All Building articles in 2008 Issue 8 – Page 8
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News
Aye, there’s the hub
Feilden Clegg Bradley has won a competition to design the London Greenhouse, a 70,000ft2 building that will act as a “hub” for research into environment issues.
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Atomic Zog
English Partnerships has appointed Zog Brownfield Ventures (ZBV) to redevelop its Atomic Energy Technology Centre in Dorset.
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Comment
Architecture is not enough
As an architect who used to live in east Greenwich (we worked on The Albany Project in my second year at architecture school) and whose children attended school in Deptford, I am writing from the US to express my disgust at the racist attack described in your article (“Adjaye’s Stephen ...
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Arbitration: Heifer International Inc vs Helge Christiansen*
Heifer International Inc (Heifer) is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands and is owned by the family of a wealthy Russian who lives in England. Heifer engaged Helge Christiansen (HC), a Danish architect and his firm, Christiansen Arkitekter KS MAA PAR (CA), to refurbish a substantial home ...
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Comment
Hand over all the money
You can recover damages for losses caused by breach of contract but probably not for the loss of the use of money awarded in damages. Interest, in other words.That’s a bit odd isn’t it?
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News
Homebuilders’ dismay at plan to make all homes fit for all
Government gives developers five years to design all housing for use by elderly and disabled
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Miller reviews PFI work after director leaves
Miller Group’s head of PFI has left after the company began to scale back of work in the sector.
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Comment
Adjudication:The glass is half full, Rupert
Rupert Choat cited the number of cases that adjudication has thrown up, listed problems with some grey areas and concluded that the glass was half empty. Here’s the other side of the story
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Adjudication:The dangers of DIY
We must make sure that lay representativaes in adjudication have adequate knowledge of the law and the process
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News
Moseleys accord
Moseley & District Churches Housing Association will join the Accord Housing Group in the autumn.
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Accessible kitchens
Symphony has extended the range of finishes that its Esprit collection of kitchen furniture for people with disabilities comes in.
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Former John Laing chair dies at 90
Sir Maurice Laing, former chair of contractor John Laing, has died aged 90.
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Mitie to name 50 ‘elite’ subbies
Fit-out contractor Mitie Interiors is to overhaul its supply chain, following similar moves by main contractors including Costain, Wates, Bovis and Laing O’Rourke.
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Trade unions express amazement as ODA rejects T5 pay deal
Unions have expressed amazement at the Olympic Delivery Authority’s refusal to adopt the same pay deal offered to electricians at Heathrow Terminal 5.
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Features
Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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Waterman’s foreign affairs push profit up 43%
Waterman Group has posted a 43% rise in pre-tax profit to £3.3m for the six months to 31 December 2007.
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300 jobs go at Persimmon in wake of Northern Rock crisis
Three office closures and review of activity levels led to 5% of workforce being made redundant
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300 jobs go at Persimmon in wake of Northern Rock crisis
Three office closures and review of activity levels led to 5% of workforce being made redundant
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Features
International costs: 2008
As inflation cools in western Europe and the US, it’s roaring away in eastern Europe. Gardiner & Theobald surveys the world and tells us what it sees