All Building articles in 24 October 2008 – Page 6
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ODA may use Lehman offices
Journalists could end up using the former Canary Wharf offices of Lehman Brothers as a press centre during the 2012 Olympic Games, it is understood.
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NewsFive ways to save the housebuilding industry
Over the past year, the government has launched numerous measures to halt the plunge in housing starts. But will any of them work? Joey Gardiner asks the experts
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NewsFit for a Sheikh
Atkins has unveiled its design for the Anara Tower in Dubai, which, at more than 600m, will rank among the world’s tallest structures
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Fine for worker injury
TJ Myles & Co and Crispin & Borst have been fined a total of £44,000 after a worker was paralysed after falling on a construction site on Grosvenor Street, central London.
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NewsShift to extra-care sector gives Wren new lease of life
SME profile Retirement homebuilder hopes rethink and £4m cash injection will help it out of the red
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NewsOne we made earlier
Modular contractor Spaceover has developed the UK’s first prefabricated two-storey family homes at its £10m Newhall development in Harlow, Essex.
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CommentWhat is to be done?
Do you remember the joke doing the rounds in the last recession? What do you say to an architect? “Big Mac and fries, please.”
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CommentMy digital life: Lee Penson
This architect likes a life of adventure, be it driving a classic Jaguar, yachting or racing cars on PS3. But even if he’s in the middle of a far-off ocean, he’ll be busy emailing the folks back home
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NewsSquare deal
Westminster council has approved plans to build a 2,100m2 hotel and cinema complex on the south-west corner of Leicester Square.
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NewsCurve with verve
Planning consent has been received for Virage, a £18m commercial development in Maidenhead by CSD Architects.
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CommentQSs in the crossfire
The collapse of the commercial sector and doubts over public spending have left cost consultants facing a bitter battle for work, with fees plummeting and staff casualties expected to be high. Olivia Boyd reports on how QSs are fighting the downturn
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NewsUnions criticise HSE’s influence over inquiry into its work
Unions, safety campaigners and MPs have questioned the involvement of the Health and Safety Executive in a government inquiry into the body’s work.
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Corrections
In our top 100 engineers section of the top 250 consultants tables (10 October, page 66) the figures for UK chartered staff for 2008 appeared in the 2007 column and vice versa.
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McBains Cooper goes global
Consultant McBains Cooper has launched a global division after opening two offices in South America.
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Problem contracts reduce Styles & Wood’s profit to nil
Ivan McKeever, chief executive of retail fit-out specialist Styles & Wood, has said the group will break even in 2008 as a result of margin shortfalls on projects completed last year.
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Comment
Self-defence for directors: Risks to directors when a company goes under
In the second article in our series on the legal implications of the economic downturn, we look at the risk to directors if their company goes under
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NewsCitywatch: The uncomfortable silence at Taylor Wimpey
The information vacuum at Taylor Wimpey over the progress of rescue talks with its lenders was making analysts particularly twitchy this week.
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FeaturesData centres: pruning energy consumption
The next time you use Google, think of the vast amounts of power data centres use – 20 times that of a normal office. Stephen Kennett looks at what companies are doing to prune their consumption
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NewsMarks’ capital
Architect Marks Barfield is designing 11 residential buildings in the Dubai Arts District