All Building articles in 2005 issue 48 – Page 4
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Building writers hit winning streak at industry awards
Building writers won five awards at last week’s International Building Press Journalism Awards ceremony in central London. Mark Leftly, the features editor, scooped the Construction Journalist of the Year award, news editor George Hay took the prize for Feature Writer of the Year, Housing editor Josephine Smit was named ...
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Atkins reports profit despite Metronet losses
Support services group Atkins this week revealed a solid set of results for the six months to the end of September, despite a £3m provision on its Metronet investment.
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Immigrant workers arrested
Immigration officers this week arrested 12 suspected failed asylum seekers working on a £560m Ministry of Defence construction project, in what is believed to be part of a wider crackdown on illegal workers in the industry.
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CommentArchitects of our downfall
Colin Harding CABE acts for an architectural elite and against the interests of the construction industry in general. The result is an approach to building that you might call Blairist …
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NewsBig architects share out East London Line spoils
Wilkinson Eyre, John McAslan + Partners and Scott Brownrigg win contracts on stations and regeneration schemes
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NewsBy royal appointment
Oxford architect Berman Guedes Stretton has been appointed for a £1.4m lecture theatre at Queen’s College, Oxford University, after winning a limited competition against Rick Mather Architects, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and van Heyningen & Haward.
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ODPM finance director appointed Olympic tsar
Andrew Lean becomes Olympic co-ordinator for the civil service, as ODPM undergoes wide-ranging shake-up
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Comment
The appliance of science
Attending the Sustainability Awards organised by Building last month brought home to me that the age of sustainable buildings has finally arrived.
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FeaturesJust the job: Gemma Clark in the Antartica
Structural engineer Gemma Clark explains why her winter is going to be even chillier than ours …
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NewsMayor offers to trade affordability for ecology
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, London mayor prepares to adopt a more flexible approach to housing criteria
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NewsTheatre for little adults
The UK’s first purpose-built children’s theatre opens this week behind City Hall on London’s South Bank.
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Wembley plumbing contractor goes into administration
The troubled Wembley Stadium project endured another setback this week after its plumbing contractor went into administration.
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CABE adds design quality plan to PFI debate
CABE is continuing the PFI debate by recommending a seven-point plan to improve design quality.
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CPA demands action on gas price increases
The Construction Products Association this week wrote to trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson warning of the “serious consequences” that rises in gas prices would have on UK materials companies.
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Comment
Send the academics on site
Despite 30 years’ experience in building control, I no longer feel confident on site that what I am looking at achieves the requirements of the regulations; also, when asked for advice I don’t always have the answer straight away because the regulations have become too complicated.
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NewsAmec to sell French arm after taking £70m hit
City reacts with scepticism as firm announces plan to sell Spie and split into two separate companies
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Barts paying £500k a month in PFI interest
The cost of the UK’s biggest PFI scheme, the £1.1bn Barts and The London NHS Trust, is rising by £500,000 each month because it has not reached financial close.
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Amec workers at T5 join call for extra bonuses
Three hundred Amec workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 have added their voices to the demand for extra bonuses.
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NewsChina hires Atkins to plan 48 cities the size of London
Consultant to work with Chinese government on cities the size of European capitals, each housing up to 6 million
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