All Building articles in 26 September 2008 – Page 7
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CommentThe camera sometimes lies
Open mike Thermal imaging is an invaluable tool, but beware: in the wrong hands, those pretty pictures don’t always tell the full story, says Rod Appleyard
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CommentSupersizing Cabe
Cabe is happy to condemn the work of ‘commercial’ practices but seems rather reluctant to do the same for the A-listers, such as Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie-talkie
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NewsOutgoing Lend Lease chair plans buy-to-let scheme
Nigel Hugill considers converting swaths of unsold city-centre flats into student accommodation
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Building buys a pint … for Elementa Consulting
Chosen venue: The George, Borough High Street Ambience: Olde Worlde pub crowded with not so olde worlde afterwork drinkers Topics: sustainable pubs, softball and water divining Drinks: 7 pints of Guinness, 4.5 pints of bitter, 1 pint of Fosters, a half of Becks, 2 white wines
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Ibstock cuts jobs in brick crisis
The UK’s second biggest brick maker, Ibstock, is to make up to 136 redundancies as the continued housing slump forces it to close two plants and mothball a third.
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NewsVinci uses Taywood to boost nuclear plans
Vinci plans to use its £74m acquisition of Taylor Woodrow to become a major player in the UK nuclear market, according to John Stanion, the company’s chief executive, writes Tom Bill.
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Berkeley Group mothballs large regeneration schemes
Pidgley buys smaller sites from distressed housebuilders for a quarter of asking price
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NewsBattersea remembered
Today marks the second anniversary of the Battersea crane disaster, which killed two people
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NewsFire in Bath
Sir Robert McAlpine’s £360m Southgate shopping centre in Bath was evacuated after a fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon
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Banks seek safety in numbers on BSF schemes
Financial turmoil compels financiers to team up to fund Building Schools for the Future projects
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Barratts bank talks
Sources close to the talks between Barratt and its banks have dismissed claims that the group is in danger of breaching its recently negotiated banking covenants as “wide of the mark”.
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NewsKier: we’re not bailing out of housebuilding
Kier has dismissed reports that it is planning to abandon the private housebuilding market, writes Tom Bill.
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FeaturesOkay, so there’s a downturn, but it’s never a bad time to bolt on a few extra skills …
Despite the cloud hanging over the industry, students are continuing to pile into construction-related postgraduate courses. And, as Debika Ray discovers, it may not be as mad as it sounds
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Give the money back
Almost £1bn of lottery funding for the 2012 Olympics should be kept for the regeneration of east London, instead of being returned to lottery good causes when land is sold, Hackney councillor Guy Nicholson said.
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Asbestos speech
Alan Ritchie, general secretary of the Ucatt, told the conference that workers who had developed pleural plaques after exposure to asbestos were being cheated out of their rightful compensation by a “greedy, scheming” insurance industry.
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NewsUK architects will visit China on sustainability market mission
The government is to take a group of architects to China in November in an attempt to snatch a share of the country’s sustainability market.
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Ennstone approach
Ennstone approach Ennstone, the materials group, has reportedly begun takeover talks with Marwyn Materials, a cash shell.
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FeaturesLast word in trainers: APC assessment guide
The people who brought you the APC Trainer have gone one better … Jon Lever is the man who trains the APC assessors and over the next two years he will guide you through each step in the process that leads up to the final assessment on building.co.uk. This week, ...
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Primary school plan announced
The government is likely to put in place a more formal delivery strategy for its primary school capital build programme this autumn, officials have said.