All Building articles in 2008 Issue 17 – Page 4
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NewsCIBSE, Arup and others ‘Engineer the Future’ in Think 08 Seminars
From carbon calculators to avoiding the Apocalypse, it's slide rules for sustainabilty at the ExCel
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NewsWork starts on Olympic sailing facilities
Weymouth & Portland Academy will be first venue completed for 2012 Games.
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NewsConstruction confidence falls to ten-year low
Purchasing index reveals reduction in activity in housing, commercial and civil engineering in April
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NewsGVA Grimley appoints Mike Jeffries as chairman
Jeffries will retain role at Wembley National Stadium while chairing property services company
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NewsConstruction firms back North Pole trek
McGee and McGrath Group sponser team of 'Lost Penguins' in race to raise money for WaterAid
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Housebuilder fails: £3m debts
Collapse of West Country housebuilder Cotswoldgate leads to calls for a change in company law
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NewsConstructionSkills says sorry for 'sexist' advert
Training body says provocative newspaper advert is ‘something we won’t be doing again’
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NewsCouncils act to purge suppliers in wake of OFT inquiry
Contractors face being left off local authority tenders as public sector clients react to bid-rigging scandal
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NewsEPC costs balloon to 10 times more than planned
Energy certificates will cost £1.5bn this year, rather than £148m, assessors warn
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FeaturesWhere’s the remote?
Universities have latched on to the benefits of using the internet to deliver courses, says Katie Puckett. But tutors needn’t worry about being replaced by robots just yet…
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Comment
Pump it up
Your recent article on the Code for Sustainable Homes (18 April, page 52) makes a good point. There is indeed much confusion around the code and SAP ratings, mostly because, in important areas, the formulae used in SAP are based on historic data and are not up to date with ...
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Comment
Sexual politics
Sometimes it’s hard to be a man. They must use tact when persuading partners not to drive off a cliff and are cruelly judged on the colour of their shirts. Still, at least they don’t have to give birth…
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Comment
Talking ourselves into it
The media hype around the looming recession merely serves to perpetuate the problem.
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CommentNEC: Smooth operator
The Olympic Delivery Authority has chosen the NEC contract in the hope that it will keep the job moving efficiently. But it will only work if it’s well enough resourced
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Comment
Shurely shome mishtake
I am led to understand that the glulam option (widely and imaginatively used around the world for swimming pool structures) for the roof structure of the aquatics centre has been rejected in favour of steel – on grounds of cost! Is this information accurate?
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CommentMarket testing sustainability
Is sustainability going to be the next casualty of the credit crunch? With houses recording their first annual fall for 12 years, and Tony Pidgley describing the crisis as worse than the nineties, it’s hard to imagine consumers squandering their angst on solar panels.
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MPs: Hadid pool is ‘over-designed’
The second critical parliamentary report on the 2012 Games within a week has described Zaha Hadid’s Olympic aquatics centre as “over-designed”, writes Dan Stewart.
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Tory success gives Labour a planning headache
Tory success in the local elections will lead to more council opposition to the goverment's eco-town proposals
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Tesco gets go-ahead
Phase two of Tesco’s Love Lane regeneration scheme in Woolwich, London, was given detailed planning approval this week.
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Growth slips
Tender prices are rising less rapidly as new orders slow, while growth could fall below 1% this year, warn Peter Fordham and Máren Bauldauf of Davis Langdon