All Building articles in 2008 Issue 3 – Page 5
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NewsHello, Piccadilly
Specialist contractor Inviron is to complete M&E work on the Carver’s Warehouse development in Manchester next month.
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Healthy results
Turnover at Multibuild has increased 16% to £71.2m in the 12 months to 30 September 2007.
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CommentLiving in harmony
The Olympic park can be completed on time and without conflict between the sectors – but the strategies to ensure good relations must be sorted now.
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NewsGrandstand views
Architect Stock Woolstencroft has been given the green light for six mixed-use buildings rising up to 43 storeys at the main entrance to the Olympic park.
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CommentWeb watch — Golden nuggets
If you want the latest environmental information in easily digestible, bite-sized chunks, you really should log on to Building’s sustainability channel. Phil Clark explains why
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Comment
Going for green
The news that the Olympic Delivery Authority’s business network will help companies across the UK compete for London 2012 business opportunities is a welcome announcement.
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CommentAre we gliding or plummeting?
“In 2008 it is likely that a less buoyant housing market will go hand in hand with slower growth in consumer spending. In the short run, that will slow economic activity, possibly quite sharply.”
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NewsWork starts on Santa Giulia
Work is set to begin on the first stage of the Fosters + Partners masterplan in Santa Giulia on the outskirts of Milan.
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Features
The tracker: Getting the jitters
The industry is still expanding but the uncertainty in the financial markets is starting to make itself felt in the civil engineering sector. Experian Business Strategies reports
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CommentI’ll get you later
This is the story of a client that decided to sue a contractor but not its consultants. Then it changed its mind and went after them, too. The consultants claimed that this was abuse of process – but were they right?
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Comment
Playing a risky game
I note every week the array of pictures sent in by vigilant readers detailing clear health and safety breaches seen on building sites, often in this country.
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NewsGleeds wins framework for Network Rail
Consultant appointed cost and project manager on four-year framework
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NewsFit for humans now?
3D Reid has unveiled designs for this cultural centre as part of English Partnerships’ £400m regeneration plan for the town centre of Slough, Berkshire.
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NewsFlights of fancy
Foreign Office Architects and Altarea-Cogedim have won a competition to design production, research and education facilities for the European aerospace industry at the 40ha former Montaudran Aerodrome site in Toulouse, south-west France.
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NewsLatest figures show suddenness of housing market fall
Housing tracker … but Weston Homes and Bellway made most hay when the sun shone
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Turn to Europe
McBains Cooper has appointed Campbell Devine as head of European consulting to raise the firm’s profile with a variety of projects in the commercial and hotel sectors.
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NewsWarren Porter’s postcard from Dubai
The WSP principle fire engineer watches AC Milan play the UAE as construction keeps on booming under the sizzling winter sun
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