All Building articles in 2004 issue 43 – Page 4
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News
CPA calls for tax breaks on green homes
The Construction Products Association has called on the government to back the industry’s environmental strategy by offering householders tax concessions on low-energy devices.
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Box for brains
Sheffield architect Bond Bryan Associates has designed this bio-incubator building for the University of Sheffield.
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NewsBovis to show off work at Scottish parliament
Construction manager Bovis Lend Lease is to show 100 leading figures from the industry around the £431m Scottish parliament building next month.
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Fresh blow to Jarvis as highways boss quits
John Worthington resigns just as firm starts to rely on highways maintenance division to help cut debts
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CommentWhat goes around …
Here’s a warning to all those clients, and their lawyers, who want to make the granting of extensions conditional on a contractor giving notice about the effects of delay
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Features
Rocking All Over The World
A few years ago, cost consultants were about as fashionable as tank-tops and Y-fronts. Now more and more countries are giving them rapturous receptions as QS mania sweeps the globe. We report on a new British invasion
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CommentOpen mike: Against CABE
CABE’s apparently enlightened opinion that architecture is a force for social good conceals a totalitarian approach to human nature. Luckily, however, it’s wrong
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NewsBrussels reopens HQ after epic refurbishment
After 13 years of arguments, delays and complaints, the most contentious refurbishment project in construction history has come to an end: the European commission has moved back into the Berlaymont building.
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CommentIt’s bad news, I’m afraid
Project managers and clients beware: under certain circumstances, you may fall under the Inland Revenue’s CIS scheme – with unpleasant consequences
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Comment
Tweaking the act
I have just read Tony Bingham’s article in this week’s Building (8 October, page 54). I am aghast at the indecision of review panel number one – the looking at changes to the Construction Act’s payment rules – which surely must have the sense to recognise injustice and abuse when ...
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Mace beats off rivals to win £90m Foster office scheme
Mace has beaten off competition from Interior/Exterior to win a £90m construction management deal to build two additions to a development next to City Hall in Southwark, south London.
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NewsLet’s hear it for … the A650
Tony Blair’s Better Public Building Award has this year gone to a relief road around Bingley in Yorkshire. The 4.5 km A650 road, which includes a suspension bridge across the River Aire, was designed by Arup and built by Amec at a cost of £49.5m. The judges were impressed by ...
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Three vie for 4000-home scheme
National regeneration agency English Partnerships has announced a shortlist of three consortiums for a plan to build several thousand homes in south and east London.
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Westbury’s profit leaps 20% despite gloomy market
… but housebuilder warns that forward orders are down 21%, and Hometrack survey reports house price falls
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NewsMittal plans to forge £11.4bn steel giant
Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate, said this week he planned to create an £11.42bn company that would be the biggest in the sector and a rival to Corus and the Luxembourg firm Arcelor
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