All Building articles in 2008 Issue 15 – Page 5
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Thermostatic shower panels
Douglas Delabie has launched a new premix thermostatic shower panel.
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NewsNothing up our sleeves …
The fallout from Northern Rock has led to fear and mistrust in the housing market. So Barratt has decided to establish a more transparent relationship between itself and lenders, says Mark Clare
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Comment
The wrong tool for the job
You wouldn’t go to a chiropractor to have your teeth checked, so why go anywhere other than the TCC for a building dispute?
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CommentSplendid isolation
Mediation is an excellent alternative to court proceedings, but these days the two forms of dispute resolution are getting mixed up. Mediation should be left to its own devices
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Housing woes
78.5% surveyors reported a fall in house prices last month, according to the RICS housing market survey for March.
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NewsOslo opera house: Opera on ice
Oslo’s new opera house, opened by King Harald of Norway last Saturday, was designed by the country’s coolest avant garde architect, Snøhetta. But it’s still the hottest building in town …
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FeaturesThe tracker: Trouble on the horizon
The industry is still going strong, but a drop in tender enquiries suggests that activity may slow in the future. Experian Business Strategies reports
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Getting won over
After a bad experience with collaboration software, Hammerson staff were disinclined to try again. But a mixture of stick, administered by the managers, and carrot, provided by the software itself, has finally convinced them. Stephen Kennett reports
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CommentG is for guarantee, H is for hazardous
The A to Z of construction law - Our instant course in legal concepts continues by asking when is a guarantee not a guarantee and how should hazardous materials be handled in contracts?
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NewsLaing plots foreign growth
John Laing is to grow its overseas business to half of its portfolio within the next four years amid signs that the UK PFI market, which is the company’s largest sector, is slowing, write Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken.
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FeaturesPark Hill Flats, Sheffield
Client: English Partnerships, Manchester Methodist and Urban Splash
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CommentSquashed flat
So farewell to Erinaceous, possibly the most bizarrely named company in the construction sector: the hedgehog has finally curled into a ball and rolled out of the door.
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Redfern fills Sutcliffe’s shoes
The group chief executive of Taylor Wimpey is to take permanent direct control of the housebuilder’s UK business after the resignation of Ian Sutcliffe, its UK chief executive.
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Potters Fields rethink
Southwark council says a new architect will be sought for Berkeley Homes’ mixed-use scheme at Potters Fields by the Thames.
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Fresh setback for Ocean estate as three teams pull out
2000-home east London regeneration scheme reduced to four bidders over cost fears
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CommentLesley Lokko: 'I enjoy writing the sex scenes. It's great fun!'
Erotica isn’t perhaps the first thing you think of when Building drops on your desk, but then it’s not every week we get to interview best-selling bonkbuster author Lesley Lokko. Emily Wright spoke to her about her African upbringing, her training as an architect and, well, you know, the naughty ...
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Low energy ventilation and heating
Kingspan Off-Site has launched a collection of low-carbon technologies which were specified to create the building fabric for the Kingspan Lighthouse, the demonstration Code for Sustainable Homes level 6 house built at BRE.
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NewsElectric fires
Dru Fires has launched the Metro 80e – an electric version of its Metro gas fire.
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NewsAn Oxford education
HKR Architects has been appointed by Oxfordshire council to carry out a feasibility study for a new academy in the city.
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Stamp duty is the key
41% of buyers say that abolition of stamp duty is the incentive most likely to tempt them to buy a new home, according to research from online estate agent Rightmove.