All Building articles in 2008 Issue 20 – Page 3
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BRE to establish base at University of East Anglia
BRE is recruiting environmental scientists to work on project which will start in Autumn
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Architect prepares 'Cullinan Bird' for Hyde Park flight
Edward Cullinan Architects is building a gigantic polystyrene flying machine with the help of Ramboll Whitbybird and Element Energy
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Only one in ten Olympics employees are female
Just 11.9% of construction, design, consultancy and admin workers are women
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Kier closes two offices in housing division
Contractor says redundancies will be inevitable after closure of Lincoln and Spalding offices
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Will Alsop designs a jelly for London
Maverick architect enters jelly competition for London Festival of Architecture
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Somerfield and Network Rail clash over property
Two organisations head to High Court over payment to access land
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APC Trainer on... sustainability (M009)
This week we tackle sustainability (M009), an APC mandatory competency
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Edinburgh fires prompt concerns for timber safety
Firefighters push for tighter regulation for timber-frame buildings during construction
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OFT under fire for ‘wrongful’ accusations
Investigation into bid rigging is labelled “incompetent” as OFT is accused of gung ho approach
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Persimmon to double social housing to ride out crunch
Housebuilder aims to boost affordable output to 5,000 in medium term despite lower margin
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Office schemes could offer solution to overheated tubes
Plan to use surplus power from nearby buildings is latest move in the struggle to cool the underground
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Bellway axes 370 as 1,000 housing jobs go in a week
Land buyers and designers are worse hit in week that saw a further 600 jobs go at Taylor Wimpey
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Waterman on track
Consultant Waterman has said it is on track to hit City forecasts of £128m turnover in the year to 30 June 2008.
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System? What system?
Egan thought things went wrong in construction because we were all at each other’s throats. Actually, we get on fine – it’s the way we manage projects that floors us
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Turner & Townsend to project-manage the Shard
Consultant drafted in to strengthen team as Mace tries to work out how much tower will cost
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Various positions
Mark Clare is staying, Ross Brewer is leaping, Lawrie Haynes and Boris Johnson can’t be seen, a female engineer is attracting attention and the Department of Health is getting hot under the collar
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Web watch: Two peas in a pod
Our learned friends Tony Bingham and Rudi Klein kick off our first ever podcast series this week with a debate on the future of the Construction Act.
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Office schemes could offer solution to overheated tubes
Plan to use surplus power from nearby buildings is latest move in the struggle to cool the underground
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Not like the nineties
The £200m package to buy unsold homes proposed in the draft Queen’s Speech is the government taking money from housing associations (16 May, page 10).
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Let’s be reasonable
Insurance companies are notorious for finding ways not to pay out on their policies, but that may be about to change