All Building articles in 2004 issue 29 – Page 3
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Watts: 'BRE is on a precipice'
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, has called on firms to lobby the Treasury over changes to funding research in construction
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Features
Bowmer & Kirkland knocks Bovis off top spot in June
Derbyshire contractor tops league with two big projects, but it’s business as usual in yearly table
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Paddington trust boss quits
The chief executive of one of the trusts proposing the troubled £800m PFI health campus in Paddington, west London, quit his post this week.
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China's boom sends tidal wave through UK
The industry is experiencing the highest ever rise in material costs, according to figures released by accountant PKF.
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M&S bins Lifestore concept
Retailer Marks & Spencer is to scrap its Lifestore concept less than six months after it was introduced.
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NewsGalliford Try and Bilfinger hitch NHS LIFTs
A consortium including Galliford Try and Bilfinger sign NHS LIFT contracts with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Care Trusts, and Liverpool and Sefton LIFT.
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CommentBeware your friends
If two firms snuggle up, and then one finds that the other is (metaphorically) picking its pockets, can it get a judge to intervene? The Court of Appeal had this to say …
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HSE probes site death of Belgian worker in Wales
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating why a Belgian worker fell to his death in Wales last week.
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CommentThe battle of Twickenham
The funny, bitter, heartwarming tale of six men who came together to work on a London pub and found themselves transformed into a band of brothers …
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FeaturesGuess who's back in town
For years, English Partnerships was widely criticised as an irrelevance. After Gordon Brown’s spending review, however, it has £30bn of land in the bank and big plans for developing it. We report on what’s coming next
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BAA considers two-second monorail 'taxis' for Heathrow
Airport operator weighs up smart mass transit system that can deliver passengers to exact destination
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NewsESA over Asda
ESA Architects has gained planning consent for its Dolphin site in Romford, Essex. This mixed-use development will provide an extension of about 10,000 m2 to the town's main shopping centre, complete with 229 flats and communal gardens. Work starts on site shortly. The project team included Walsh Associates as structural ...
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RMC’s Spanish arm buys firm
Readymix Asland, the Spanish subsidiary of cement group RMC, has acquired aggregates company Hormigones Ciudad Real. Completion of the deal is dependent on clearances from the Spanish competition authorities.
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Comment
Rethinking arbitration
The unmitigated success of adjudication leads us logically to reassess the potential of a streamlined version of arbitration to deal with more complex cases
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Comment
Another part to the story
Your article “Experts warn of risk from unsafe glass” (18 June, page 17) states that the Building Regulations offer insufficient protection to the public from floor-to-ceiling windows and that architects are free to specify non-laminate glass.
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NewsThreat of sex smears forces Montpellier off animal lab
Police investigate letters from animal rights activists threatening to make bogus claims about hundreds of staff
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NewsAnimal lab protest will continue say demonstrators
Demonstrators vowed to oppose any contractor appointed to complete the construction of Oxford University's new Biomedical Research Facility
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Ballast man joins Amec
Nigel Brooks, former operations director at Ballast, has joined Amec as managing director of its UK buildings operations.
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NewsAlsop's latest menu
Architect Will Alsop has unveiled two designs for the New Islington project in east Manchester. The one pictured left is called “Chips” because it look like stacks of chips; the other is called “Urban Barns”. Chips will be located beside a new canal inlet, and in a nod to Manchester’s ...
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NewsHunt is on for Fourth Grace designer as Alsop is axed
After throwing out Will Alsop's winning scheme, Liverpool is set to tender for replacement in September
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