All Building articles in 2007 Issue 20 – Page 5
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News
OGC pushes for social housing body
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is in talks with leading social housing maintenance contractors over the possibility of forming a trade body to advise it on procurement in the sector.
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FeaturesWonders & blunders
With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …
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Features
Blaironomics
We’ve seen where the money went. Now Peter Rumble of the Building Costs Information Service explores how Labour’s stewardship of the economy affected construction tender prices and output
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Features
The Blair years
It’s always been said that construction does well under Labour, but when Tony Blair came to power in 1997 nobody would have dreamed just how well.
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FeaturesBlair on Blair
Margaret Ford, our guest editor and a woman who was close to the business end of New Labour’s policies, quizzed the prime minister on his record on the built environment
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CommentTwo cheers for Tony Blair
The back story of the Blair years is undoubtedly one of economic growth.
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Comment
A bit of a misunderstanding
This was an appeal by William David Lloyd and MGL (Rugby) Ltd against a decision that they were liable to pay Andrew Michael Sutcliffe a share of the profit made from a residential building development. Lloyd had, through one of his companies, Nimega Ltd, obtained two options to purchase the ...
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Comment
The bigger picture
With the continuing debate over the safety of timber frame, multistorey construction has failed to move forward. Individuals are beating the drum about the benefits of one material over another, but surely fire-safe building design and appropriate construction training is more important?
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FeaturesFour big ideas
David Blackman looks back on the multibillion-pound initiatives that defined the era
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NewsBrown throws weight behind planning reform
Gordon Brown has confirmed plans to set up an independent commission to decide on large infrastructure projects.
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WYG beefs up energy strategy
White Young Green’s energy division, which was launched this week, is investigating the possibility of producing energy from dead cows.
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NewsFairground attraction
Design watchdog Cabe has praised architect Kohn Pedersen Fox’s design for the Pinnacle, the 300m City of London skyscraper that is also known as the Helter Skelter and, formerly, the DIFA Tower. Cabe said: “This proposal has the potential to be a high-quality addition to the emerging cluster of ...
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Comment
For arts sake
I read Tarek Merlin’s column (4 May, pages 34-45) with interest. Public Art South West is the regional development agency for public art but we work across the UK and have international links.
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Apollo extends reach
Property services group Apollo has extended its regional coverage by opening an office in Peterborough.
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Contest hots up for Amec’s building arm
Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty are battling it out to buy Amec’s construction and PPP business.
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FeaturesWhere did it all go?
One of the things Blair’s tenure is certain to be remembered for is the surge of public spending that began in his third year in office. Here, Angela Monaghan, Mark Leftly and Sarah Richardson explain what it was spent on
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FeaturesAylesbury and after
When Blair made his first speech as prime minister on south London’s Aylesbury estate, it was an illustration of the immense task Labour faced in regenerating Britain’s inner cities, and a symbol of its determination to tackle it. Overleaf, we look at what it did. But first, Mark Leftly returned ...
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NewsRICS surveys the damage after wild party in Mayfair
Institution calls on the guilty to own up after annual dinner for under 35s gets out of hand