All Building articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 5
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Gosport regeneration
A £140m regeneration programme for the Rowner estate in Gosport, Hampshire, has been submitted for planning permission.
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CommentGet ready to go wrong: Preparation
The tale of the passenger who ran away from a car wreck has much to teach the construction industry about preparing for its own little mishaps
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CommentGet the mechanics right
The delays to the Learning and Skills Council’s £5bn programme to upgrade further education colleges is a stark reminder of the reality gap between the government’s desire to accelerate public programmes and its ability to actually make this happen
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School fight, round three
Nick Raynsford MP complains (16 January, page 30) that the piece on Greenwich Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes is misleading and misrepresents Southern Gas’ position on the gas holder that has stalled plans to build a school on the Greenwich peninsula
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CommentPulling a fast one
My, some folk have been quick off the mark this year: the government on high-speed rail, Masdar on its zero-carbon accounts, Bellway’s boss on getting to work, and nearly all Dubai on Dubai’s great ‘secret’
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News‘Incredible integrity and extreme principles’
Ken Shuttleworth remembers a friend, colleague and single-minded architect
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Too little enforcement …
As far as I am aware, there is still no legal requirement for any property owner or its managing agent to implement the recommendations from an energy performance certificate (EPC) immediately
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God loves those who are just: Mediation in the Middle East
In the first of two articles, Mark Raeside looks at ways of resolving disputes for those working in the Middle East. Here he examines mediation – so good it even has divine blessing
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NewsSlide show: Suffolk sliding house by dRMM
Architect dRMM has created this unique Sliding House in Suffolk
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Opening doors
I am a second-year occupational therapy student at Coventry University. I am interested in receiving information regarding door access for some coursework
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Don’t recycle
Zaha Hadid’s Guggenheim-Hermitage museum design looks just like the Phaeno Science Centre in Germany.
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McCarthy & Stone shuts office and cuts jobs
The UK’s biggest builder of private retirement housing is shedding 120 jobs and closing an office in its latest round of cuts
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Manchester council may share framework
Manchester council is in talks about extending its £140m building framework to other local authorities around the region.
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Passivhaus shows up sustainable code failings
The world’s leading energy-efficient house design fails to measure up to minimum Code for Sustainable Homes standards, a sustainability consultant has alleged.
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NewsDodgy Clutch goes forward
Ryder Architecture has designed this community theatre for the people of Tyhume Valley in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
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NewsCitywatch: Strange but true …
… last month Barratt and Taylor Wimpey both outperformed the FTSE 100. Some may argue that when your share price is so low, any slight movement will produce a big percentage swing
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FeaturesSmall town China - QSs wanted
Its growth may have slowed from breakneck to merely spectacular, and some projects in the big cities look wobbly, but there’s still plenty of work in the people’s republic (especially for QSs). It’s just that you have to go to one-horse towns to find it – like Wuhan here, which ...
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NewsCentral station
Newcastle’s £22m, four-storey mixed-use Hub over the Haymarket metro station is nearing completion.