All Building articles in 2007 Issue 31 – Page 4
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Comment
Keep shouting and we’ll keep failing
The pig-headed behaviour of some trade associations is wasting a priceless opportunity to reform the Construction Act to everyone’s advantage
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News
Exodus of senior staff from SMC in the wake of review
Eleven senior members of staff and directors have left architect SMC after a strategic review aimed at turning the business around.
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News
Olympic organiser to restructure as planning phase ends
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is in the process of restructuring. A source close to the ODA said it was “tweaking roles and responsibilities” and that the changes are expected to be finalised in two months.
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News
Olympic organiser to restructure as planning phase ends
Partner CLM expected to restructure in line with the ODA
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Comment
An exemplary disaster
Fail to renew your public liability insurance at your peril, as this dreadful tale of a family-run electrical firm, a little old lady’s bungalow and some (possibly) poorly rigged festoon cabling proves
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Comment
The devil in the detail
Heard the one about the contractor/consultant/client laid low by a few innocent-sounding sentences in their contract? In the first of a series, Helen Garthwaite looks at a cap on liability
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News
Foster misses out on Dead Sea shortlist
Foster + Partners has not been included on the shortlist to work on plans for a canal between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea in the Middle East.
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News
“Do you want to be noughts or crosses?”
Not a high-risk version of the pen and paper game but two daring builders in Wroclaw, Poland.
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News
Strategic Forum to set out ‘golden rules’ to reduce fatalities from tower cranes
In a double victory for Building’s Safer Skyline campaign senior ministers have backed the movement, while the Strategic Forum is to set out standards for the safe use of cranes on site.
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News
Strategic Forum to set out ‘golden rules’ to reduce fatalities from tower cranes
Peter Hain and Stephen Timms single out Building's Safer Skyline campaign for praise
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Features
Cost model: Further education
England’s tired further education colleges need about £5bn of work to bring them up to date. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon explores the design, procurement and cost issues
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News
Correction
Last week we incorrectly stated that Michael Sullivan, an RICS official, was a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall.
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News
International standard to stamp out conflicting lifecycle costs
An international standard that will bring consistency to lifecycle costing for buildings is to be issued in the next few months.
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News
College contract
Contractor Bardsley Construction, from Manchester, has won a £10m project to build a sixth form college in Blackpool.
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News
National Construction College moves step closer to reprieve
The National Construction College (NCC) in Bircham Newton, Norfolk, may have been handed a lifeline after the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) reacted positively to proposals that would allow specialist training to remain at the centre.
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News
King to chair talks on energy-efficiency mortgages
Lenders and energy firms to discuss ‘realistic ways’ of greening housing stock
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Castleoak's deals
Castleoak, the Cardiff-based care home specialist, has won two contracts totalling £10m, one in Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire, and one in Thame, Oxfordshire.