All Building articles in 24 April 2009 – Page 5
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NewsLow demand hits training courses
Training providers have become the latest group to be hit by the downturn, with the CIRIA one of several bodies cutting programmes sharply
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NewsThe foundations are laid for council homes
… but they won’t be built without reform of public finance
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Features
Mini cost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools and primary healthcare centres to investigate how recent dramatic falls in tender prices have affected building costs
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Comment
Correction
Due to a production error, the photographs of Andy Ritchie, global board director of Ryder Levett Bucknall, and Phil Dalglish, Saudi Arabia director for Buro Happold, were inadvertently transposed in the article “Make a wish” (9 April)
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Comment
Lip service won't do: Discrimination in construction
Now there’s even more reason to make clear your commitment to equality and diversity: if you don’t, you won’t secure those multimillion-pound public sector contracts
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NewsCitywatch: We're buying us!
It was a bizarre week for consulting engineer White Young Green: the graph shows it was by far the biggest climber in the construction sector
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News
First-time buyer woes
Greater restrictions on mortgage lending mean that first-time buyers are still shut out of the housing market, despite price falls, a housing charity has found
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NewsBudget fails to lift gloom over growth of national debt
Industry welcomes measures to soften impact of downturn but fears dramatic cuts in the futureBy the Building newsdesk
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NewsCurrie & Brown cuts quarter of Middle East staff
Currie & Brown has slashed staff numbers in the Middle East by a quarter in the past seven months
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NewsA long and winding bridge
Wilkinson Eyre has won a design competition for the “Peace Bridge” in Derry, Northern Ireland
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NewsShrubhill branches out
Plans for a development of 121 luxury serviced apartments in Shrubhill, Edinburgh, were submitted for planning this week by developer Frasers Property
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CommentWonders & blunders
Erica Wagner chooses two avant-garde icons for us, one of them a triumph of American engineering, the other an Anglo-Italian blemish on the Beaubourg
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CommentHansom: Bitter pills
There’s been much that’s hard to swallow of late in the world of construction, whether it be workers standing idle, a critic’s harsh words, a questionable quiz defeat or a whole sheep’s head
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CommentHuman beans
Our percentage fee culture treats architects and engineers like commodities and actually pays them less the better their designs work. Time for a rethink
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CommentWeb poll: The Chelsea Barracks furore
As Prince Charles pooh-poohed Lord Rogers’ design and proposed Quinlan Terry instead, nearly 1,000 readers rushed to our online poll to tell us which they prefer. The results so far? Terry 67%, Rogers 33%
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CommentApprenticeships: has the system collapsed?
Apprentices are one of the main victims of the recession, but if they suffer today, it’s a sure thing that the rest of the industry will suffer tomorrow. So how can they be saved?
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NewsSurvey reveals growing anger with banks
A fifth of small and medium-sized builders have been refused an extension to their overdraft in the past 12 months, despite government attempts to improve the availability of credit
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NewsGrand Prix hotel on track: Aldar's Yas Hotel
Part of the £27bn Yas Island development in Abu Dhabi, is on course to open in September