All Building articles in 2004 issue 06 – Page 2
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Cat, pigeons, pigeons, cat
Just when we thought we'd got a handle on how adjudication is supposed is to work, along comes Judge Wilcox and introduces a feline to the coop …
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Cockler deaths spur CSCS call
George Brumwell, the chairman of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme, is to press the government to make the card scheme compulsory for foreign workers in construction.
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Detention centre pay row comes to boil
M&E union Amicus is to hold a meeting with more than 60 electricians working on a £45m immigration detention centre near Heathrow airport.
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CommentWonders & blunders
James Sunley takes his hat off to the wonders of the Michelin building, then thumbs his nose at David Wilson's anonymous estate
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NewsCan do better
Schools standards minister David Miliband this week named the 14 local authorities that will spearhead the government's Building Schools for the Future plan, which aims to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England. In the first wave, due to start in 2005/06, £2.2bn will be shared between 180 schools ...
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Beginning in sight for Battersea Power Station
Construction work on the £600m redevelopment of Battersea Power Station is to start next year, according to Bovis Lend Lease.
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HBF warns Barker not to 'rig the market' for land
Housebuilders fear commercial developers and quangos will get 'special treatment' to boost competition
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James Barham sells Rialto Homes to Fairview
James Barham, who has a personal fortune of £71m, has sold his housebuilding business to property firm Fairview.
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Housebuilders fight back
HBF warns Kate Barker against ‘rigging’ the land market in favour of office developers or housing associations
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NewsBroker's notes: A-wooing and eschewing
Is love in the air this Valentine's Day for you, dear readers? I know of many amorous chaps and chapettes in the City who are getting quite excited in anticipation of their steamy Saturdays.
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Aukett directors face the axe from shareholder
Leading directors of listed architect Aukett face the axe in an extraordinary general meeting to be held next month.
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NewsPFI attacked for lack of openness
The Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank close to the Labour Party, has called for greater transparency in PFI deals
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NewsAnything you can design …
Richard Rogers Partnership has joined the skyscraper race by submitting a planning application for a 48-storey office tower in the City of London for the British Land Company. The skyscraper would face the architectural practice’s award-winning Lloyd’s Building across Leadenhall Street but rise to 225 m, more than twice as ...
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FeaturesCost model: Affordable housing
Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain …
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HSE inspectors consider action over 'pay cut'
Health and safety inspectors are to vote this week on whether to take industrial action over their pay dispute.
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NewsGateshead hall to get world's funkiest acoustics
Laing O'Rourke's £70m Tyneside concert hall is fitted with state-of-the-art panelling system
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NewsContractor braced for claims after theft of accident books
Concrete firm John Doyle believes two of its site documents have been sold on to personal injury lawyers
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NewsMPs' outrage at £757m Wembley bill
A leading parliamentary committee this week released a report into the £757m project to redevelop Wembley national football stadium.
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Wanted: Staff for 70-hour week in Iraqi desert
Recruitment consultant Beresford Blake Thomas is looking for Arabic-speaking construction workers prepared to put in regular 70-hour weeks in the middle of the desert in Iraq.
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Edinburgh to get 40-storey tower
Beetham plans to extend brand to Scotland after success in Manchester
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