All Building articles in 2007 Issue 34 – Page 2
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NewsStadium overload
With all hands tied up with the 2012 Olympics, are football clubs going to find it hard hiring specialist contractors, asks Turner & Townsend cost manager Sarah Joyce
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Kier grabs No 1 spot in July with £375m of work
Business barometer — Public projects take contractor to the top but Balfour retains annual lead
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NewsHousing starts fall by 8%
Government’s 3 million homes target suffers blow as starts look set to fall behind completions
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Whitbybird
Following Whitbybird’s merger with Danish company Ramboll (10 August, page 12), the combined company will have a turnover of over £410m, not £140m as we stated.
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NewsTop of the world
Corus Kalzip has installed an off-site roofing system on Mount Snowdon’s £8.3m visitor centre at the very top of the 1,085m peak in north Wales.
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FeaturesUncharted territory
The UK Green Building Council wants to create a road map towards a sustainable environment. Paul King, its chief executive and a man of impeccable green credentials, will be in the driving seat – or should that be bike saddle?
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CommentYou do the sums
Hands up if this sounds like a silly argument to you: spend millions of pounds to cut x tonnes of carbon or spend a fraction of that to save the same x tonnes of carbon?
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Wembley scheme
Quintain has won permission for a £230m, five-storey building near Wembley Arena in north London.
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Riddle me this
If you see something going wrong on a building site, do you have a legal duty to tell someone? This is a simple question with no simple answer, says Rupert Choat. But here’s the latest thinking …
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CommentA place in the sun
This week we stroll along the balmy streets of Barcelona while Jack Pringle meets his adoring public in Paris – both of which sound preferable to watching a 1-1 draw in Carlisle …
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NewsThe new Vic
Developer Land Securities has applied for planning permission for this £2bn scheme north of London’s Victoria station.
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CommentThank you, m’lud
Judge Coulson ruled recently that a court can pause a case and direct the parties to adjudicate their differences away. Which, apart from anything else, is a real vote of confidence in adjudication …
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MingleMinded musings
They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, but I can’t help thinking your article, The undercover networker (3 August, page 40), may have given a negative impression.
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CommentIn praise of mess
Our cities and townscapes have to reflect the messy unpredictability of those who live in them. Attempts to impose order by micro-managing every masterplan will end in lifeless homogeneity – which is the enemy of beauty
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CommentLimited – within limits
Directors often think that they are immune from liability for costs incurred by their companies. Listen and learn. The entrepreneur here finished up with a massive legal bill, not to mention a wigging from the judge
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Features‘People shouldn’t be scared of doing what they like at university’
Don’t have a BSc in construction? Don’t worry. Roma Agrawal’s first degree is in physics, but that hasn’t stopped her becoming one of the main engineers on a £4m project at the tender age of 23. She tells Jo Donnelly how it happened
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CommentA lesson in realism
Generating 60% of our schools’ energy from on-site renewable sources may sound like a great idea, but the figures don’t add up. Bill Watts takes today’s maths class
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An irresistible rise
The unprecedented run of industry growth is unlikely to come to an end any time soon, with orders high and employment prospects healthy. Experian Business Strategies reports