All Building articles in 2008 Issue 7 – Page 6
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Crane website
The Strategic Forum is to set up a dedicated email address to which unsafe tower cranes can be reported.
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Council house work
Birmingham council is set to sign off a £129m programme of investment in refurbishing council homes over the next year.
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FeaturesCost model: Laboratories
Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency
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NewsSecond coming
Sheppard Robson’s Thames Gateway “megachurch” may still go ahead, despite being refused planning permission to be built in Dagenham by Havering council last week.
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Funding for college projects to be linked to eco performance
Funding for capital projects in higher education institutions will be linked to environmental performance in the future, according to the public funding body for the sector.
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Comment
When theres nobody to chase
Tony Bingham’s boss, a main contractor, was very good at chasing retentions from employers and getting paid (25 January, page 60); the problem comes when the employer goes bust.
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FeaturesZaha's challenge
The abandonment of Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ in London was a disappointment for design connoisseurs, but what does it tell us about the ambition of the British construction industry?
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FeaturesSports quiz: Return of the Six Nations rugby shirt challenge
Can the English bring the reigning French champions to their Waterloo? Predict the results of that and the weekend's other matches and you could win a rugby shirt of the team of your choice.France v EnglandFrance's team, the reigning champions, have been on fine form this tournament. Even Jonny Wilkinson ...
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Erinaceous at centre of second fraud probe
Troubled property consultant Erinaceous has become embroiled in a second fraud investigation.
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California dreaming
The £60m Broad Contemporary Art Museum designed by Renzo Piano opened this week in Los Angeles.
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NewsDoing business in difficult times
As the NHBC reveals the scale of the fall in private housing activity, Richard Donnell looks at how developers are responding
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Pochin on Broadway
Pochin has won an £11m contract to construct 120 apartments at the Broadway development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester.
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Briggs profit soars
Pre-tax profit at Briggs & Forrester, the M&E contractor, jumped from £1.6m to £4.1m in the year to 31 October.
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NewsHeatherwick bridge is scrapped
A signature bridge design by Thomas Heatherwick has quietly been dropped from a Docklands development.
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Second Forth bridge
The Arup-Jacobs consortium, including consultant EC Harris, has been appointed to manage the £4.2bn construction of the new Forth bridge in Scotland.
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NewsKerslake to review future of Thames Gateway bodies
Head of Housing and Communities Agency to probe effectiveness of regeneration delivery
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NewsSir Bob Kerslake: interview with Britain’s busiest man
We are republishing this interview after the news of Bob Kerslake’s death. The interview took place as he was taking the helm of the Homes and Communities Agency
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CommentWonders & blunders
Two English icons inpire Claire Sweeney: one with pride in the skills of its builders and designers, the other revulsion for the money wasted on it
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CommentPhase One goes to Birmingham
Over a hundred of Birmingham's bright young things came to the latest Phase One networking party hosted by Building
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NewsHilary Benn on "the green struggle"
Hilary Benn, the old-fashioned, decent, eminently trustworthy minister for climate change, seems genuinely engaged in the green struggle. But Thomas Lane wonders if that will really be enough to meet the government’s carbon reduction targets.