All Building articles in 2005 issue 42 – Page 3
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CommentConsider the evidence
After an accident such as Hatfield, prosecutors come under pressure to launch a case. But too often they go ahead without having a leg to stand on
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NewsData New-build completions in September
Completions and private registrations have held up well over the past 12 months and daily sales are ahead
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FeaturesCity Hall revist: Time has told
Ken Livingstone did not want Building to revisit his ‘Beehive’ City Hall three years after completion. Could it be that this 21st-century landmark has not achieved its low-energy targets?
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Revenue makes U-turn on CIS scheme
The Customs and Inland Revenue has bowed to increasing pressure from the construction industry and fellow Whitehall departments and agreed to delay the start of its CIS tax scheme by one year.
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Winning work in China
The Chinese market is beginning to open up to specialist contractors from the UK, say industry experts.
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NewsUniversity challenge
The Scottish division of Balfour Beatty has been awarded the £27m phase-one contract for the University of Edinburgh’s Potterrow Development.
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Handled with care
A new accreditation scheme is offering training and indemnity insurance to construction professionals taking on the vital role of asbestos inspectors
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NewsCABE to settle density row at summit next month
Proposal to impose minimum housing densities threatens to split design watchdog as landmark report is finalised
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Bovis chooses Scottish head
Bovis Lend Lease has promoted Gordon Anderson to head its Scottish business.
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Bovis Lend Lease grabs September top spot
Contractor’s £510m of work last month pushes it up to second in annual league, above Laing O’Rourke
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Bovis to build London’s largest student halls
Contractor teams up with Blackstone and First Base to convert two 14-storey towers in King’s Cross
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CommentWonders & blunders
Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire
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On being naughty
Is this a cautionary tale of an innocent subcontractor hounded by the big bad tax man? Or was its ‘minor and technical’ infraction actually something more?
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FeaturesAt first It was like the battle of the Somme
Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …
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QS fee rates fall behind architects and engineers
Survey shows QS fees rose just 6% over five years, but hourly rates for project managers are increasing
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Hot air
The defendants installed an extractor fan on their property which protruded through the side of the wall into the claimant’s rear garden. The claimant commenced legal proceedings arguing that the extractor fan trespassed into her garden and that it also constituted a nuisance. The claimant sought an injunction requiring the ...
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MP attacks Highways Agency
A Northamptonshire MP has warned the government that its growth area strategy will fail unless it prevents the Highways Agency from, in effect, blocking developments.
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Redrow gets tough over affordable housing
Redrow Homes has warned councils that it will only increase output of its Debut homes – affordable houses aimed at first-time-buyers – if they do not insist that they be used for social housing.
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