All Building articles in 2007 Issue 39 – Page 4
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Comment
The shame game
Your health and safety blunders are all well and good, but just publishing them will not improve safety in the construction industry.
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CommentIn the frame
I’m sorry to hear about the three contractors featured in your article “The men who got left behind” (14 September, page 26) who say they have lost business as a result of framework agreements, but our research has found that it needn’t be this way.
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FeaturesThe fit-out philosophers
8build was formed by senior managers at ISG who spent years observing the follies and failings of the traditional industry – and set out to solve them with their own company. Katie Puckett finds out more about their thinking
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FeaturesIsis neutron facility
Thomas Lane goes to south Oxfordshire to find out why you need very big tweezers to pick up very small objects …
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FeaturesWhen will they ever learn?
The government is trying to renew 3,500 schools in 15 years using teams of confused officials, increasingly resentful contractors and a system that combines surreal bureaucracy with huge wastes in time and money. Eleanor Goodman and Katie Puckett explain why Building Schools for the Future continues to underachieve
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News
RICS launches new eTendering service
RICS says service will offer cost reductions for buyers and suppliers
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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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Wolseley posts first drop in profit for a decade
Wolseley became the latest victim of the US housing recession this week as it posted its first profit fall in 10 years.
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New funding date for Shard
The developer of the Shard is aiming to announce confirmation of funding for the project by the end of the first week of October, Building understands.
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CommentA house up a well-known creek
If your home played host to the contents of your neighbours’ toilets 17 times in eight years, you might expect the law to offer you some redress. Remarkably, as one London householder found out, it does nothing of the sort
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NewsDebt-ridden Erinaceous in urgent talks to raise credit
Property consultant postpones interim results amid rumours of management shake-up
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FeaturesHe’s cracked it
Paul Andreu’s Beijing theatre has been dubbed the Egg. But how do you get into it? And what do you see when you do?
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelope
The cost of a building’s envelope has increased 10% over the past 12 months, and a similar rate is forecast for the next two years. Gardiner & Theobald reports on the costs and lead times of curtain walling, roofing and stone construction and restoration
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Correction
The worker injured on a Mace site last week was a subcontractor, not an employee, of the company (21 September, page 13) and was injured, not killed, as captioned.
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Tube Lines set to win Metronet contracts
The odds on Tube Lines snapping up Metronet’s maintenance contracts shortened dramatically this week after the government’s arbiter said the collapsed group was theoretically entitled to claim up to £1.1bn from London Underground.
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NewsRLF wins QS contract for Crowne Plaza Hotel scheme
Centre Island appoints consultant for £14m refurbishment project in Birmingham
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NewsTeam colours
Foster + Partners has revealed these designs for the £175m redevelopment of the Nou Camp stadium in Spain, home to Barcelona football club, which will increase its capacity from 98,000 to 106,000.