All Building articles in 2004 issue 28 – Page 2
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News
Industrys number crunchers chew over the details
Chancellor Gordon Brown has raised the government’s capital expenditure in public services over the next three years by 7.5% in real terms.
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FeaturesA giant leap for a brickie
Behrokh Khoshnevis has seen the future of construction, and it involves robotic arms, multiple nozzles and buildings that can be put up in hours in either Basildon or the Sea of Serenity. The University of Southern California professor tells us about the technology that he believes will be commonplace in ...
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News‘Very, very good’ engineer is bought out of receivership
Foremans buys UK arm of rival consulting engineer Roberts and Partners after management buyout fails
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NewsNew boss at WYG keen to broaden firm’s horizon
John Purvis, chief executive of White Young Green, explains why the £120m-turnover firm is looking to Europe
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport
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Comment
Bleeding edge design
The construction industry is in a state of permanent revolution, which puts a lot of pressure on those of us who have to build things
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Comment
A lovely bit of judging
What is a judge to do when an adjudicator has clearly made a mistake but there are no grounds to rectify it? Judge Thornton took an unusual route to get the right result
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News
Birse to halve building division
Contractor Birse is set to reduce its building division to a turnover of £30m after revealing the operation cost them £30m in the past five years
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NewsBeyond beer
Architect ESA has received planning consent for a mixed-use leisure and retail centre in Cheltenham for developer Salmon Harvester. The 23,000 m2 project will integrate two existing buildings on the site of the former Whitbread brewery. The solution satisfied the local planners, who were keen to ensure the developer was ...
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Comment
No beautiful swan
The government should accept that the Quality Mark is a dead duck and let it sink without trace (2 July, page 15). This may well have been a manifesto commitment, but it will be a manifesto embarrassment at the election if taxpayers’ money continues to be squandered.The original intention was ...
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News
Concrete group defends House of Commons barriers
A concrete lobby group has hit out over a call by security service MI5 to replace the concrete blocks protecting the Houses of Parliament with steel barriers.
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NewsAsite faces ‘passing off’ claim from software rival
BIW Technologies consults lawyers over Asite’s collaboration software, which it says is too similar to its own
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News
Pair reach peak of profession at Apex
Kent-based Apex Contractors has promoted Ian Cannings to managing director and has appointed Richard Lane non-executive director.Cannings joined Apex as a director in July 2003 from Wates, where he headed up its £90m turnover fit-out arm, and plans to set up a dedicated interiors business at Apex. He said: “Apex ...
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Rogers’ tall ambitions in China
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership is pitching for a series of skyscrapers in the Chinese city of Guangzhou
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Features‘What happened to Pat cannot be allowed to happen to anybody ever again’
On 15 January, Patrick O’Sullivan was killed while working on the Wembley national stadium project. His family tells us that those responsible must be held to account
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CommentMurphy’s law in action
What do you do if you find that life on site cruelly punctures the naive hopes in your tender? Well, you try to get the client to pay more, don’t you? Yes, but how?
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NewsJarvis boss: Break-up of PFI arm is ‘absolute nonsense’
Robert Wallace, new head of Jarvis Accommodation Services, says he is here to save struggling firm, not sell it
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News£800m health campus may be saved by land transplant
St Mary’s NHS Trust looks at using developer Chelsfield’s land for ailing PFI scheme in Paddington, London
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NewsAcquisition gives Rok 50m Scottish presence
Construction group Rok has a £50m presence in Scotland after buying the construction arm of Glasgow-based John Dickie Group for £750,000.
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