All Building articles in 2006 issue 22 – Page 4
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NewsRooms available
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, has unveiled plans for the £100bn Bawadi complex - a 10 km strip of 31 hotels.
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Aukett Fitzroy Robinson restructures team
Quoted architect Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has expanded its senior management team after appointing its director of offices to the board and promoting 14 architects to associate level.
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NewsGleeson to sell concrete arm to management
MJ Gleeson is in advanced talks to sell its concrete repairs business to its management team.
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‘Roof tax' areas could avoid planning gain supplement
The government is considering exempting "roof tax" areas from the planning gain supplement in an attempt to allay fears that developers might have to pay both.
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Capita captures architect
Capita Symonds has completed the acquisition of architect Ruddle Wilkinson, making the multidisciplinary consultant the second-biggest architect in the UK.
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Architect SMC makes biggest purchase yet
Architect SMC Group has made its biggest acquisition with the purchase of architecture and design company Charter Consultant Architects.
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Soothing words for Mr Angry
The architect who wrote the Open Mike entitled "Anger, tedium and malice" (12 May, page 38), is clearly in a parallel universe - a universe that is time-warped backwards by about 20 years. The scary thing is, he is not alone. Parts of the industry are stuck there with him.
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CommentAn American ambush
The Americans call it sandbagging, we call it ambushing but either way it's an annoying and counterproductive way of trying to straighten out a problem
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Foster's City tower delayed after cladding firm folds
Foster and Partners' landmark 51 Lime Street tower in the City of London has been delayed by three months by the demise of its cladding contractor.
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An advantage over men
Elderly female residents and single women tell us they feel safer with women tradespeople working in their homes when we are refurbishing local authority estates with residents in occupation.
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Oxford steps up security against animal rights activists
Court ruling raises level of protection for all university contractors rather than just those working on research lab
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FeaturesJust the job: from academia to QSing
Mother of three Catherine Brooking tells Josh Brooks why she left academia for hands-on QSing
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FeaturesBeijing 832 days to go
If you believe the hype, you probably think Beijing is a lick of paint away from hosting the 2008 Olympics tomorrow. Graham Watts took a look for himself and found that not a single building has been finished - so maybe it's time all the London Olympic doomsters took a ...
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Density of London's new housing rises 50%
The density of new housing developments has risen by more than 50% in the past four years, breaking 100 dwellings per hectare in London for the first time, according to official figures.
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NewsBAA gives England flags the red card at Terminal 5
Workers furious as BAA brands World Cup flags hazardous and distracting, and bans them from Heathrow site
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Firms hold crisis talks to save Procure 21 framework
Four of the 11 firms on the scheme have threatened to quit unless government cuts £170,000 membership fee
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2020 shortsightedness
Without even getting into the detail of what LPS 2020, the new performance standard for modern methods of construction, will or won't deliver (5 May, page 52), one has to consider the basics:
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NewsPre-tax profit at contractor Mace rises 20% to £6.2m
Overall turnover in group also rises 48% to £271m but chairman complains that margins are ‘still very tight'