All Building articles in 2008 Issue 2 – Page 4
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APC Trainer: Are you competent in risk management? (A090)
Our APC expert shows you how to ace your final asessment
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South-west strategy
Planning inspectors said this week that the South-west region must increase planned development in its draft spatial strategy by a fifth from 23,000 to 28,000 units a year.
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FeaturesStudio Royale
James Bond’s favourite car maker gets an appropriately elegant design workship
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CommentDo the right thing
Pursuing the bottom line at any cost is a quick route to extinction in today’s business world. It’s time we all embraced the new era of corporate responsibility, says Richard Steer
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Specialists slam vetting process
Specialist contractors are calling on the government to create a single set of competency standards for the industry, in a backlash against onerous terms introduced by main contractors.
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Persimmon purchase
The east Midlands division of housebuilder Persimmon has bought its largest ever site – a 120 acre plot in Stanground, Peterborough – to build 1,525 homes.
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FeaturesThe path to power
News analysis: The government has willed the creation of the first nuclear reactors since 1995, but to get them it needs to erect a new planning system, overcome opposition from a host of enemies – some within the construction industry – and work out a way to store toxic waste ...
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CommentStripped for part
We aim to bring you the best bits of the week’s drinks parties, Olympic gossip and satellite TV at a knock-down price. And if you’re lucky we’ll throw in a 10ft wind turbine, no questions asked …
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NewsNew on the Warsaw skyline
Arup and Davis Langdon are consultants on the scheme. Lilium Polska is the client.
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FeaturesMeet the new nanny
Lance Taylor is chief executive of Rider Levett Bucknall, a global QS that, according to him, resembles a ‘65-year-old toddler’. Here the rugby-playing hard man tells Karolin Schaps how he plans to nurture it through its teething problems.
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NewsODA makes U-turn over payments to specialists
Olympic construction director says project bank accounts ‘not appropriate’ for large schemes
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Miller in Lancashire
English Partnerships has named housebuilder Miller Homes preferred developer to build 149 houses on a 6.5ha site in Eaves Green, Chorley, Lancashire.
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Koolhaas quits Olympic shortlist
Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture has pulled out of the shortlist to masterplan the post-2012 Olympic Park, it has emerged.
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CommentIt’s yesterday once more
Sir John Egan must have felt a bit like Detective Inspector Sam Tyler from Life on Mars when he first encountered the 1998-era construction industry, filled as it was with firms dressed in metaphorical kipper ties and brown leather jackets who weren’t afraid to cut a few corners to get ...
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Industry seeks ‘joint voice’ for schools procurement
Industry groups and contractors are in talks to reach a joint position on improving the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsPakistan turmoil hits Mott MacDonald
Planning work on Mott MacDonald’s £245m Karachi Port Tower in Pakistan has been hit by political unrest in the country.
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NewsPakistan turmoil hits Mott MacDonald
Planning work on £245m Karachi Port Tower in Pakistan has been hit by political unrest
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U-turn hands responsibility for Gateway to super-agency
Ministers have decided to hand responsibility for the Thames Gateway regeneration programme to the soon-to-be formed housing and regeneration super-agency, contradicting earlier statements.
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Comment
A fledgling workforce
David Cameron’s back to work initiative, raises the memory of the Leeds council community programme of the eighties.