All Building articles in 19 June 2009 – Page 4
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Comment
Can we fix it?: Repair and maintenance
Repair and maintenance contracts are starting to look rather tempting, now money’s thinner on the ground. But there are some particular challenges involved...
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News
A disaster guide
The RICS, the RIBA, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute have launched a guide to using construction expertise in disaster zones
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Features
No cuckoo’s nest: mental healthcare markets
The Department of Health is encouraging mental health trusts to invest in well-designed, user-friendly facilities for their patients. Emily Wright looks at the construction opportunities in this specialist market
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Comment
Crossing a lien
I write regarding Rupert Choat’s article “Asking for the moon” (5 June, page 47)
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News
CPA issues decent homes warning
The Construction Products Association has called on the government to set a timetable for bringing social housing up to the decent homes standard
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Features
Cost model: Universities
Universities are vital in maintaining the UK’s place in the knowledge economy and have been major building clients over the past 10 years. How will higher education clients approach tougher times? Simon Rawlinson and Laurence Brett of Davis Langdon look at emerging trends in the sector
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Features
Stuck in the middle: it’s a hard life for medium-sized contractors
When you’re too big to be small, and too small to be big, life can be very inconvenient – as Britain’s medium-sized contractors are finding out. Roxane McMeeken reports on their predicament
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News
Prince Charles given say in major London schemes
Developers of King’s Cross and Battersea Power Station admit checking designs with prince
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News
It's housebuilding, but not as we know it: how the industry will be changed by the crash
After the blind panic of 2008 and the restrained optimism of 2009, housebuilders have begun to think about the way forward
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Comment
Devil take the hindmost: A six party case
Here’s a story about a flood in an office that caused millions of pounds of damage and gave rise to a six-party legal case. The question, of course, was who was going to pay
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News
Call to regenerate
Housing charity Shelter has called for the housing market renewal pathfinder scheme, to regenerate unpopular areas of the North and Midlands, to get funding beyond 2011.
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News
Bucking the Trend…
Rider Levett Bucknall Continues to Recruit and Develop Talent in the Recession
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Comment
Boyle's law
A certain Scottish singer is not the only thing that has captivated the Americans in recent times – mid-sized UK quantity surveying firms are also finding favour
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News
Golden boy: Media building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Willmott Dixon has been appointed to build the £20m media and communications building at Goldsmiths, University of London
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News
Bottom of the market
House prices are likely to bottom out at the start of 2010, a property consultant has said
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Features
Our man in Riyadh: Buro Happold’s boss moves to Saudi
With a stream of UK companies looking for work in Saudi Arabia, Buro Happold decided it had do something to maintain its position as top dog. So it sent its chairman, Rod Macdonald, to go and live there. Emily Wright spoke to him two weeks after he arrived
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News
Recovery hopes boosted by plunge in helpline calls
Sudden fall in number of smaller firms seeking help on employment issues cheers industry bodies
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
Jonathan Goring finds Liverpool’s Academy of St Francis of Assisi inspiring, but reckons it was a dark day in Leeds when planning permission was given to Ian Simpson’s Lumiere
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News
Plan to cut court bills on trial in Birmingham
A scheme to reduce the price of going to court for smaller builders is being tested at Birmingham’s branch of the Technology and Construction Court