All Building articles in 2005 issue 23 – Page 3
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News
Industry stands still on cost
The industry is still not doing enough to improve its record on cost and time overruns, according to this year’s annual key performance indicators, released by Constructing Excellence.
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Comment
The cost of copyright infringement
Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) exists to enforce and protect the exclusive right to play in public, and to authorise the playing in public of, copyrighted sound recordings that have been issued to the public. Mr Reader was part of a partnership that owned a club in Brighton. In 1999, ...
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FeaturesConstruction: no place for women!
You’d think the industry would have moved into the 21st century by now, but when it comes to recruiting women it seems more like a 1950s Harry Enfield spoof. So does the industry not want women or is it they who aren’t interested?
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Comment
English: a construction skill
Your feature on immigration from the new entrants to the European Union (20 May, pages 26-29) chimes with the findings of the RICS’ UK construction industry survey earlier this year.
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Comment
Conspiracy theory
Stephen Ratcliffe, chief executive of the Construction Confederation, suggests that my article on the ailing CSCS scheme amounts to an outlandish conspiracy theory (20 May, page 17).
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News
CSCS may be made compulsory
Industry bodies have called on the government to use the CDM regulations to make CSCS membership compulsory in trades with high responsibility for site safety
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NewsCity of the future
Reid Architecture has unveiled images of its £90m regeneration project in Birmingham, involving the demolition and redevelopment of Edgbaston shopping centre, owned by Calthorpe Estates.
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NewsCoventry City may sue Laing O’Rourke over late stadium
Football club considers legal action after contractor admits £113m Ricoh Arena will be too late for season openers
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NewsNouvel change
Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled plans for a landmark retail and office development at 1 New Change in the City of London, close to St Paul’s Cathedral.
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CommentThe Dickens of a case
Mr Bumble had a point when he said the ‘law is a ass’ – as was borne out recently by a High Court battle that could have been settled with a phone call
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Comment
How to sing like a canary
The Office of Fair Trading is putting firms who operate cartels in a dilemma: do they keep shtoom and hope nobody finds out – or blow the whistle first?
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NewsFourth Maggie’s Centre turns confusion into calm
Cancer counselling centre in Inverness uses landscape designs of Charles Jencks, husband of cancer victim Maggie
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News
Influential CABE figure quits
The man behind the explosion in housing reports and lobbying at CABE has quit to join a specialist housing architect.
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NewsMace director quits to set up fit-out firm with old boss
Operations director Matt Bray leaves after six months to start Paragon Management with ex-Bellwater chief
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Comment
When the wind doesn’t blow
You have asked for opinions on starting a new nuclear power station program (20 May, page 13).
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Comment
Standard bearer
I find it difficult to understand why Alan Thomas (Letters, 29 April, page 39) doesn’t think the BRE certification scheme could work for modern methods of construction, particularly as he quotes Peter Hewlett’s paper detailing the methodology of the British Board of Agrément’s approval scheme.
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NewsGriffiths in more hot water over Bath Spa
Former construction minister Nigel Griffiths is set to face further questioning over his intervention in the Bath Spa scheme after it emerged that he had not been briefed by his department on the affair
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Comment
Bingham bashing
I was the architect involved in the case that Tony Bingham wrote about in his article “Too much to ask for” (27 May, page 48).
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CommentWatching their own backs
Designers have been terrified into assuming responsibility for site safety – so much so that they now have to spend more time saving themselves than the workers
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CommentGo back to square one
The law dealing with negligence and defective buildings is a mess, and every time the courts look at it, they make things worse. We need to start again …
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