All Building articles in 2004 issue 41 – Page 4

  • Peter Drummond
    Features

    Where next for Britain’s biggest architect?

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Peter Drummond, the new chief of Building Design Partnership, is looking for another £35m of business …

  • Ray Foster
    Features

    Appointments

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    This week's movers

  • Chalk up another
    News

    Chalk up another

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    This design by Building Design Partnership has just been chosen for Leigh city academy in Dartford, Kent. Of the 36 city academies currently in development, the practice has won six – second only to Foster and Partners. The government aims to establish at least 53 academies by 2007 and 200 ...

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Red alert

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Here’s another of Latham’s review panels, this time worrying over the state of adjudication. But it’s adjudicators’ state of mind that should be ringing alarm bells

  • News

    Planners told to prepare for old age

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A report by the Royal Town Planning Institute is calling for “lifetime neighbourhoods” to be created to cater for the needs of the country’s ageing population.

  • News

    RICS: Occupier demand up after three-year decline

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The commercial property sector, which has been depressed for the past three years, has started to show signs of recovery.

  • News

    HSE prosecutes M&E firm four years after site death

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Electrical contractor McDermott Brothers to face health and safety charges over accident on City of London site

  • Comment

    Above financial persuasion

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham (24 September, page 70) says that adjudicators should not be given the power to decide on their own jurisdiction as they have a financial interest in the outcome.Come off it, Tony! Arbitrators have the power to decide on their own jurisdiction, and the courts encourage parties to refer ...

  • News

    Carillion off-loads French business for £10m

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Carillion has made its last major disposal as part of its restructuring plan, with the sale of a French civil engineering and building business.

  • News

    Canny council sells tiny plot of land for £1m

    2004-10-14T10:45:00Z

    West Lothian council sells 9m2 of land to neighbouring landlord so it can sell site to Wimpey Homes for £4m.

  • News

    Jarvis offloads PFI bidding operation to Vinci

    2004-10-13T00:00:00Z

    French firm to snap up chunk of troubled contracting group