All Building articles in 2004 issue 48 – Page 2
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NewsUrban Splash wins iconic Sheffield redevelopment
Developer Urban Splash has won one of the highest profile regeneration schemes in the country, the redevelopment of the Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
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Government in talks over skills qualifications
The government is in talks with construction chiefs over creating a register of reputable trade body skills qualification schemes.
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NewsSharewatch: Less than festive
There was little to cheer about when the markets closed last week. Shares across most of the construction and building materials sector dropped, pushing the sector overall down 2% to 2924.
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Comment
Everyone’s a winner
The Housing Corporation has been given the power to make grants to private housebuilders – but believe it or not, housing associations stand to gain from this as well
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Comment
UK shares Europe’s guilt
As reported in Building (19 November, page 15), Alan Wood has exposed the unfair practices that European governments use to exclude British companies from their public sector contracts.
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Row erupts over housing targets
A political row has broken out after a regional assembly voted to reject government housebuilding targets for the South-east
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Comment
The prongs of doom
Time and again adjudications end in failure because the courts detect bias. Here’s another case where a botched job inevitably results in a load of wasted money
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Features
Seven wonders of islamic design
From sandbags to soaring skyscrapers, this year’s Aga Khan Awards are a timely reminder of the diversity of architecture in the Muslim world
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Hochtief quizzed over ‘cheap labour’ claim
GERMAN contractor Hochtief has been accused of basing bid costs for a project in Scotland on the use of cheap Romanian workers
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CommentThe scrabble for cash
Four years ago, when construction was comfortably ensconced at the old Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the government ran a scheme called Partners in Innovation.
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NewsMayor calls for denser housing
The London section of the Thames Gateway growth area has the potential to accommodate up to 120,000 houses, according to London mayor Ken Livingstone,
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Call for delay to tax launch
The construction industry’s tax committee has asked the government to delay the start of a new tax scheme because firms need more time to comply with the rules.
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NewsCalder comfort
Plans have been announced for the second phase of a £30m regeneration scheme in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Developed by Binks Vertical and designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects, the scheme is located on Mill Royd Island – a peninsula site located between the River Calder, the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal ...
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Gateway bridge delayed over ecosystem fears
A public inquiry may be held into the proposed £425m Thames Gateway bridge if its backers do not modify the design to takes account of some environmental concerns
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Bovis Homes delayed nine months on Yorkshire scheme
Housebuilder has yet to issue revised completion date for 227-home development after catalogue of setbacks
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Comment
A BTEC in boredom
Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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CommentThe theory of black holes
he phrase ‘defined provisional sum’ in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort
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