All Building articles in 2006 issue 47 – Page 4
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CommentReindeer with everything
It’s postcards from the edge this week, as our globetrotting architect flits from the antlers of Helsinki to the Buddhas of Bangkok
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CommentThe eternal quest for perfect reception
Simon Perry writes: “While on holiday in Belgium, the home of the European parliament, which hands down the vast quantities of health and safety regulations, I happened to notice this unique approach. I presume they were seeing how many regulations they could break!”
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FeaturesDream house Down Under
When Paul and Jaki Halliday decided to leave London’s traffic-clogged rat’s maze for the hills of New South Wales, they celebrated by commissioning their ideal home. Martin Spring explains how their compatriot, Alan Higgs, designed it
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NewsIkea unveils first housing designs for the UK
Furniture company’s prefabricated apartments to be piloted at a scheme in northern England
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CommentDear landlord
Charles McDonald, the real estate manager at the Carbon Trust, is right to target landlords in the battle to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings (3 November). Landlord developers are escaping accountability. As a design-and-build contractor, we employ good architectural practices, good building services consultants, and front-line M&E subcontractors ...
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NewsTop Wimbledon courts will be rebuilt for Olympics
All-England Club plans makeover for No 2 and No 3 courts as it prepares for Olympics
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A little less conversation
I think the proposal from WWF, the green lobby group, to make zero-carbon development a condition of public funding is spot on (10 November, page 15). The government keeps stating that Britain is at the forefront of reducing global warming, but in reality we are still only talking about it. ...
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Concentrating their minds
Tony Bingham claims that suing an expert witness is a ‘rock solid no-go’, but if your expert is negligent, shouldn’t they suffer the consequences?
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Metronet chairman Keith Clarke ‘to be replaced’
Tube infrastructure consortium Metronet said that Keith Clarke, the chief executive of Atkins, would be replaced as its chairman “at some point in the future”.
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FeaturesWho calls the shots?
Main contractors and specialists are engaged in a struggle to seize power in the construction industry. Who will come out on top? Katie Puckett reports from ringside
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CommentPart C (for cats)
Further to your recent campaign concerning the Building Regulations I recently came across this on one of our sites.
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NewsPublic to get chance to buy shares in new-build prisons
Under a new Home Office scheme, prisons could be funded by Real Estate Investment Trusts
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Bumpy ride for house prices
Hometrack has predicted that a low volume of housing transactions will fuel volatility in the market next year.
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Bricks and blunders
I regularly drive past Grosvenor Waterside, the “best private housing development” in this year’s brick awards. Are you joking? Smart contemporary lines? It looks identical to the “best commercial building” shown next to it.
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Taywood leaves landmark Birmingham project
Contractor Taylor Woodrow has left the £100m mixed-use Cube development in Birmingham.
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NewsHow high will the Olympic bill go?
As estimates of the cost of the 2012 Games in London soar past £12bn neither the minister in charge nor the Olympic delivery committee appears to have any clear answers on finances
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CommentBeyond Idaho
WEB WATCH — Jack Lemley thought he was having a quiet chat with a local journalist for the edification of his fellow Idahoans. Unfortunately for Jack, there’s no such thing as local journalism any more …
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CommentThreatening behaviour
Expert witnesses are immune from being sued for anything said or done in legal proceedings. One judge wanted to extend this principle, but the Court of Appeal disagreed