All Building articles in 2007 Issue 18 – Page 2
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NewsWacky racers ride again
What looks like an old army truck disguised as scaffolding forms a makeshift moving platform in the Czech Republic
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NewsSelina Mason leaves Cabe for Olympic design job
Mason will work alongside Jerome Frost as the deputy head of design at the Olympic Delivery Authority
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NewsAone+ wins £158m highways agency contract
Costain, Halcrow and Colas JV will manage motorways for five years
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NewsBig thinkers point to zero-carbon future
Think 07 demostrated how seriously industry is facing up to its zero-carbon challenge
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NewsThe four key messages from Think
Nuclear power, off-setting, road pricing and sustainability costs were all high on speakers' agenda at Think 07
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Barratt and Taylor Woodrow win fight for urban village
Consortium wins permission to build 1,200 homes in Cheshire after a 10-year battle
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NewsThink summit issues call to arms on global warming
Al Gore and Prince Charles call for national mobilisation as John Prescott reveals that fiscal incentives will be offered to green existing buildings
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Investors cautious after Spanish housing crash
BAA owner Ferrovial is among contractors that could suffer knock-on effects from market fall
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NewsTaywood takes £41.6m hit in Florida
Taylor Woodrow vulnerable to Persimmon takeover following poor sales in Florida and Californian high-rise operations
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NewsCapacity fears grow as industry boom continues
Soaring prices and output exacerbate ODA’s struggles to woo contractors
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NewsFormer finance boss takes Bovis to tribunal over bonus
Contractor’s personnel problems continue as date for hearing is set in Andrew Silverbeck case
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CommentThe youth of today
While the industry’s old hands said adieu to Paul Morrell and discussed sustainable construction, the youngsters were engaged in a drunken debauch at the Marriott. Who said QSs don’t know how to party?
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Comment
A timely reminder
Cheltenham Ladies’ College took exception to an architect and, relying on the contract, began proceedings. It lost: the reasons why, says Corinne McCarthy, should be a warning to others
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Sweett in Newcastle
Cyril Sweett’s expansion continues with the opening of a regional office in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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CommentMade to measure
In the old days, a claim for disruption was a kind of generalised moan about things getting fouled up. These days, there are all kinds of ways of putting a figure on the costs. Here’s how it works
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FeaturesLost in space
Surface Architects’ conversion of Birkbeck College’s film and media research centre is a complex sculpture that breaks down distinctions between walls, floors and ceilings, opening it up to all manner of interpretations. Martin Spring makes one or two
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Lords ruling on ‘withholding’ may put subcontractors at risk
Subcontractors face a greater risk of withheld payments in the wake of a House of Lords case that could overrule a key section of the Construction Act.
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Comment
Watching our waste line
Aghast at the amount of waste generated within our industry and at our reluctance to do much about it, the government wants to make site waste management compulsory. But is it going after the right guys?
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NewsJerusalem-on-Thame
Metropolitan Housing Trust has won planning permission for a scheme that will provide accommodation for north London’s Orthodox Jewish community.
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Comment
Home Rule
The parties entered into a JCT With Contractor’s Design contract for the construction of 114 residential apartments in Manchester. This case concerns the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. During the adjudication, Crosby Homes raised three jurisdictional challenges:1 There was no jurisdiction under the “side agreements”2 ...