All Building articles in 22 May 2009 – Page 5
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News'Massively overstretched' banks stall WYG rescue bid
Consulting engineer forced to wait to cut rescue deal with three lenders, as it slashes 300 more jobs
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Balfour trading well
Balfour Beatty has said that trading has been in line with expectations in 2009.
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Fate of Verry jobs still in the balance
The confusion surrounding McLaren’s bid to take over the contracts of Verry Construction grew this week
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Woods Bagot director steps down
Stephan Reinke, director of European operations for Australian architect Woods Bagot, announced that he was to leave after nine years at the company
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesAuschwitz: telling the SS I was a builder saved my life
Sixty-five years after he entered Auschwitz, Albert Veissid tells Ben King the extraordinary tale of how his fictitious construction skills helped him survive
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UK attacks EU plan to force on-site energy generation
Associations lobby against directive that would force buildings to create their own energy by 2019
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NewsFormer CNP bosses fight to take over assets
Malcolm Hollis battles with former directors of collapsed consultant
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Arup examines scorching floors
Arup has confirmed that it has been appointed to investigate a defective underfloor heating system that has delayed the opening of a £22m hospital in Wales by a year
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NewsRenzo Piano's Art Institute in Chicago:
The $294m (£189m) Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, has opened its doors to the public
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Three shortlisted to build first apartments in Olympic village
Contractors Ardmore Construction, Galliford Try and Wates have been shortlisted to build the first residential plot in the 2012 athletes’ village
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Comment
Not just any old wood
Regarding our timber study for the Wood Window Alliance (24 April, page 69), it is important to realise that the negative value for embodied carbon was based on the knowledge that the timber would be sustainably sourced from a well-managed forest, and that in the future, most of it would ...
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FeaturesAnother expenses row: public reactions to Part L plans
The government is pondering a plan to force people to spend money on insulating their homes. So what do the public make of that?
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Schools framework announced
Partnerships for Schools has shortlisted 22 companies for its extended £4bn national academies framework
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Comment
All publicity is good
The essence of Building’s editorial in the 9 May edition (page 3) is that the Prince of Wales’ intervention into the quality of design of the built environment, is a good thing. Up to a point
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NewsCourt action: Galliford Try at Wimbledon
Galliford Try has been appointed to build a new court number three at Wimbledon, with construction to begin after this year’s championships
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NewsResidents plan legal action over Rogers' Chelsea scheme
Group threatens Westminster council with judicial review on heels of Prince Charles’ intervention
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NewsTurner & Townsend axes 90 jobs in UK
Consultant cuts jobs this week following months of resisting redundancies
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News£6.6bn BAA framework is ditched for major projects
Airports operator to use competitive tenders for all schemes over £25m as it tries to bring down costs
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BDP fights back over £4.6m Wimbledon claim
Building Design Partnership is contesting a £4.6m claim by the All England Lawn Tennis Club that it was responsible for design flaws on the media and broadcast centre at Wimbledon