All Building articles in 2005 issue 27 – Page 2
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FeaturesSchool project
Mitie has just opened its first two construction skills centres for 14-16 year olds
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Comment
No need to panic
Further to your article regarding the proposed closure of the mastic asphalt course at Manchester School of Construction at Manchester College of Arts and Technology (27 May, page 13), we hope we can attempt to set the record straight with regard to the joint efforts that are taking place between ...
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News
Minister to make planning more responsive to market
Housebuilders welcome Yvette Cooper’s plan to overhaul of PPG3 and force councils to release land for housing
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Comment
Know thyself …
Re: Do you recognise these people (24 June, page 41)? Yes, I am one of them!It’s the Fitzroy Robinson Partnership class of 1988 – this photograph accompanied an article in Building on 5 February 1988 called “Fresh Visions”.On the left is Kevin Dash, 65, who left FRP in 1991 and ...
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FeaturesHidden shallows
As soon as Brunel’s 19th-century SS Great Britain was taken out of the sea, it began to corrode. Now a restoration team has found a way to preserve its hull while also giving it the illusion of a return to the open water.
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Industry hails victory for the whole of the UK
All regions set to benefit from training facilities and base camps for more than 140 competing nations
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Comment
The path to follow
The “Pathfinder” demolition programme that you describe (24 June, page 44) sounds just like it was in the 1960s: lots of slum clearance and, to follow, system buildings.
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Wembley to be Londons green exemplar
London mayor Ken Livingstone is to test his plans to make London the most sustainable city in the world in regeneration areas next to Wembley stadium and at Elephant & Castle.
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News‘Everybody is so happy, it’s euphoric’
Minutes after the announcement of London’s victory was made, an emotional Gary France, a director at construction consultant Mace, spoke to Building from the restaurant in Singapore where the bid team had gathered to celebrate
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Comment
An engineering solution
With a little bit of law and technology we can use standard electrical appliances to a) reduce carbon emissions by millions of tons and b) make money …
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FeaturesDesigner Power
Gus Alexander heads to Portobello Road, Notting Hill, to take a look at a swanky residential scheme that is a testament to the very hands-on approach of its architect
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FeaturesKill or cure?
As fewer and fewer contractors are willing to pay £4m for the chance to win a £100m PFI hospital, the government is being forced to decide between single-bid tenders and increasingly painful delays …
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News
More complaints at GMV
More residents have come forward to complain about noise transmission problems at London’s Greenwich Millennium Village. The development follows an a Building investigation in May, which revealed problems with some apartments in the scheme.
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… and there’s nothing to cheer
Research company Experian this week said it expected construction output growth to slow to less than 2% for this year and next.
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Comment
Waste in the chain
The headline “Prescott targets suppliers in drive to cut housing costs” (10 June, page 24) is unfortunate, and at odds with the article itself.
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CommentAn unsafe case
The Appeal Court has cleared two men of guilt over the death of a boy who fell into a septic tank. But why were they prosecuted under safety legislation anyway?
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NewsA capital idea
This mixed-use scheme straddling the Grand Union Canal is one of an array of London projects exhibited at an architectural gallery in the capital, which opened this week. The design, by Stiff & Trevillion Architects for Derwent Valley Holdings, is part of an exhibition of the £100bn of regeneration work ...
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CABE calls for icons for the common man
CABE has warned the government not to concentrate exclusively on inner-city regeneration at the expense of more suburban areas.
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