All Building articles in 19 September 2008 – Page 6

Comment
Standing up to the mob

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Discussion about the merits and demerits of immigration usually takes the form of endless tabloid flood warnings. Nick Raynsford urges us to put the other side of the argument
Features
Make has triplets

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham – two in terracotta allude to the city’s geology, the third is even more heavyweight …
News
Multi-faceted learning

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Architect Broadway Malyan has received outline planning permission for this £24m sixth-form college and centre of excellence in Stoke-on-Trent.
News
Nuttall purges its Olympic subcontractors

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Nuttall has terminated its contracts with three of its suppliers on the Olympic Park site.
News
Land of hope and glory

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Native Land has secured £56m funding from Bank of Scotland Corporate to develop a 2.5-acre site on London’s South Bank.
Features
Generation gripe

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Fed up with eager young pups at work who don’t know they’re born? Or had enough of hearing how it was back in the old days?
News
Gateway standards

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

All new homes built in the Thames Gateway may have to meet standards such as Building for Life and BREEAM after Cabe said they should be a mandatory part of a “design pact”.
Features
A game of musical jobs

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

This year’s Hays/Building Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that … Debika Ray reports
News
Mixed fortunes for Galliford

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Galliford Try has reported a flat profit of £60m for the year to 30 June after incurring £9.1m in land writedowns and £1.9m in redundancy costs.
News
Fine form

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Willmott Dixon has been appointed to build this £20m academy in Tipton, West Midlands.
Comment
Put out that fear

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

In response to your story, “Insurers warn of fire risk from green roofs” (5 August, page 12), there is little, if any, evidence to suggest that green roofs significantly increase the risk of fire.
News
Profit falls at Stewart Milne

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Profit at Scottish contractor and housebuilder Stewart Milne has slumped 40% as a result of the ailing housing market.
Features
Phase One: Edinburgh

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Building’s networking event took a new twist when it went to Edinburgh this month by giving attendees a sneak preview of Rab Bennetts’ £42m Informatics Forum – a futuristic realm of computer wizardry and flying robots. Katie Puckett and Dan Stewart joined the snoopers
News
Dutch masterplan

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

This is the first view of Anglo-Dutch architect S333’s masterplan for the regeneration of the area around Derriford hospital, to the north of Plymouth.
News
New Dublin

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

A €1.2bn (£950m) town development close to Dublin has been granted planning permission.
Comment
Eat, drink, fall overboard

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

It’s Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best – sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats
Comment
In the detail

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?
News
Rogers and Foster shun nuclear design framework

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

EDF lines up big-name architects for new-build programme, but fails to entice the biggest names of all
Features
Dead meat

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

The plunge in land prices, which is much steeper than the nineties slump, has been observed by cash-rich buyers circling high in the sky. Now they’re hoping to swoop when the market hits the bottom. But who are they and when will they strike?
News
Urban Splash to cut jobs as downturn grips North-west

2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

Regeneration firm joins growing list of regional casualties – but denies it will close Birmingham office