All Building articles in 2005 issue 09 – Page 2
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News
Industry election agenda calls for less red tape
Less regulation, an improved planning system and more public investment lie at the heart of election agenda drawn up by industry bodies.
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NewsCSCS cards mandatory on Bovis Lend Lease sites
Bovis Lend Lease insists that all workers carry a skills card on site.
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NewsPartnerships for Schools launches national frameworks
Frameworks for the Buildings Schools for the Future programme will include project management, technical and legal firms.
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Shuttleworth in race to build 250m PFI hospital
Former Foster partner hopes to extend fledgling practice into public sector with Forth Valley scheme.
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NewsJudge slams construction manager in landmark case
Industry experts react to £10m court ruling against Laing by defending beleaguered procurement method.
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Government to impose strict rules on all public contracts
OGC prepares dramatic shake-up of regulations – and promises to pay contractors on time.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase ‘close to the flightpath’, the team building Heathrow’s new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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Comment
No such stipulation
I am writing in response to your article on the Bath Spa, “Money down the drain” (11 February, page 26).
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Comment
A victory of sorts
Insurance companies may have failed in an attempt to stop payouts to workers with a lung condition caused by asbestos, but they did manage to limit compensation
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CommentShock and or
It happens all the time – a contractor thinks the spec means one thing, the client another. In this case it ended in a judge’s interpretation of the word ‘or’
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News
RDAs voted worst regeneration vehicle
Regional development agencies have been voted the least successful of all bodies at delivering regeneration projects, a survey of leading industry figures has revealed
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Comment
Ryding with Rab
I couldn’t agree more with Rab Bennetts’ call for an accepted, industry-wide methodology for measuring the performance of buildings (11 February, page 15).
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CommentThe race for second place
Waking up to find that the Tories have regained popularity is certainly a strange feeling. Maybe they can fail a bit better this time
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Comment
Silenced partner
I have noticed over the years that when you profile a landmark project in your publication, you rarely make mention of the specialist M&E subcontractors used by a listed main contractor and I have often wondered why.
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Comment
Time to organise?
I agree with the recent views of Colin Harding and Chris Charles (Letters, 18 February, page 34) – small firms in the construction industry do need better representation.
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make £35bn of efficiency savings – and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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Features
Just the job
Tim Johnson trained as a QS but quickly took a career swerve into an emerging sector
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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