All Building articles in 2004 issue 37 – Page 2

  • News

    Monolithic makeover

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Stonehenge is gearing itself up for one of the world’s biggest conservation projects after a comprehensive planning application was submitted this week by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the National Trust.

  • Miralles' magnificent mess
    Features

    Miralles’ magnificent mess

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    We review the Scottish parliament building.

  • Comment

    Legalaid

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Our legal experts consider what the options are when a contractor fails to complete work on time but no programme of works exists. They also uncover the legislation that defines what ‘quality’ means for new-build homes

  • News

    Oxford wins lab injunction

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Oxford University has been granted a temporary High Court injunction to protect workers on its biomedical research building from intimidation by animal rights protesters.

  • News

    No place like home

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Architect Allies and Morrison’s glazed office development at 85 Southwark Street has won the 2004 London Building of the Year Award from RIBA London.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Holyrood: The reckoning

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.

  • News

    HELP!

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Caroline Sanders is a typical house hunter, looking for – and not finding – the home of her dreams in Oxford. So we gave her CABE’s new book The Home Buyer’s Guide to see what difference 110 pages of advice make. Here she reveals all

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Salty tales of life on the briny as the industry hauls on the bowline and splices its mainbraces for four days of maritime amusement at Little Britain

  • News

    Swiss steel takes flight

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Zurich Airport’s £192m Airside Centre opened this week.

  • News

    Tory leader sets out plan to reform energy regulations

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Michael Howard outlines scheme to replace Part L of Building Regulations with a single thermal energy target

  • Yelland: Hired to improve Multiplex's image
    News

    Multiplex hires ex-Sun editor

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Multiplex has given David Yelland, the former Sun editor, the job of looking after its media relations in an attempt to improve its image in the UK

  • News

    Jarvis to off-load PFI division

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Jarvis, the troubled support services group, is planning to sell part or all of its key PFI division, Jarvis Accommodation Services

  • Prescott: Call for investment in off-site manufacturing
    News

    Prescott disappointed with industry

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, has told housebuilders that he is disappointed by their lack of progress in increasing capacity to meet government housing targets

  • Comment

    What the deuce …?

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    We would like to clarify that Capita Symonds is the lead structural engineering as well as civil engineering consultant for the Wimbledon Centre Court project (3 September, page 16).

  • Michael Latham
    Comment

    In defence of Peter

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A message to letter-writers and sub-editors: we’re lucky to have Peter Lobban as head of the CITB, and his remuneration package reflects this fact

  • Comment

    Cyclists are normal – honest!

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The introduction to your article about elevated composite cycle lanes (27 August, page 50) was a bit over the top, even for late August. Cycling in London is not only for the superhuman.

  • News

    David Curry

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Booming property prices mean more households are levied for inheritance tax, but proposals to reform the rate of taxation are merely tinkering – they don’t resolve the underlying issues

  • News

    MP: Paddington hospital report vindicates critics

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A Conservative MP has described last week’s review of the £800m PFI Paddington hospital in west London as one of the most damning of a public sector construction in recent history.

  • Yurtsever (pictured) and Jones: In charge of Mace's People consultancy
    News

    Mace launches in-house recruitment consultant

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Business aims to fill 600 internal vacancies over next year while providing recruitment service to rivals

  • Comment

    Natural justice, common sense

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham’s discussion of McAlpine vs Transco, which concerned the introduction of new material in the course of an adjudication, missed a bit out