All Building articles in 2007 Issue 22 – Page 5
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FeaturesMini cost model: Budget hotels
The budget hotel sector is expanding, moving into new locations and offering its customers new facilities. Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon looks at their design, procurement and costs
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News
Buoyant BSS
Materials and equipment supplier BSS has reported a 28% rise in pre-tax profit to £47.3m for the year to 31 March 2007.
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News
Rogers at the British Museum
The British Museum in London has appointed Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to develop designs for a temporary exhibition space and for a world conservation centre.
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Bristols glass facelift
Builders must strip all the windows out of a £20m glass-faced office building because the panes are too thin.
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NewsSir Robert McAlpine hires BRE’s green expert
BRE director to lead new business specialising in designing low- and zero-carbon buildings
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Comment
Genesis: the birth of a regulation
Delegated legislation plays a huge part in the life of the construction industry and it makes sense to know how they come into being in parliament
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NewsThe Big Yin
Ian Simpson Architects has designed this £125m, six-star hotel in Glasgow. Progress Property Developments has applied for planning permission for the scheme, which will contain 158 bedrooms and 68 apartments.
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NewsHealth trust insists on ‘green’ bids
North Bristol NHS Trust has appointed a consultant to ensure the winning bid for its £374m PFI hospital is “green”, writes Mark Leftly.
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Bilfinger Berger buys UK firm
German contractor Bilfinger Berger has acquired O’Hare Engineering as part of a strategy to expand its UK business.
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FeaturesRoll over Beethoven
When it opened in 1951 the much-loved Royal Festival Hall was perfect in every way – save for the little matter of god-awful acoustics. Now, after a £91m, two-year refurbishment, the modernist masterpiece is rocking – and you can hear every note.
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NewsKate Barker speaks out on buy-to-let housing crisis
Housing and planning expert tells conference that investors are forcing out first-time buyers
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NewsFlash dance school: Canada's National Ballet School
Toronto HQ wins 2007 Institute Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture
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Balfour hit by King’s Cross walkout
Balfour Beatty is “monitoring” its relationship with a key labour supplier after the £115m King’s Cross project was hit by industrial action.
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Comment
Backing Brown’s green towns
I was interested to read the article “Brown’s eco new town will fail green test” (18 May, page 9). It is critical that initiatives such as these have the industry’s support. Brown’s eco towns will benefit companies and agencies working on sustainable alternatives to the construction process. By stimulating research ...
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Arup
As I’m meeting Arup for a pint, it’s fitting that the venue is a pub called the Engineer. I’m expecting a sombre place, inhabited by locals drinking at half-a-pint-an-hour beneath the fobbed belly of IK Brunel.
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NewsArt at the edge
The three public art works that will make up Landmark Wales’ bid to the Big Lottery Fund have been unveiled.
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Call for Olympic architects
The development partner for Stratford City, a consortium led by Lend Lease, and the Architecture Foundation have issued an international call for architects to design the Athletes village for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Taywood shareholders approve Wimpey merger
The proposed merger between housebuilders Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey moved a step closer this week after it was approved by Taywood’s shareholders.