All Building articles in 2006 issue 42 – Page 4
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NewsStirling winner Rogers to rename firm
Stirling prize-winning architect Lord Rogers has asked two of his protégés to add their names to the title of his practice
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Miller Group eyes Linden as it plans expansion in South
Scottish group signs confidentiality agreement preliminary to bid for £300m housebuilder
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CommentDown the tube
Debika Ray examines the big-bucks world of the video blog, and finds out what architecture students really get up to …
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Don’t rely on the sun
I read with interest your article “What’s new under the sun” (6 October, page 22) having carried out a similar limited pilot survey last winter for Circle Anglia Housing Association, in which we compared four houses fitted with panels and four of similar house types without panels, including lifestyle adjustments. ...
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CommentDongtan-on-Thames
THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE — Shanghai’s eco-city is creating a precedent that developments like the Thames Gateway ignore at their peril
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NewsRogers ignites row over Olympic stadium design
ODA faces first serious setbacks as Lord Rogers queries designs and Jack Lemley quits
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Davis Langdon to improve specification documents
RIBA Enterprises and consultant Davis Langdon Schumann Smith (DLSS) have announced a collaborative venture to push the National Building Specification (NBS) into international markets and improve it in the UK.
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelopes
Building envelopes account for up to £25bn a year in construction costs. In our latest specialist update, our expert team at Gardiner & Theobald examines the trends and costs in curtain walling, roofing and stone construction
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The specialists are coming
Thank you for publishing my email (6 October, page 38). I must however express my disappointment that key elements were edited out:
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CommentSafety check
EU WATCH — The European Construction Safety Forum recently staged a conference to assess policies that aim to improve the construction sector’s health and safety record.
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Features‘The more the OGC is decimated, the more celebration there will be’
The Office of Government Commerce spent the first six months of this year undergoing a review that questioned its very existence. Whether it lives or dies is unknown. What is certain is that it will never be the same again.
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HSE calls for safety checks on tower cranes
The Health and Safety Executive has issued a safety alert on the use of tower cranes in the wake of last month’s collapse on a site in Battersea, south-west London.
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FeaturesBuilding buys the popcorn
Yes, we’re branching out. Inspired by the success of ‘Building buys a pint’, we took a group from consultant WSP to see Al Gore’s eco-documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lydia Stockdale forked out for the Butterkist …
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CommentTarred with the same brush
A bitumen cartel got stung by the European Commission when it was caught flouting competition laws. But it was the parent companies that got their knuckles rapped hardest
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Broom with a view
Thanks to Tim Gough of Austin Winkley & Associates for this picture, and for also sending the contractor’s health and safety policy, which includes the line, “All employees are encouraged to contribute actively towards a work environment which is free of accidents and ill health”. Quite.