All Building articles in 2003 issue 12 – Page 2
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NewsTwo-month hole in CTRL work
Tunnelling work on part of the £5.2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link will be delayed for at least eight weeks after a 10 m deep hole opened up at Stratford, east London, last month
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Comment
Just deserts, on two counts
I would like to respond to two of your articles. Firstly, I am troubled by environmental matters – I see all the energy we use and the waste we generate and wonder how can we sustain this?
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NewsUS to keep plum Iraq contracts
British construction companies will not win any major contracts to rebuild Iraq because of strict US government procurement guidelines
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Contractors get training in Egan principles
Construction think tank Be, formerly Collaborating for the Built Environment, has launched a training package to help firms implement the Egan principles of collaborative working.
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Comment
Vote of no confidence
Harking back to Tony Bingham's "Blair vs Hussein" article (28 February, page 50), I would find in favour of Mr Hussein.
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Comment
Lost clauses
An architect can't just put the RIBA adjudication provisions into a contract with a homeowner and hope for the best. If he doesn't draw attention to them, they may be worthless
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Middle classes welcome
In the first of a new series, Brian Moone accuses columnist John Smith of inverted snobbery
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NewsOfficer class
Architect HLM Design has been retained by the Ministry of Defence to design its £38m Defence Sixth Form College in Loughborough, Leicestershire.The 19,000 m2 scheme will start on site next month, and when it is finished will house 350 students. HLM Design will do the interior and landscape design. ...
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Civils spending forecast to fall in three years
Expenditure in the civil engineering sector is expected to fall within three years, according to a report by Market & Business Development.
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Research may help industry to win charge exemption
Government-backed research report says industry must improve logistics or keep paying full congestion charge.
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NewsChancellor puts his man in charge of PFI policy
Treasury unit is given enlarged brief and extra resources to push through public buildings before next election.
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NewsMcCarthy brothers take on father
Brothers Spencer and Clinton McCarthy aim to challenge the dominance of McCarthy & Stone, the company that belongs to their father John, in the retirement housing market
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NewsBritish firms may shun contracts in post-war Iraq
Contractors express worries over reaction of staff and insurers if they win reconstruction work.
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NewsBoy-oh-boyo
Construction will start next week on the 72 m Altolusso tower in Cardiff. The 22-storey block, which will be the highest residential housing scheme in the Welsh capital, comprises 292 apartments ranging from one-bedroom flats to luxury penthouses with views over Cardiff Bay. The scheme's client is Redrow Homes; architect ...
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Trade body fears end of monthly housing data
Manufacturing trade body the Construction Product Association is lobbying the government to stop proposed changes to the release of housing statistics.
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NewsRound the bend
The £2.3m Lawford's Wharf development on the south bank of the Regent Canal in London has been completed. The mixed-use scheme in Camden Town was designed by architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft for Berkeley Homes. It comprises three buildings, two of which are new build. The third is ...
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Wales gets astronaut school
Swansea council has granted outline planning permission for the £10m Welsh International Space Academy on a 40 ha site in Swansea.
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Students get a taste of architectural world
Architects including Richard Rogers and Will Alsop have gone into schools and colleges to help sixth-form students produce alternative designs for some of the UK's landmark buildings.
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Comment
An appealing offer
This was an appeal and cross appeal from the first instance judge's order in respect of costs. The case itself related to physical and sexual abuse at the defendant's children's home, but the point in this appeal relates to costs and Part 36 offers. Royal & Sun Alliance was the ...
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