All Building articles in 2007 Issue 06 – Page 4
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Features
What the sea brought in
Heatherwick Studio wanted its design for a beach cafe to look like something washed up on the shore. Beachcombers – plus the odd passing dog – will be handsomely rewarded.
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News
Broadway Malyan to design rest of Greenwich village
Architect has been picked to tackle 1,650 homes in exemplar millennium community
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News
Buschow’s Hemel breakthrough
After a long battle, Buschow Henley has succeeded in securing planning permission for 56 affordable and shared ownership flats in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
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News
Muck, brass and building
COMPANY FOCUS Venerable family contractor Seddon is embracing recycling and regeneration
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News
Interserve sacks four bosses
Interserve has sacked four executives who were involved in last year’s discovery of a £25m black hole in its industrial services division.
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News
Former Morrison boss to lead Skanska strategic review
Skanska UK has appointed an executive vice president to its board to lead a strategic review of the business.
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News
Blowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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News
Bennetts into Europe
Bennetts Associates has landed its first win in an architectural competition outside the UK.
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Comment
Barratt’s big deal is just the start
The increasingly dramatic world of housebuilding took a spectacular plot twist this week.
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News
What the Barratt deal means for the sector
Barratt’s purchase of Wilson Bowden enables it to regain the crown of Britain’s biggest housebuilder, which it lost last year to Persimmon.
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NG Bailey hunts YouTube pranksters
M&E contractor NG Bailey has launched an investigation to identify workers who were captured on video footage setting each other alight.
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Comment
Distinctly average
Below par performances this week from the officials at the TCC and a Scottish recruitment consultant. At least Mace’s attempts to join the celebrity party circuit are more than OK...
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News
Wilson James brings in army chief to boost firepower
Site services firm enlists former combat support head and Axima boss to lead new divisions
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News
Olympic stadium scaled back amid fears over cost
Design will include only one covered stand and remain athletics venue as masterplan unveiled
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News
Alfred McAlpine buys environmental consultant Enviros
Contractor and support services company Alfred McAlpine has bought UK environmental consultant Enviros Group for £30m.
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Features
Procurement: Employer’s agents
Many cost consultants and project managers have extended their involvement on projects by acting as the employer’s agent – a job that introduces a wide range of responsibilities. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the role
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News
Capita offices evacuated after letter bomb
Capita Group’s head office was evacuated on Monday after a woman was injured by a letter bomb.
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Balfour Beatty plans more US acquisitions
Ian Tyler, chief executive of Balfour Beatty, has said the company will look to acquire more US firms after buying Texas-based Centex Construction.
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Procurement change sinks Blair’s academy ambitions
Merging of frameworks likely to scupper prime minister’s plan to build 400 academies by 2010