All Building articles in 2007 issue 01 – Page 4
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Comment
End this travesty
In these topsy-turvey times subbies think they’re designers, QSs act like lawyers and architects let builders specify. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we stuck to our job descriptions in 2007?
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Green house effect
Ruth Kelly explains how she plans to meet the environmental challenge by awarding stars to sustainable homes
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Don’t fiddle
Your article regarding the implications of the Colindale fire (1 December) rightly stresses this is no time for fiddling.
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Features
Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …
Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom
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Devilish details
The zero carbon initiative proposed by Gordon Brown (8 December, page 10) looks impressive, with “every new home to be zero carbon by 2010”. His statement is backed up by the fiscal incentive of zero carbon homes being exempt from stamp duty. This is a bold statement, however like many ...
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News
Planning rejection puts national college at risk
The future of the National Construction College has been thrown into doubt after it was refused permission to develop part of its land to raise funds.
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Thousands fail to hit MCG’s skills card deadline
The Major Contractors Group (MCG) may have failed to meet its target of ensuring that all workers on its members’ site have CSCS cards by 1 January.
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RICS frustrated by failure of visa campaign
RICS launches a fresh campaign against visa restrictions imposed on QSs coming to the UK from outside the EU
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Plan for sliding scale Cambridge roof tax
Cambridgeshire Horizons unveils proposals for a three-tier planning tariff to replace section 106
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More cladding gloom as Pluswall goes bust
Cladding specialist goes into voluntary liquidation following financial problems
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Features
‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.
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Comment
Danger is my bread, death my butter
Thanks to Bob Wright from Bignell & Associates for this one.
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News
Heart unit opens three months late at Bovis’ Manchester hospital
A key facility at a £380m joint hospitals PFI in Manchester, which is being built by Bovis Lend Lease, opened three months late in December.
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Housing bosses plan zero-carbon timetable
Construction Products Association and HBF team up to unveil a 120-month timetable to achieve carbon emission-free homes
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Wallwork named Gleeson boss
Paul Wallwork has been confirmed as chief executive of Gleeson after steering the contractor through a restructure and reducing its debt 85%.
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Picking over the bones
A contractor paid a subcontractor £70,000 for light fittings. This should have been passed to the supplier, but the subbie went bust. So can the supplier get the contractor to pay twice?
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News
Rebuff for Leeds council over PFI regeneration bid
The government has frozen a PFI scheme to regenerate a Leeds suburbs where three of the 7 July suicide bombers lived.
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Foster consortium set to bid for Olympic media centre
Architect plans alliance with Balfour Beatty as it prepares to go down design-and-build route