All Building articles in 2001 issue 05 – Page 2
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Yorkon to trial prefabs in home city
Murray Grove team of Yorkon and architect Cartwright Pickard to start work in spring on modular scheme to tackle York's housing crisis.
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Churchfield plunged into financial turmoil
Fit-out contractor prepares to go into administration as source blames troublesome London project.
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Countryside Environmental centre, Redditch, Worcestershire
Wolverhampton practice On Line Architects designed Redditch's countryside centre for water sport clubs and to educate children about the local environment.
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CIC calls for undergraduate safety training
THE Construction Industry Council intends to call for mandatory undergraduate training in health and safety at this month's safety summit.
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Rogers to lobby for Carlisle's landmark bridge
Fate of Studio E's £1.8m bridge in doubt after council calls for Millennium Commission funds to be withdrawn.
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Mergers set to breed super housebuilders
After taking over Beazer, Persimmon boss predicts sector will be swallowed by five 10 000-unit firms.
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Government and industry team up to stop brain drain
Construction bodies to draw up proposals to halt the decline in the number of industry professionals.
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Birse directors form own firm
Three of contractor Birse's top Midland directors are leaving to form their own project management business.
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Mine's bigger than yours
Leeds' Bridgewater Place could become the tallest residential building in the north. That is until Manchester comes up with something even higher.
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Benefits of good design proven
Good urban design adds economic value to regeneration schemes, according to detailed research to be published next week.
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Madel behaviour
Stanhope is determined to build quicker and cheaper. At its £46m mixed-use scheme in Holborn, it is trialling simulation and materials-handling software that should allow it to do just that.
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Legal battles push Birse into red
Disputes lead to £24m of exceptional items, but Lincolnshire contractor insists that it has put its house in order.
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Balfour Beatty pulls out of MCG
Balfour Beatty has quit the Major Contractors Group claiming that the organisation does not represent the needs of top firms.
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Kapoor and McAslan's art pavilion trumpets Sally Army
This collaboration between artist and architect will provide London with a new Thames-side landmark.
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The Engineer's Contribution to Contemporary Architecture
The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary ArchitectureAngus MacdonaldThomas Telford£25.00168 pagesHeinz Isler by John ChiltonEladio Dieste by Remo PedreschiPeter Rice by André BrownGiven that structural engineering is central to modern architecture, there is a great deal of mileage in exploring the relationships of the two disciplines at their most synergetic. The ...
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Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City
Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the CityKatherine ShonfieldRoutledge£19.00204 pagesWhy does my flat leak? Why is brutalist architecture so impersonal? What on earth does this have to do with Mary Poppins? And having read Katherine Shonfield's intriguing study of these critical questions, am I any the wiser? Shonfield sets out ...
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Architect wins in Doncaster
A Glenn Howells-led design team has won an RIBA competition to design a £6m performance venue for Doncaster council and Doncaster college. The team beat competition from Pawson Williams, Levitt Bernstein, EEA, Tim Foster Architects and Law & Dunbar-Nasmith.
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Appointments
ContractorsNorthern-based Totty Construction has appointed Philip Mason quality manager.Colin Ford has been appointed construction director at Midlands-based regional contractor Pettifer Construction. He joins the company from Shepherd Construction.Graham Howe, previously with Willmott Dixon Construction, has joined Norwich-based JS Hay as operations manager.Taylor Woodrow has appointed Tony McGarahan director of ...
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Real millennium answers
December's Real millennium quiz led to a flood of well-researched entries – and one contestant who thought Cherie Blair spent £1m on baby Leo's nursery. And although no one got all 50 teasers right, the five winners answered between 41 and 45 questions correctly. They each win a state-of-the-art DVD ...
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Another glass mountain
Richard Rogers Partnership designed this £100m scheme next to the Tower of London for Taylor Woodrow Property.
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