All Building articles in 2006 issue 45 – Page 3
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News
East Midland Contracting sues for £1.1m
An adjudictator's decision goes to the High Court for enforcement
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Comment
Silent voices
Regarding your news article on Polish workers (27 October, page 14), I seem to come across many articles concerning the welfare of Eastern European labourers and what they should and shouldn’t have or do.
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NewsSporting Salford
Arup Sport has designed this £35m 22,000-seat stadium, part of a £130m development for Salford in Greater Manchester.
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CommentRealpolitik
Gus Alexander The construction industry, like the arms industry, is more concerned with doing the work than with what the work does. So how are we going to persuade it to stop following orders and think?
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NewsReady for the off
Ascot was hailed as a triumph when the revamp was completed in time for Royal Ascot this year, but since then it has been criticised by punters who say they cannot see the track properly from the grandstand.
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CommentRead the signs
Thanks for the interesting article about waste management (27 October, page 46).
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FeaturesStarting out
For managers on site, taking responsibility for health and safety can be a matter of life and death. And for graduates in their early twenties, that responsibility can weigh very heavily indeed.
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CommentOpen sesame
WEB WATCH — Desperate for up-to-the-minute construction news and job alerts? Then look no further – access to Building magazine’s website is completely free for the next four weeks.
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FeaturesThrough the keyhole
The lengths that modern fit-out specialists go to capture the essence of their client is inspiring, inventive and occasionally surreal. So, in inimitable Loyd Grossman fashion, we go behind the bricks and mortar to ask: who would work in an office like this?
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Comment
Man from the JCT
Jeff Brown’s article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.
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Comment
Rogers and the Olympic icon
Isn’t the pessimistic tone of Building’s review of progress on the Olympic stadium a little premature (27 October, page 26)?
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News
Top housing plan
HOUSING STATS — This month the SE England Development Agency is the biggest client and work is well up in the South-east
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NewsHappy Hackney
Lord Rogers and Ken Livingstone are to open the first of London’s 100 Public Spaces today in Hackney, east London.
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News
Moayedi launches green invention
Paris Moayedi’s business comeback is set to take another step forward when the former Jarvis man launches a renewable energy system at the end of this month.
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NewsGovernment missing housing, school and hospital targets
Construction Products Association review shows poor performance on repair and refurbishment
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NewsGoing places
Places for People, the UK’s biggest housing association, built 1,250 homes last year, according to its 2006 annual report.
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CommentIt’s going to be a long, long time
STATE YOUR CASE — The latest idea for disposing of nuclear waste is to offer councils financial incentives to bury it in their backyard. But, says Nigel Robson, the progress is measured in decades
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NewsHold the front page
Clenston Mews in Marylebone, central London, was swarming with paparazzi when Antony Hoodless took this photo. The paps weren’t there to document this unique technique for painting a window frame, though. They wanted a portrait of Madonna and child – the former lives nearby and the latter had just arrived ...