectural press
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Transport Scotland extends road contracts till March 2012
Body bids to save money by lengthening contracts as it starts procurement process for next wave
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Grontmij made green consultant on 1,123-acre Scottish site
Motherwell brownfield site will house over 10,000 people and college campus
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Balfour Beatty picked for £250m Irish road PPP
Work on 57km stretch of motorway will start early next year
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Less really is less
To retrofit a building for energy efficiency, it’s no good tinkering with insulation or installing a heat pump. Only whole-structure solutions will change our future
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Infrastructure warning
John Cridland, the CBI’s deputy director-general, has warned the government that it will repeat the mistakes of the past if it neglects infrastructure investment in its Comprehensive Spending Review
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Maglev's inflexible
The only problem with maglev (and the reason it is not being adopted widely, even in China) is its inflexibility and inability to handle the passenger flows moving between cities (3 September, page 38).
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How much wood?
I found the words in Building’s leader (27 August, page 3) and the article on timber frame fire risk (page 9) incredible
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Redrow to make move into London housing market
Housebuildiner aims to buy up to four sites by next summer as part of turnaround plan
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Hansom: Leaping lizards
There’s much hurling this week as industry leaders chuck themselves off buildings, press officers throw themselves into their work and Ann Widdecombe launches herself into the highland fling
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God’s work
Architect Paul Davis + Partners and contractor Wallis have completed the restoration of St George’s, a grade II-listed church in north London.
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Fuoco! Fuoco!
Thanks to Rob Kirkaldy of Spectrum Acoustic Consultants for this site scene in Sorrento, southern Italy. Insurers of a nervous disposition may want to look away
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The floating opera
Garsington Opera, which recently moved to Wormsley Park, Oxfordshire, gained planning permission for an auditorium last Wednesday
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The industry that played with fire
David Hayhow gives an insurer’s-eye view of the row over whether timber frame is a safe construction material. As you might expect, he has some fundamental concerns