All Building articles in 2007 Issue 39 – Page 3
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NewsHoare Lea appoints Bateson new partner
Consulting engineer promotes head of sustainable group Ashley Bateson, who is working on the energy strategy for the new East Terminal at Heathrow
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New housing to fund energy improvements to old stock
Housing minister to use Thames Gateway profit to make existing housing more efficient
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NewsErinaceous management shaken by six month pre-tax losses
CEO, finance director's resignations are announced after delayed publication of interim results
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NewsGreen light for £38m city academy
Kensington and Chelsea council grant planning permission for London’s most expensive school
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NewsWork starts on UK's first carbon negative project
The greenhouse project will regenerate Beeston in Leeds as well as providing sustainable features such as wind turbines, solar thermal and super insultation
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NewsHousebuilders ‘will hit zero carbon target’, says HBF
Federation boss Baseley denies claim that private sector is not working to 2016 deadline
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Lend Lease axed from £190m job
Developer Lend Lease has been removed from a £190m regeneration project in Eastbourne amid fears its appointment could fall foul of competition law
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Only 12 BSF schools out of 100 to complete by March
Delays and lack of skills in local authorities beset £45bn school building programme
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NewsEco-town winners to be announced by March
Sustainability consultants claim six-month timetable for choosing winning bidders for Gordon Brown’s 10 new towns is unrealistic
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Twister in the tale
Councils in the Midlands and the South are assessing damage to property after gale-force winds and tornadoes swept through the region on Monday.
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CommentRudi’s on the wrong track
Rudi Klein has been complaining about Network Rail’s new contracts. But Ann Minogue, who helped document the client’s procurement strategy, thinks he has missed the point
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CommentMysterious ways
This week, we reveal the Shard developer’s early attempts to gain help from a higher power, Barratt seeks the assistance of a brick disguised as a baby, and a minister flounders at the Fabian Society
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CommentMaterial world
Is furniture art? What difference does it make if a bench is made of fibreglass or marble? What goes on in a Bangkok luxury hotel? All the answers are here
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Land Sec restructure
Sources close to Land Securities said it was unlikely to announce the results of a review until November.
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Inspace’s profit soars
Housing and corporate services provider Inspace has posted a 47% jump in half-year pre-tax profit to £5.4m.
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CommentToilet humour
The Bog Brush and the Urinal are just two of the suggested nicknames for buildings featured on our website. Phil Clark reports on the high-brow chatter online …
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FeaturesHow hard can it be?
We can all recognise great leaders, but it’s a bit trickier working out what makes them special. PLACE, a new training programme, set out to discover whether the leadership X-factor existed in construction and found that four names kept cropping up. Lucy Handley spoke to each of them
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NewsGetting to the point
The tallest of five buildings in Land Securities’ £220m New Street Square development in the City of London achieved practical completion last week.