All Building articles in 2008 Issue 13 – Page 6
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NewsNo...gas cookers... power shower... open windows... thanks…
A report by the NHBC reveals that the zero-carbon revolution is leaving home buyers cold. And if nobody’s going to buy them, is anybody going to build them?
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Features‘Contractors are going to be right there in the spotlight with us’
As chairman of the ODA, John Armitt is charged with the unenviable task of delivering the Olympic project on time and (ahem …) on budget. And while he doesn’t shirk his own responsibility, he has a clear message for contractors: united we stand, divided we’re lumbered …
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T Clarke’s profit rise
Electrical engineer and contractor T Clarke has posted a 24.2% rise in pre-tax profit to £8.2m for the year ended 31 December 2007.
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NewsStanhope names contractors for three City schemes
Developer presses ahead with three office buildings despite turmoil in financial markets
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NewsThey are the champions
Nick Raynsford, Building columnist and former construction minister, was one of the winners at this year’s Building Awards, attended by more than 1,500 people at the Grosvenor House hotel on Tuesday.
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Strategic Forum gets to work on supply chain integration
The Strategic Forum has produced an action plan to promote supply-chain integration.
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NewsIn good hands: Rogers Stirk Harbour's Maggie's Centre
Architect in near completion of £2m cancer centre at London's Charing Cross hospital
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NewsThe guests we can’t do without
“This represents one of the biggest threats to the UK construction industry.”
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Caddicks report
Developer Caddick had a turnover of £49.3m in the year to 31 August 2007, up from £50.2m in 2006.
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Planners urge councils to buy locally generated power
Local councils need to put their money where their mouth is by buying locally generated power if they are to reduce emissions from buildings in their areas, according to planners.
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NewsWell fit: Foster + Partners’ Willis Building
StructureTone completes fit-out of architects sustainable timber building in the City
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BSS bullish
Distributor BSS said it is confident that revenue and earnings for the full year will be slightly ahead of market expectations, following a particularly strong quarter.
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Bovis and McAlpine’s no-poach deal
Two of the country’s largest contractors have a secret understanding not to poach staff from each other
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Comment
Collective blunders
My heart sinks each time a body rushes to tell us that it is setting up a committee to show how refurbishment or anything else should be done, like Kate Symons of BRE does in her column (28 March, page 41).
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CommentWonders & blunders
The decorative, anti-modernist efforts of Goodhart-Rendel excite Alan Powers but the patterned facade of the Blue Fin Building is a damp squib
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Birmingham shortlist
Foreign Office Architects, OMA, Foster + Partners, Hopkins, Mecanoo, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Wilkinson Eyre are shortlisted to design the £193m Birmingham library.
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Behind closed doors
I was peturbed to read Peter English’s article about a case that he said demonstrated that contractors need not always agree to give clients discounts (14 March, page 70).
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EC Harris steps in to manage Heron’s Barbican scheme
Consultant replaces Davis Langdon after developer reviews cost management strategy
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Housing Bill survives revolt by Labour backbenchers
A major backbench revolt by Labour MPs nearly succeeded in halting the progress of the Housing Bill to the Lords this week.
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CommentHansom BAA, humbug!
Is there really anything more to be said about last week’s fiasco at Heathrow’s T5? You bet there is. But it’s not all bad news and schadenfreude: we put on some light entertainment for you, too