All Building articles in 2003 issue 22 – Page 2
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Fresh proposals for Elephant & Castle
Fresh proposals for Europe's largest regeneration scheme at Elephant & Castle in south London were unveiled this week by Southwark council as part of the planning consultation process that begins today
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Carillion spies on saboteurs
Carillion has installed secret video cameras on sites to catch out workers vandalising equipment and completed parts of projects
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NewsThe Romanians in Britain
Overseas Human Resources, a recruitment agency that specialises in bringing in immigrant workers, has flown in its first construction tradesman from Romania. Carpenter Ioja Mirt (left) arrived at Heathrow airport last Wednesday. He will work with a north London contractor. Mirt was greeted by OHR directors Yigal Rosenberg (right) and ...
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Bovis to be centrepiece of Lend Lease operations
UK contractor Bovis has become the core business of Australian parent Lend Lease
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Meet the board
Why is the construction industry facing a skills shortage? The answer may have something to do with the gentlemen at the top table
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Comment
A blow to one's pride
The British Council for Offices' Barcelona do was an opportunity for the industry to exchange views, get robbed and become horribly, horribly embarrassed
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Six on the blocks for Olympics masterplan
The London Development Agency has unveiled an international shortlist of six consortiums bidding to draw up a masterplan for Olympic developments in the Lower Lea Valley, east London
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Comment
The housing block
Forget about the Treasury's five tests for joining the euro – the fact is we can't do any such thing until we solve the undersupply of housing. This is why...
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Protect your BITs
Companies considering accepting a job in a half-dodgy foreign country should have a bilateral investment treaty. What's one of those? Ah, what indeed...
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Survivor begins campaign for safer sites
A construction worker who nearly died in a fall launched a Health and Safety Executive campaign for better safety measures this week
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NewsBerkeley's babies
Berkeley Homes is seeking planning consent from Southwark council for Potters Field, a controversial scheme to redevelop Lambeth College and coach park. Designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, the development involves the construction of eight slender mini-towers adjacent to the GLA's headquarters and the Tower of London world heritage site in ...
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FeaturesAn engineer's babelfish
We can create wonderfully powerful and detailed pictures of how buildings behave thanks to an irritatingly repetitive, tedious and costly modelling process. Now one company has found a way to make it all work better
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Wembley was on the brink of collapse, say audit chiefs
Revealed: Plan to create national stadium would have ended in failure if retender plan had gone ahead
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NewsOur father, who art in London
Mitsubishi Estate has reached practical completion at all three principal commercial buildings at the Paternoster Square site in the heart of the City of London. The buildings will now be handed over to the office tenants for fit-out. The public spaces, which include the square and the access roads, will ...
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Amey to buy back Tube stake
Support Services group Amey will buy back its £60m stake in the London Underground PPP. The announcement came after Amey's sale to Spanish contractor Ferrovial was confirmed last Thursday
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Airport workers must prove clean record
Construction workers will, from next month, be required to prove that they do not have a criminal record before they can work in restricted areas at UK airports and ports
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Row erupts after shock survey
Most top construction executives are unconcerned about the lack of women and people from ethnic minorities in the industry, according to a survey by accountant KPMG
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FeaturesSenseless acts of beauty Ltd
Britain's plazas are littered with bad public art commissioned by bureaucrats. Now, artists are collaborating with architects and developers right from a project's concept stage, and afterthoughts are being replaced by grand visions
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Mowlem team lands £47m Lewisham PFI hospital
Contractor Mowlem has beaten off bids from Costain and Jarvis to be chosen as preferred bidder on a £47m PFI hospital scheme in south-east London
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NewsHigh-Point Rendel is owed £4m for overseas contracts
As troubled consultant renews loans, there are fears that planned management buyout may fall through
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