All Building articles in 2006 issue 15 – Page 4
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NewsCBI to set up PFI lobby group for members
The CBI is setting up a PFI lobby group, to be headed by John Pilkington of support services group Amey
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Comment
Following the car
UK buildings (specifically homes) in the 21st century are still mainly built using technology that is more than 100 years old.
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Metronet plans Canary Wharf-Aldgate Tube link
Tube operator Metronet is to enter talks with London Underground over plans to provide a Tube link between Aldgate station on the Circle and Metropolitan lines and Canary Wharf station on the Jubilee Line.
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NewsByzantine plots
Architect Llewelyn Davies Yeang has won a competition to masterplan an ecological transport corridor linking Istanbul's east and west waterfronts with the rest of Turkey.
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Little Britain to support Paralympic sailing team
Britain's Paralympic sailing team is set to benefit from this autumn's Little Britain Challenge Cup, the annual construction industry sailing contest.
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NewsBridge of size
Brighton-based Brunswick Developments Group has submitted a planning application for this £235m sustainable development at Brighton Marina.
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Brazilian wins Pritzker
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker prize for his work in the city of São Paulo.
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Milton Keynes developers put brakes on ‘roof tax'
The implementation of the Milton Keynes roof tax is being delayed because of uncertainty over the government's proposed planning gain supplement.
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Russia offers rebuild boom
Top UK firms have been approached to undertake billions of pounds of rebuilding work in Russia.
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Employment tribunal to probe M&E blacklists
An employment tribunal on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project has been asked to consider allegations of blacklisting in the electrical sector.
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FeaturesThe big question
Mark Leftly meets the man in charge of the government's £40bn Building Schools for the Future programme - Richard Bowker ...
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FeaturesBattle of Waitrose
Nine weeks they lost to the dead. Nine weeks they struggled to bring to being the store, with quiche bedecked. What cunning? What buildcraft? Thomas Lane tells the tale.
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Comment… Meanwhile, back on terra firma
And thanks to Alan Crich for sharing this novel approach to covering up a big hole in the ground.
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NewsHe's back …
Wakefield council has backed this design by SMC Alsop for The Orangery, a grade II*-listed building in Wakefield.
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Goldman Sachs consortium set to join fight for BAA
BAA is likely to become the subject of a bidding war after it emerged that an investment bank could trump Spanish construction group Ferrovial's £8.75bn offer for the company.
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NewsPolice investigate CSCS fraud at Arsenal stadium
Workers found in possession of fake cards during a routine security inspection of the site
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London tower architect named
The architect of developer Great Portland Estates' 12-storey office building on London's South Bank has been revealed as Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
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Jarvis appoints John O'Kane finance director
Jarvis, the infrastructure support services group, has appointed John O'Kane finance director.
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Amec snaps up French nuclear engineering firm
Amec, the project management and services company, has bought French nuclear engineering company ATM Enterprise for *20.5m (£14.2m).