All Building articles in 2006 issue 17 – Page 3
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NewsJones replaces Sanders at G&T
Quantity surveyor Gardiner & Theobald is set to appoint managing director Simon Jones as its managing partner following the retirement of Peter Sanders last Friday.
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CommentNow is good
Now is a great time to be an architect, with liberated aesthetics, resurgent creativity, rethought modernism - and a welcome new distraction …
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Giving and receiving
Melville entered into a contract for the design, construction and completion of a residential development in Glasgow. The contract form was the Scottish Building Contract with Contractor's Design Sectional Completion Edition (January 2000 Revision) issued by the SBCC. It incorporated the conditions of the JCT With Contractor's Design 1998. ...
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Plea for planning gain tax to be levied locally
The Town and Country Planning Association has pleaded with the government to allow the proposed planning gain supplement to be levied locally.
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NewsRosy future
Cartwright Pickard Architects has submitted a planning application for this £12m mixed-use scheme in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
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NewsFens and fowl
A £3.5m wildfowl visitor centre designed by Allies and Morrison opens next week at Welney in the Norfolk fens.
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CommentNo end of a lesson
The government's 21st-century schools extravaganza is in deep, deep trouble.
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NewsFaster home delivery
The merger of the Housing Corporation and EP is good news for housebuilders
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NewsLiverpool lashes out at cut in EU funding
Liverpool council has strongly criticised the government for not lobbying on its behalf after it emerged that its European funding for regeneration is to be cut by two-thirds.
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OFT set to crack down on housing repair sector
Smaller builders expected to be hit hardest in new wave of inquiries as OFT continues hunt for industry cartels
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NewsFeilden's country pad
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects has become the first architect to be granted planning approval for a country house under the ODPM's policy statement on sustainable development in rural areas. PPS7 permits such buildings, even if they contravene the local development plan, as long as they are designed to "the highest ...
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FeaturesCost model: Infrastructure
Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon looks at the design considerations, procurement issues, financial risks and sustainable technologies associated with the delivery of infrastructure for a brownfield, mixed-use development
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Private concerns
As the newly appointed chairman of the Association of Consultant Approved Inspectors (which represents about 30% of the building control industry), I would like to endorse the five manifesto proposals, particularly the first two. It is noted however, that the private sector building control was not included in the summit, ...
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CommentThe collaboration game
The non-adversarial NEC3 contracts could serve the Olympic project well, but the design team needed to drive it forward raises some tricky questions of its own
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Foreign Office wins first City job
Foreign Office Architects has been appointed by developer the Beetham Organisation to design a 8400 m² commercial project in the City of London.
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FeaturesRadical chic
Bloomsbury's unloved 1960s Brunswick Centre has never lived up to Levitt Bernstein's ground-breaking vision - until now. Thomas Lane went to see what's been happening, and discovered a transformation that is causing a stir among retailers and residents alike
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Cyril Sweett launches building surveying division
Quantity surveyor Cyril Sweett has launched a building surveying division based in London and Bristol.
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NewsMuldoon: Cleveland Bridge is ‘incompetent and devious'
Multiplex project manager denounces steel subcontractor in opening statement as Wembley case gets under way
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Bowcott hearing under way
Amec was this week presenting evidence at an employment tribunal case brought by Steve Bowcott, the former managing director of its UK construction services business.