All Building articles in 2005 issue 49 – Page 2

  • News

    Developers sign 15000 home deal in Liverpool

    2005-12-09T12:05:00Z

    Four housebuilders to take on controversial regeneration work

  • News

    Berkeley hit by £13m profit fall

    2005-12-09T11:37:00Z

    Developer says it will still meet targets

  • News

    European ministers sign sustainable communities agreement

    2005-12-09T10:40:00Z

    Almost half of Europeans live in communist era housing, commissioner reveals

  • Simon Vivian and John McDonough
    News

    Carillion writes down £120m in £291m Mowlem takeover

    2005-12-09T07:00:00Z

    Contractor set to become £4bn-turnover giant in league of Amec and Balfour after snapping up troubled rival.

  • News

    Ticket to Ryde

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Marks Barfield Architects has unveiled this design for the £6m Ryde transport interchange on the Isle of Wight.

  • News

    Jumbo tower

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Architect Hamilton Associates wants planning permission for this 42-storey tower at Elephant & Castle, south-east London.

  • News

    House prices to rise – just

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Average house prices are forecast to rise 1% over 2006, according to housing research company Hometrack.

  • Bishops Square in Spitalfields
    News

    Hip to be square

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners’ design for Bishops Square in Spitalfields was this week named joint winner of best built project at the London Planning Awards.

  • Stephen Stone
    Features

    In the shadow of the heron

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Stone had just taken up the top job at Crest Nicholson when rumours began to circulate that Gerald Ronson’s Heron International was hatching a second takeover bid.

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Bah humbug: raining on David Cameron’s parade, bloodthirsty board games on the Christmas do circuit, plus Cyril Sweett and the Ebenezers

  • The Welsh assembly building has been designed as an undulating timber-lined canopy stretching out to Cardiff Bay
    Features

    Open government

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    It feels like a million miles from the labyrinthine Holyrood. Lord Rogers’ Welsh assembly is all about transparency: in fact, it’s mostly a canopy open to Cardiff Bay

  • Andrew Hemsley
    Comment

    Easy money

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Loopholes in the NEC’s target contract mean contractors can use their old tricks to make a profit rather than taking a share of any project savings …

  • Simon Massey
    Comment

    Don’t be evasive

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Take advantage of the fact that the Construction Industry Scheme has been postponed 12 months because, make no mistake, HM Revenue means business

  • Comment

    Sorry, that’s discontinued …

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A notice of adjudication was issued on 10 June 2004. On 6 July, the claimants served its response. On 7 July the defendant accepted that the adjudicator did not have jurisdiction. The adjudication was discontinued and the defendant paid the adjudicator’s account.The claimant then asked the adjudicator for a decision ...

  • Sir Michael Latham: Tackling the management challenge
    Features

    The second degree

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Building reports on the launch of a dedicated construction MBA

  • News

    Nice cube

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham Development Company has been granted planning permission to build the final phase of the Mailbox scheme.

  • News

    CPA warns industry that recession is imminent

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Products Association has warned that the construction industry is heading for recession

  • Napier: Quit in protest over watered-down code
    News

    Sustainability code slammed

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Senior industry figures have slammed the government’s long-delayed draft code for sustainable buildings, saying it falls well below current standards and that the ODPM went behind their backs to produce it.

  • Features

    Cost model: Mixed-use city-centre schemes

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Mixed use is increasingly the name of the game for town-centre developers. But can uses such as retail and residential really mix? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the practicalities and costs of mixed-use city-centre schemes

  • News

    Gleeds gives Redgrave new Olympic challenge

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    QS signs up Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave as company ambassador for the 2012 Olympic programme