All Building articles in 2006 issue 49 – Page 3
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News
City of Westminster sued for £188k
Regency Building Services takes council to court over unpaid invoices and retentions
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News
Infinity Homes vs Technical and General Guarantee
Housebuilders sues over £7m development in Southampton
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NewsHiggins & Co
WEB WATCH — While the mainstream media takes care of negative hype, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s home page puts London’s preparations for the Games in rather rosier light …
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NewsScaffolding with style
Not many building sites double up as clothing boutiques, but this one is a little bit special ...
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NewsLend Lease tipped to win Olympic village
Australian-led consortium looks set to beat Bouygues to develop the athletes village
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NewsODA finalises stadium design
ODA boss says design and budget will be finalised by the end of the month
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McBains Cooper eyes MDA as next takeover target
After failing to buy rival Currie & Brown, consultant turns its attention to troubled QS
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NewsCabe calls for rethink of King's Cross station design
Watchdog describes aspects of McAslan + Partners’ design for £250m scheme as ‘surreal’
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NewsWrit hits sale of British Nuclear Group
Legal battle over radioactive leak threatens to delay takeover at Sellafield
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NewsMarks Barfield begins work on Olympic spike
London Eye architect plans landmark viewing tower for 2012 Games
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Comment
The third way
Jeff Brown claims third-party rights don’t work (27 October, page 54), but his objections come down to not liking the particular third-party rights in the JCT contract.
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CommentWhat do we do now?
To make it as an architect these days, you have to be a networking ‘archipreneur’ with a degree in economics. What happened to just designing things?
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NewsLend Lease tipped to win Olympic village
A Lend Lease team looks set to pip Bouygues in the race to develop the Olympic village
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Comment‘It’s like partnering with teeth’
BRIEF ENCOUNTER — A new form of project mediation was launched this week to nip problems in the bud. We brought together its inventors and industry experts to discuss the pros and cons
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House price thermometer
The housing market refused to cool in November with housing prices up 1.4%, taking the average house price to £172,185 from £169,623 in October. The annual rate of growth was 9.6%.
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Comment
Who’s the real winner here?
I deliver training courses to clients, main contractors and specialists, so I hear a range of views on power relations in the industry (“Who calls the shots”, 24 November).
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NewsHenderson and Wolseley top M&A table
The £1bn bid by Henderson, an investment fund, for contractor John Laing is by far the biggest deal of the quarter so far but Wolseley, the building materials group, has been the most active firm in the acquisition market
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FeaturesHarmonic progression
RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together
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NewsGleaming spire of St Petersburg
Architect RMJM beat Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & De Meuron and Massimiliano Fuksas to win a £324m scheme to design a headquarters for gas giant Gazprom in St Petersburg, Russia.
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CommentPlaying their silly games
A court applied the law correctly when it quashed an adjudication decision that broke the rules. But perhaps it’s the rules, not the decision, that should be overturned