All Building articles in 2005 issue 04 – Page 2
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NewsNorman Foster honoured as Great Briton
Lord Foster is awarded a Great Briton Award for his outstanding British Achievement in the Creative Industries.
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NewsKingston University wins £3m grant for sustainability centre
Kingston will use government money to teach sustainability to built environment students.
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NewsDetectives probe police charity boss home extension
Former head of police charity in North Yorkshire arrested as detectives examine local builder’s paperwork.
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BBC architect to revamp north bank of the Thames
Ken Livingstone invites MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to draw up plans for 2 km promenade to rival South Bank.
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Freedom of Information Act set to expose bid rigging
Clients and contractors may be obliged to divulge tendering data that could leave them open to legal challenges.
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Comment
What’s your poison?
Asbestos turned into a disaster for construction partly because insurers failed to spot the danger quickly enough. Could they be doing the same now?
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Features
Regeneration in practice: Manchester
One of the city’s most crime-ridden housing estates is being given a John Prescott makeover, complete with signature architect and PFI funding. We report on how Plymouth Grove is going from war zone to des res
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FeaturesThe naked project manager
Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he’s happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4’s Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management’s answer to Jamie Oliver.
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Make loses home town job
Star architect Ken Shuttleworth has been snubbed by his own home town after his firm failed to win a key masterplanning project in Birmingham.
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NewsLavender Hill job
Architect Colwyn Foulkes & Partners has completed a £2.5m office and residential scheme at Lavender Hill, south London.
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CommentHigh hopes
The urban summit will be all about high policy and big money, but the battle will be won or lost at the level of the local, the mundane and the beautiful
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Government set to launch quality mark replacement
DTI wants to replace failed anti-cowboy initiative with scheme run by trade bodies before general election
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CommentSo this is freedom
Lost a tender to a competitor for no apparent reason? Under the Freedom of Information Act you can find out what went on behind closed doors and maybe make a claim …
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FeaturesThe experts’ view: Think tank
What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, Building assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...
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Comment
Words of experience
Having read your article on aid relief to South-east Asia (14 January, page 15), I would like to draw your attention to my own experiences working in Pakistan and Afghanistan, for several years, in a variety of different organisations.
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NewsElegant Elephant
The first major redevelopment of the Elephant & Castle area in south London is being undertaken by Oakmayne Properties and is due for completion next year.
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CommentMuch done, more to do
Credit where it’s due. When John Prescott and his colleagues gather in Manchester next week to take the pulse of the regeneration effort, they can feel a little pleased with themselves (see pages 40-52).
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