All Building articles in 2004 issue 45 – Page 3

  • News

    Construction to be offered at GCSE

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Students will be offered GCSEs in construction from next year as the industry steps up its drive to attract young people,

  • News

    Ideal playing conditions

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    David Morley Architects has been awarded an RIBA East Midlands Award for its National Cricket Academy at Loughborough University. The indoor facility is the world’s largest purpose-built cricket training centre. It includes a roof light, pioneered by the architect, that allows the centre to operate without artificial light for most ...

  • Features

    The dream comes true

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has joined forces with the V&A to produced the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery and a library of its prize drawings collection

  • Shape of things to come
    News

    Shape of things to come

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Winchester firm Architecture plb has released images of its design for the St Matthew Academy in Lewisham, south-east London.

  • News

    Children’s hospital is running more than six months late

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    £60m Evelina hospital in London, designed by Hopkins Architects, delayed by ‘complexities of the building’

  • Comment

    Don’t forget to check

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The defendant building contractor secured a contract to carry out works of improvement to a sewage treatment works owned and operated by the claimant water company that treated wastewater. The claimant’s engagement of the defendant was under the terms of a design and build contract which incorporated a specification that ...

  • News

    Jarvis proposes key debt changes to shareholders

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Company’s future hinges on banks’ willingness to increase credit as money continues to haemorrhage

  • News

    Election casts doubt on Smith’s CABE job

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Cabe's prospects of securing former secretary of state for culture Chris Smith as its chairman could be undermined if the government decides to hold a late general election

  • Comment

    For CABE

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Two weeks ago, Ian Abley wrote a column accusing CABE of trying to use architecture to control human behaviour. Here, the commission’s chief executive responds

  • Comment

    Take a deep breath

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It’s a strange thing, but often a consultant who is liable and has been negligent may be better protected than one who is liable but hasn’t been negligent

  • News

    McCarthy boss steps down as profit soars

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Keith Lovelock stepped down as chief executive of housebuilder McCarthy & Stone this week as the firm posted record profits.

  • Comment

    Fresh blood at the RIBA

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA council has in the past been accused of being too conservative in its thinking and edicts, and as with all institutions there is a tendency to be retrospective.

  • News

    Lipton blasts CABE inquiry evidence as ‘not true’

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Former CABE chairman hits back at select committee witness angered by disputed Croydon Gateway site

  • Features

    Ask Edward

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The government is eager to increase drug testing in ‘safety critical' workplaces such as building sites. But what does this mean for employees' rights and responsibilities?

  • News

    HTA Architects trailblazes Prescott’s Northern Way

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Housing specialist and property firm appointed to pioneer regeneration plans for Tees and Don valleys

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • No harassment zone: Oxford animal laboratory
    News

    Oxford wins court ban on animal lab protesters

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Oxford University has been granted an injunction to stop animal rights protesters harassing contractors at the site of its £18m animal testing laboratory.

  • London’s 2012 Olympic stadium: The striking futuristic roof design by Foreign Office Architects was inspired by muscles in the human body
    News

    London Olympics team unveils ambitious plans

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The 2012 London Olympic bid team has unveiled its vision of a purpose-built Olympic park on the Lea Valley in north-east London.

  • Comment

    No job for an amateur

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Arbitrators have turned their institute into a chartered body that enforces high professional standards … which they should now impose on adjudicators

  • News

    Manchester airport closes framework deals

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Manchester Airport Developments is finalising framework deals with consultants and contractors for its £1bn, 10-year construction programme,