All Building articles in 2006 issue 15 – Page 5

  • Comment

    After the flood

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The defendant water company, Thames Water admitted liability for loss and damage caused by water escaping from a burst water main. The water from the burst pipe damaged much of the valuable archives of Aerospace, a publishing company. Following the flood, Aerospace wished to restore the archives and asked ...

  • Comment

    Everyone's an administrator

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The essence of Andrew Hemsley's article (31 March, page 61) is that architects no longer enjoy a monopoly as contract administrators - "many professions can bid for the job".

  • News

    HSE targets designers in drive to cut site accidents

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The Health and Safety Executive is to look at how changes in the design process can reduce accidents on site.

  • St Paul’s conversion: Opening day is in doubt
    News

    Flagship city academy on hold after busting budget

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Questions raised over accelerated delivery programme as £20m St Paul's Academy in Greenwich faces delay

  • News

    Consultants abandon ‘unreliable' Part L software

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Architects and engineers switch to costly long-hand methods after giving up on BRE's compliance program

  • News

    O'Rourke in line for £350m mall

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Laing O'Rourke has been tipped to beat Bovis Lend Lease and Sir Robert McAlpine to a £350m shopping centre in Cardiff for developer Land Securities

  • Richard Steer
    Comment

    London 2013

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The success of London's glossy Olympic bid presentation hinged on the city's ability to provide a legacy beyond 2012. So shouldn't we start doing something about it?

  • Contractors were believed to be trapped under collapsed scaffolding and up to 20 were hurt after two walls of a Jury’s Inn hotel under construction in Milton Keynes collapsed on Tuesday.
    News

    20 hurt in scaffold collapse

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Fourteen storeys of scaffolding have collapsed at a building site in Milton Keynes, trapping several people and injuring up to 20.

  • A done deal: Scott Brownrigg’s design for some of the Allenby/Connaught facilities
    News

    MoD's £12bn PFI barracks reach financial close

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    One of the UK's biggest PFI projects, the Ministry of Defence's £12bn Allenby/Connaught barrack renewal programme, has reached financial close more than four years after it was first tendered.

  • Freeborn: Failed to save his firm
    News

    Curzon owed bank £11m before financial collapse

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Building investigation reveals that fit-out group went into receivership last month owing subcontractors £3m

  • News

    Praise an engineer - and win £10,000

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Prizes worth a total of £35,000 are to be awarded for positive portrayals of engineers in the media.

  • Dubai property
    News

    Property and transport in Dubai

    2006-04-06T15:12:00Z

    With its non-stop development, luxury accommodation in Dubai is easy to come by for those wanting to buy or rent.