All Building articles in 2005 issue 15 – Page 2
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NewsPurple glaze
An £18m health centre in Hounslow, Middlesex, with Willmott Dixon Construction as design-and-build contractor, Penoyre & Prasad as architect and Caxton FM as facilities manager, is the first project of a local improvement finance trust (LIFT) company set up in west London.
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FeaturesThe future
Assuming the polls are right and Labour wins the election, there are still several major obstacles remaining.
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NewsThe great housing experiment
The decision to allow private sector housebuilders to bid for housing grant is about to turn the social housing world upside down. We look at some possible outcomes.
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Election focus group: The industry speaks out
Building has assembled a panel of five industry figures, and each week we will interview them to find out what they think of the parties’ campaigns and who is the frontrunner to secure their vote. Interviews by Eleanor Snow
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CommentHow to be a good dog
What does an adjudicator do if a ‘litigant in person’ is up against a multinational represented by a top lawyer? Ensure that the proceedings are fair, that’s what
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Roger Knowles: No discrimination
Having provided hundreds of jobs for women in my company over a period of 30 years, I was disappointed to read the comments from Sarah Bourne in last week’s Building.
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FeaturesWhen disaster strikes
The earthquake that struck Indonesia just three months after the Boxing Day tsunami should be a warning to us that in high-risk areas we need to build – and rebuild – with more than one type of catastrophe in mind. We examine the findings of a new report on disaster ...
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Diplomatic triumph
Rem Koolhaas’ Rotterdam practice, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has won the top European architectural award for its Dutch embassy in Berlin, completed last year.
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Comment
Let the market decide
In your article “Housebuilders reject ODPM’s latest revision of PPG3” (24 March, page 20), you report on plans to give councils a say in what types of housing are built in their areas.
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FeaturesThe debate
Building and sister magazine Property Week joined forces with the RICS to host three debates with the three main parties’ housing representatives. Here’s what they had to say
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NewsHBF tries to strike deal over revised housing mix rules
Housebuilders’ body calls for councils to lose planning veto on schemes that comply with proposed PPG3
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CommentMy day in court : A worst-case scenario
In the first of a series of articles about firms that get entangled in the law, Chloë McCulloch tells the story of Southgrange vs Woodgrange
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Lifts and escalators
In the latest of our specialist market overviews, Robert Nicholson of Gardiner & Theobald looks at hot topics, lead times, key suppliers and costs in the lift and escalator sector – plus a specialist manufacturer is put under the Q&A spotlight
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CommentConsidering Louis Khan
If you want some perspective on your own problems, how about contemplating a genius’ lifelong struggle with rejection at the hands of a confederacy of dunces?
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RICS survey shows upturn in commercial sector
Growth of commercial rents rises 2.2% in three months to February, reversing three-year slowdown
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FeaturesThe comment
How do the parties look from the point of view of a volume housebuilder? Here Redrow boss Paul Pedley looks at the three main parties’ proposals
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Clients face wave of upfront payment demands
Specialists set to take action unless Construction Act review protects them against insolvent employers
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Labour and Tories clash over housing
The Labour and Conservative parties squared up over housing reform and environmental building policy as they launched their election manifestos this week
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NewsA poisoned chalice
If a contractor offers to ‘accelerate’ work on a delayed job the employer should be aware that it may involve giving away a lot of money and legal protections
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