All Building articles in 18 December 2009 – Page 8
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Features
The Green Surge
When the decade began, sustainability and zero carbon were mostly of interest to eco-enthusiasts
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Good projects
This was the decade of the “iconic” towers, sustainable homes and very big infrastructure schemes
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CommentWe’ve never had it so good
You can’t see much when you’re in a hole, but the truth is that the noughties were in many ways a wonderful decade
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Three gaffes
Operation HIPS The introduction of home information packs was Labour’s main policy idea to improve the housebuying process and make homes more green
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FeaturesWhat’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Ken Livingstone became London’s first elected mayor in 2000 after being expelled from the Labour party.
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Five feuds
1 Norman Foster vs Ken ShuttleworthNorman Foster took a leaf out of Stalin’s book when he doctored a photograph in a belated attempt to distance himself from former colleague Ken Shuttleworth. The two had fallen out after Ken gave an interview to Building in which he claimed much of the ...
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Mott MacDonald puts Fulcrum to work on Masdar eco-city
Environmental consultant Fulcrum is to be brought in to work on the £13bn Masdar carbon-neutral city in the UAE as the first fruits of its purchase by UK engineer Mott MacDonald
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FeaturesThe disappeared ones
All the world’s a stage, and the people and companies merely players. Here are some of those who made their exit in the noughties
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What we know now that we didn’t know then
SustainabilityBack in 2000, most of us didn’t know our PVs from our elbows, and sustainable design was the preserve of strange men with beards.TwitterWhat did we do before the ability to share our shopping list with the world in 140 characters or less? Or our thoughts on construction topics, of ...
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CommentThe decade from hell: Legal review
It ended badly and, to be honest, it didn’t start that auspiciously either, but at least it also contained some reforms that may well stand the test of time
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Timeline of the decade
Here what was happening in the outside world when Building was doing its stuff (spiced up with our favourite quotes of the decade)
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Lancsville may lose Croydon job
Lancsville Construction is in talks that could lead to it losing its place on a £28m scheme in Croydon
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FeaturesThe olympic dream and its cost
The announcement, on 6 July 2005, that London had won the battle to host the 2012 Olympics was met with unbridled joy not just for the millions of bid supporters, but also from a construction industry rubbing its hands together at the prospect of billions pounds worth of work
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A third of UK job cuts over past year were in construction
More people lost their jobs in the construction industry in the third quarter of 2009 than any other UK sector, according to the latest government figures
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Comment
Low conduct
A major point overlooked by Richard Steer in his article Buyer Beware (13 November) is that all partners and directors in consultancies have a duty under their professional indemnity (PI) insurance policy to take all reasonable precautions to prevent losses or liabilities arising in connection with the insured risks