All Building articles in 2008 Issue 11 – Page 6
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The South Bank goes green
The London Development Agency has set up a project to help buildings on London’s South Bank reduce their carbon footprints.
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HVCA backs single M&E body
The Heating and Ventilating Contractors Association has given its full support to a single M&E body.
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CommentBack to earth
With the glamour of Cannes but a distant memory, we return to humbler distractions, such as staring blankly at Facebook, grumbling about students, and nursing our sore saddles
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FeaturesWhat is it with architects’ websites?
You’re in a hurry. All you need is the phone number of a business contact. So you go for the quickest, easiest source – the web. Only, when you arrive at the company’s homepage, instead of instant information, an egg timer symbol appears with the words “Loading … 20% … ...
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NewsOnly two architects have won Olympic village work
Glenn Howells and Patel Taylor are commissioned from August’s framework of 47
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Bradford to build Alsop’s pool
Bradford's regeneration agency is to push ahead with plans to create a “mirror pool” at the centre of the city, despite losing a bid for £20m in lottery funding to build it last autumn.
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CommentAll your regs in one basket
Hallelujah. The government is finally taming the Building Regulations.
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NewsStudent hall by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
This pavilion, designed by graduate students Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, has been erected at the Architectural Association in central London
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Reinwood vs Brown: You again?
The highest court in the land has just given its second decision on the Construction Act. Never mind the parties, it’s two wins out of two for the JCT…
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Ken again?
It’s debatable whether the London Plan was anything other than a pointless waste of taxpayers’ money, as noted in the article “Should we vote for Ken again?” (7 March, page 3).
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NewsHousing gloom after US bank crashes
Housebuilders prepare for tough market conditions as lenders tighten mortgage criteria
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An unfair adjudication: Humes Building Contractors Ltd vs Charlotte Homes (Surrey) Ltd
Humes Building Contractors Ltd sought to enforce by way of summary judgment an adjudicator’s decision for £158,486.26 plus VAT. The building contract was based upon a JCT Intermediate Form of Building Contract with Contractors Design 2005 Edition. Relations between the parties deteriorated and the defendant purported to terminate the contract ...
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Forum announces safety action
The Strategic Forum’s Health and Safety Group has set out measures to take forward the Framework for Action initiated by Peter Hain.
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Crossrail could rejuvenate project bank accounts
Talks under way to use central payment system rejected by Olympic Delivery Authority
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Vinci UK announces 5% margins – but not for long
Vinci UK has said profit margins will fall in 2009 as a result of the credit crunch.
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Wembley cases to drag on into 2009
The multimillion-pound legal rows that have dogged Wembley stadium will still be rumbling on in 2009, 10 years after Lord Foster’s design was first unveiled, experts have predicted.
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Cost update: March 2008
Construction costs are rising twice as fast as consumer prices on the back of rising oil and import prices, but the annual rate of growth is slowing, reports Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in February 2008
This month’s data shows that sales and registrations are substantially down on this time last year
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Laing lands £200m school deal
Laing O’Rourke is understood to have won the £200m Newham Building Schools for the Future scheme, beating off Skanska.
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NewsPidgley optimistic despite 20% sales drop
Tony Pidgley, the chief executive of Berkeley Group, says his firm is performing better than he feared, despite a 20% slump in sales in the four months to 31 January 2008.