All Building articles in 2006 issue 11 – Page 4
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Comment
How to be clever
Intellectual property rights are vital to ensure you can exclusively exploit a technology or design, but how do you ensure you've got the right level of protection?
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News
Davis Langdon to open Philippines skills centre
Davis Langdon is to open an engineering academy in the Philippines to counter a worldwide skills shortage.
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CommentTime to Cannes MIPIM
MIPIM started as a harmless chance to swap business cards in the sun. That was before it all got out of hand, with parties and the rise of the sinister ‘Organisers'
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NewsKen in Cannes
The mayor of London revealed at this year's MIPIM property fair that he has called in architects PRP and Dunster Associates to advise the GLA on how to make new developments zero carbon …
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News
Iconic buildings planned for Lake District
A series of iconic buildings are to be built in the Lake District national park.
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Comment
Building unfair to Mowlem
I would like to express my distaste at your depiction of Mowlem staff versus those of Carillion on the cover and feature in Building dated 3 March.
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NewsLeeds, take a bow
Carey Jones Architects has won planning permission for this £10.5m "innovation hub" on Leeds University's western campus.
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Bovis Homes links profit fall to smaller houses
Bovis Homes said this week that its increasing emphasis on smaller, cheaper homes had contributed to a 20% fall in profit in 2005.
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NewsKingspan boss sets out plans for world domination
Gene Murtagh aims to double size of materials business every five years and expand across globe
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Costain boss plans to reduce operating sectors
Andrew Wyllie, the chief executive of Costain who was appointed last September, has completed a strategic review of the business and plans to slash the sectors in which the company operates from 15 to 10.
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FeaturesPlace your bets
The consensus in the industry is that the office market is finally back. But which particular project should you be trying to win work on?
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NewsDLR extension to boost Barking Riverside
The embattled Barking Riverside project, one of the most critical regeneration sites in the Thames Gateway, is to move forward after the government approved an extension to the Docklands Light Railway.
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Comment
The new balance of power
A dispute arose under a construction contract between the appellant architects, Roberts and the respondent developer, Parkcare. The construction contract incorporated the model adjudication procedure published by the Construction Industry Council subject to an amendment to clause 29 made by the RIBA standard conditions. The amended clause 29 provided that ...
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Comment
Bingham back at school
Tony Bingham's typically tongue-in-cheek "nursery school" article, (3 March) was in fact a serious commentary on the recent all-day conference held by the DTI to try to repair some holes in the otherwise successful adjudication provisions, now some eight years old. There were 150 industry "all sorts" invited to inform ...
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Prescott faces fresh attack on housing market renewals
Critics seize on statistics that predict higher than expected demand in the North to oppose demolitions
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Argent wins fight to revamp King's Cross
Developer Argent has won a six-year battle to secure planning permission from Camden council for its scheme to regenerate King's Cross.
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Euston, Victoria architects named
Two of the developers shortlisted for the redevelopments of Euston and Victoria stations have signed architects to masterplan their bids.
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Ken signs up green architects
London mayor Ken Livingstone this week signed up two top architects to help set tough BedZED-style targets, as he called on UK construction to make sustainability the key priority.
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DSDHA emerges as new architect on the block
Young architectural practice DSDHA is emerging as a significant player after it won an appointment to work alongside Foster and Partners in central London.
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