All Building articles in 2005 issue 26 – Page 3
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Comment
Plugging the gaps
Building relatively airtight dwellings is not rocket science (Letters, 17 June, page 36).
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FeaturesHead first
Former headmistress Valerie Bragg has been a leading player in implementing Labour’s schools strategy. Here she tells us about why architecture doesn’t really matter – and how she got on with Norman Foster at the Bexley academy.
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News
RIBA prize to include new emissions yardstick
THE RIBA is to judge entrants for this year’s sustainability award, part of the Stirling prize ceremony, against a new energy and emissions declaration scheme designed by Edge Group, an environmental body.
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Comment
Easy as JCT
The new suites of JCT contracts are rolling off the presses, the ink is barely dry and already Helen Garthwaite (24 June, page 58) is wanting to amend the forms.
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News
Liverpool demolition stalls
Plans to demolish hundreds of homes in Liverpool have been put on hold after public opposition.
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Morrell plans school delivery forum
Paul Morrell, the president of the British Council of Offices, is looking to set up a similar industry forum to facilitate the government’s £5bn school building programme
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Whitehall to be told industry can deliver nuclear plans
Banks explore ways to fund a new-build power station programme as ministers prepare for autumn debate
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NewsDarwen’s evolution
IWA Architects has received planning consent for this development of 17 apartments and houses on a 0.25 ha site on the outskirts of Darwen in Lancashire.
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Social housing firms urged to cut profits
Housing Corporation chairman Peter Dixon expects to squeeze profits up to 10%
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NewsThe curtain rises
Architect Stanton Williams’ £10m redevelopment of the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry has gone on site.
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Comment
Colin’s utopia realised
So Colin Harding (17 June, page 35) proposes a new “all-inclusive contract” linking design consultants and supervisors through a single agreement that defines their individual and collective responsibilities, and expands also to include constructors, specialists and subcontractors.
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NewsCrest Nicholson warns of ‘challenging’ market
Crest Nicholson, the housing regeneration specialist, has warned that the market remained “challenging” in the short term at least, and that it had not recovered from the pre-election slump in activity
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Inspector rejects plans to demolish Camden market
Camden market has been saved from demolition after deputy prime minister John Prescott endorsed a decision to block the redevelopment of Camden Tube station.
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NewsCurzon call
Architect Hamilton Associates will this month submit its Curzon Park masterplan in Birmingham for planning permission.
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District surveyors vote for link with building control
Members of the District Surveyors Association have voted to merge with the Local Authority Building Control Services.
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Bolkestein talks imminent
Officials from European construction organisations are to meet the government in an attempt to protect the industry from the effects of the European Union Services Directive, also known as the Bolkestein directive.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Stuart MacDonald loves the 1960s and says we should reclaim its brutalist architecture from ham-fisted embellishments
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