All Building articles in 2008 Issue 4 – Page 6
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NewsFive steps to …
… achieving air-tightness. Peter Capelhorn of Scott Brownrigg guides you through the main points to consider when sealing a home
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More first-time woes
Mortgage costs for first-time buyers have overtaken figures from the early nineties.
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NewsNext stop the Niagara Falls!
Peter Renn spotted this wannabe tightrope-walker on a cold and windy housing site in Leicestershire. He says: “I assure you it was indeed an apex ridge on a steeply sloping roof.”
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LED external lighting
Ansell Lighting has introduced the Sierra Luxeon LED exterior spotlight, to cater to the growth in commercial and residential exterior lighting needs.
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No excuses
The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn’t this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.
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Sharewatch — One man’s scam wrongfoots US stock exchange
Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old French derivatives trader who cost Société Générale £7bn, was the new name on people’s lips last week.
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CommentIt’s just not good enough
Public authorities have to treat all bidders with perfect impartiality. As perfection is quite a high standard to meet, many are judged wanting. Like this client here …
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English-only safety tests mooted
The board of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme is considering plans to make migrant workers take its health and safety test in English.
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Error in energy rating software found
The government is taking urgent steps to prevent an embarrassing software glitch from undermining its drive to encourage the construction of more environment-friendly homes.
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FeaturesQuite a departure
It’s finally here, and it’s quite unlike any other airport experience in the world. Over the next five pages, Martin Spring imagines what passengers will make of Richard Rogers’ monumental Heathrow Terminal 5. Then, on page 50, we ask whether this groundbreaking project really has changed the construction industry for ...
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Wilson James deal
Wilson James has been awarded a £900,000 contract by Bovis Lend Lease to provide logistical support at the Chiswick Park Building 9 project in west London.
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NewsThe great Danish hospital
A team including architects Avanti, CF Møller Architects and Cubo Arkitekter has won a contract to design the largest hospital in Denmark.
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News‘A damaging merry-go-round of ministers’
That was how former construction minister Nick Raynsford described the latest ministerial reshuffle to affect the industry, in a letter to Gordon Brown this week. Caroline Flint, a former minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, takes on the Cabinet-level role of minister for housing, replacing Yvette Cooper.
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‘Darth Vader’s helmet’ dented as contracts are retendered
Start date for Stanhope’s £300m City office scheme may be put back until 2009
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Contractors tighten overheads
Contractors will tighten their overheads in 2008 as a result of the credit crunch, consultant Davis Langdon has predicted.
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NewsSieze the contract!
Robert AM Stern Architects has won a competition to design the Tour Carpe Diem in Paris.