All Building articles in 24 July 2009 – Page 6
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Turner & Townsend: We will be bigger in US than UK
Consultant continues global push as it breaks £200m turnover and eyes two acquisitions
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The Belgian Reformation
Manchester architect Re|form has been shortlisted to redesign part of a Belgian town
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Not bad for a bus stop: HOK's Californian transport hub
Architect HOK and consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff have won a contest to design a transport hub for Anaheim in California
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Party Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre
Ash Sakula’s Carnival Arts Centre is Luton’s answer to Notting Hill – buzzing with life and invention and a haven for stiltwalkers and other forms of streetlife
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Comment
Where are we now? How architecture is understood and consumed
The way architecture is produced, consumed and understood in the 21st century has been transformed – for better and worse – by digital technology
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Amec buys Australian
Amec has signed a deal to buy Australian engineering and project development company GRD for £52m
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Comment
All for one: The OGC's contract decision
Tony Bingham claims the Office of Government Commerce was wrong to endorse the NEC3 contract over others, but in reality this is just the standardisation he was seeking
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Life after Skanska: David Fison on downsizing
After being on the ropes at one of the world’s biggest contractors, David Fison moved to a small family firm. Here he tells Roxane McMeeken what happened, and how it changed his life
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Abbey loses £46m
Anglo-Irish housebuilder Abbey has reported a loss of €54.4m (£46.7m) for the year ending 30 April, which compares to a profit of €16.8m in 2008
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Make tipped for £250m Brighton job
Ken Shuttleworth’s Make Architects is believed to have pipped Building Design Partnership, Wilkinson Eyre and his former colleague Norman Foster to the redevelopment of Brighton’s seafront conference centre
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Cooling system change to push up 2012 costs
Costs on the 2012 Olympic stadium and aquatics centre are likely to rise further after a recommendation by the Games’ sustainability watchdog that their cooling systems be reworked
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Comment
Wonders & blunders - 24 July 2009
Bill Price has happy childhood memories of discovering structural design at Coventry cathedral. But the London Research Institute? He can’t even bear to look at it
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Latest construction appointments - 24 July 2009
Morrison has appointed Mark Waterhouse partnering director for the Midlands and West, Simon Hayes managing director for the South and Mike Turner managing director for the North
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Green shoots - 24 July 2009
Noble Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, examines the latest commercial property data
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Material and labour costs to fall for first time since 1970
Davis Langdon says that tender prices are 10% lower than this time last year and that steel fell 40%
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G&T reveals loss of 13% of its partners
Gardiner & Theobald reveals more than one in 10 partners have left the business, which has been cutting staff
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New zero-carbon definition cuts cost of home by £11k
But housing minister John Healey reveals that new energy rules could cost the industry £7bn
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Mortgage lending rises £1.8bn
The Council of Mortgage Lenders said the amount of money borrowed by home buyers rose £1.8bn between May and June, but was only half what it was a year ago
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Features
Working life: finding 3,000 people to tunnel for Crossrail
Crossrail needs 3,000 human moles to construct 42km of tunnels and the woman over there on the right is on the look-out for them. Not easy, as the nearest academy is presently in Switzerland...
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160,000 refurbs delayed to pay for new-build pledge
Prime minister’s £1.5bn new homes fund sucks money from refurbishment and infrastructure schemes