All Building articles in 2008 Issue 1 – Page 5
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NewsBAA to axe 200 staff from its projects division
Cost-saving measure signals shift away from construction management method used on T5
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NewsHmm, perhaps not an ideal solution…
Thanks to Tim Castle for our latest exposé of working practices on improvised building sites.
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NewsCostain in talks to join first nuclear reactor alliance
Firms gear up for work as government confirms commitment to more nuclear plants
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NewsConstruction industry is ‘on brink of recession’, says report
Construction Products Association and Experian downgrade growth in output this year to 1.1%
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Comment
Terrorism and you
The prime minister recently suggested a need for architects to help “design out” terrorist opportunities.
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CommentSuspended sentences
Chris Addison If you held a Mancunian upside down until he thought of something nice to say about Liverpool, what might he come up with? Well, here’s one we dangled earlier
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CommentSay you’ll be there
At Candy & Candy’s new luxury development in Chelsea, at Heathrow’s Terminal 6, at the White House with America’s wannabe president-cum-architect or in Alderley Edge where eerie events are afoot …
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Watkin profit rises
Developer and contractor Watkin Jones has made a pre-tax profit of £13m from £110m turnover in the year to 30 September 2007.
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FeaturesWhat does it take to be a player?
For anyone doing business in Liverpool’s development market, the answer is an ability to talk football for the full 90 minutes. And, as with the beautiful game, the property scene is all about getting one over on Manchester. Katie Puckett finds out if the Scousers have any hope of success
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Comment
The plane truth
Your reader’s concern about the pitfalls of constructing a school around two 120-year-old plane trees (23 November, page 38) mirrors those of the client and design team at the outset of the project four years ago, but a great amount of consideration went into ensuring the continuing health of the ...
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FeaturesPhil Redmond
He’s known by many as the father of the modern soap opera. Others see him as the man who’ll deliver Liverpool’s year in the sun. But for some he’ll always be the QS who tackled Orton village hall …
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Row over supervisor safety training
Specialists groups have accused major contractors of issuing “edicts from on high” after the Major Contractors Group announced plans to introduce a compulsory qualification for its subcontractors without consulting them.
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Network Rail wage row
A row between Network Rail and engineering agencies over wages may have contributed to delays to the Christmas rail upgrade programme.
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NewsMore Manchester
A regeneration scheme, claimed to be Manchester’s largest ever, has got the green light.
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CommentReefer madness
Although I couldn’t possibly disagree with the main thrust of Jules Harbage’s legal article (7 December, page 58), I am dismayed that yet another opportunity has been missed for addressing the growing issue of drug abuse.
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Comment
Who’s looking out for whom?
Christopher Hill A client should be able to rubber-stamp a consultant’s work without checking it, but if the consultant has relied on inaccurate information from the client they may be left in an invidious position
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Longbridge revamp
Birmingham council has unveiled plans for the regeneration of the former Rover car plant at Longbridge.
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FeaturesLiverpool One on-site: Welcome to paradise
How do you co-ordinate a £1bn budget, 40 buildings, 22 architects and 90 consultants to deliver the most ambitious regeneration scheme Liverpool has ever seen? Thomas Lane went to ask the man who has to do it
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South-east housing
Nine councils are to get £80m between them to improve the worst private housing in the South-east.