All Building articles in 2005 issue 48 – Page 2

  • News

    Welsh government accused of carelessness with grants for £43m Botanic Garden

    2005-12-02T14:59:00Z

    Assembly members allege "breathtaking" lack of diligience over European money.

  • News

    Government decision on rail crash enquiry delayed

    2005-12-02T14:18:00Z

    Announcement on Potters Bar put off for a week

  • News

    Construction industry heading for recession, trade body warns

    2005-12-02T12:12:00Z

    Construction Products Association fears first annual decline since 1994.

  • Sir Fraser Morrison
    News

    Morrison in court over sale row

    2005-12-02T10:24:00Z

    Water firm AWG says it was misled by tycoon

  • Heathrow's T5
    News

    T5 workers vote for strike

    2005-12-02T09:51:00Z

    GMB members at Laing O'Rouke are to walk out in bonus row at Terminal 5.

  • Kate Barker
    News

    Cabinet split over Treasury’s planning gain supplement

    2005-12-02T07:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown set to announce further consultation in pre-Budget report, despite ODPM opposition.

  • News

    ODPM finance director appointed Olympic tsar

    2005-12-02T07:00:00Z

    Andrew Lean becomes Olympic co-ordinator for the civil service, as ODPM undergoes wide-ranging shake-up.

  • Comment

    Tall tale?

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    I was prompted to write concerning the article in on the design of high-rise building following the events of 9/11 (4 November).

  • Angela Monaghan
    News

    Sharewatch

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Persimmon effect

  • Features

    This season’s trends

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    It may sound paradoxical, but falling consumer spending is triggering a retail boom, as shop owners employ upgraded design and the latest thinking from the States to stimulate shoppers’ spending reflex.

  • Comment

    Sort out your papers

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The laws on illegal workers are set to get tougher, so make sure your procedures are watertight now

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    You’re mistaken, m’lud

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    In Carillion vs Devonport, the Court of Appeal was right to back an adjudicator’s decision to award interest, but in doing so it made some unhelpful comments …

  • Queen Mary university in Mile End
    News

    Student mile

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Morrison Construction is set to start work in the autumn of next year on a block for Queen Mary University in Mile End, London.

  • The strangeness, if not the complexity, of Zaha Hadid’s science centre in Wolfsburg starts with the external view of the concrete shell
    Features

    Zaha’s strange logic

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    It’s the disorientating combination of counter-intuitive form and formal rigour that gives Zaha Hadid’s Wolfsburg Science Centre its architectural kick. Here’s the thinking behind it …

  • Glasgow city centre
    News

    Lighting up the waterfront

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish executive has given the green light for Glasgow city centre’s Custom House Quay, a £200m privately funded development on the Clyde Street waterfront.

  • York House
    News

    Doing the Lambeth York

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Lambeth council in south-east London has given planning permission for York House, a 91,440 m2 office building on Lambeth Palace Road for Delancey Estates.

  • Features

    Join the queue

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The anticipated sale of Westbury to rival Persimmon may improve the housebuilding sector’s standing in the City, but it could also lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs – if Persimmon’s track record is anything to go by.

  • Comment

    Listen, this is important

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Delay analysis is too pivotal to disputes to remain shrouded in mystery or to be left to the experts. Here’s what you must understand about the four main techniques …

  • News

    Smart idea

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Architect PRP has designed a compact 35 m2 modular flat for Notting Hill Housing Trust.

  • News

    Holiday wrangle payout

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Engineering contractors May Gurney and Morrison Utility Services must pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to workers after losing a row over holiday pay.