All Building articles in 2004 issue 12 – Page 2
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Drowning in red tape
The industry is facing dozens of new rules – positively a raft of regulations. Well, you’re going to need a raft to navigate this lot. So will new government body CIPER offer that lifeline?
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NewsDLE to drop 'Everest' as it scales new heights
Top consultant to rebrand as part of switch to limited liability partnership status on 1 May
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Comment
When claims multiply
The appellant, William Roe, had crashed his car into a cable support pole on a tramway in Sheffield and sustained serious injuries. His car had slid in wet weather along the tram rails, which protruded a little from the road surface, and had then "snatched" on the adjacent concrete. ...
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Manchester's Millennium Quarter wins Civic Trust gong
The Millennium Quarter in Manchester was among the winners of the nine 2004 Civic Trust special awards presented in Bristol last Wednesday.
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NewsRay O'Rourke eyes up Chinese cladding firm
Move comes just days after Laing O'Rourke makes offer for Carillion's M&E arm Crown House Engineering
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Comment
Castleford revisited
I am writing to reassure both your readers and Sarah Wigglesworth (28 February, page 28) that the organisers of The Castleford Project are more than aware of the complexities and timetables of regeneration projects.
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CommentGuilty bystanders
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal
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UK directors' buyout rescues HLM from receivers
British architect is bought back as it goes into administrative receivership, two years after it was sold to US firm
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NewsRogers hits out at Brown forum
The government's proposed construction forum, has come under fire after it emerged that senior industry figures had not been consulted on its formation
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NewsBridge on the River Cam
Whitbybird Bridges Team, a subsidiary of consulting engineer Whitbybird, has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge in Cambridge. When completed in early 2006 it will be the first bridge to be built over the Cam for 40 years. The team, which includes sculptor Gerry Judah, beat off ...
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Blunkett set to strip officials of crown immunity
The Government is considering bringing forward legislation to remove a 1000-year-old law protecting crown servants from prosecution for actions carried out in the course of their jobs.
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CommentWonders & blunders
We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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NewsThe beautiful South
This design by Cartwright Pickard Architects for developer Urban Catalyst is one of two schemes in the running for the 2.3 ha Preston Barracks site in east Brighton. The other is designed by Broadway Malyan. Both designs comprise 50,000 m2 of offices, shops and housing for a consortium of Hyde ...
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Halcrow to pay Iraqis top dollar at its new Basra office
Engineer offers skilled Iraqi workers 40 times the going rate as it prepares to pull western staff out of Iraq
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Housebuilders slam ODPM over Barker review
Housebuilders have criticised the government this week for failing to support the Barker review on the undersupply of housing.
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Building Awards shortlists
The shortlists for the remaining four Building Awards categories have been announced.
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NewsAnyone for port?
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has revealed its designs for the Oosterdoks Island development in Amsterdam. The area connects the inner city with the new live–work areas on the harbour piers along the banks of the river.
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Norman Foster, über alles
Foster and Partners' design for a glass roof has just completed at the Free University in Berlin.And the university has honoured Lord Foster with its Transatlantic Bridge Award for architectural achievement. Foster was described by German chancellor Gerhard Schröder as "a man whose life's work has had a truly international ...
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