All Building articles in 29 May 2009 – Page 5
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FeaturesCameron's cards: top Tories and their construction plans
How many members of the shadow Cabinet can you name? Thought so. But now that Labour is running out of time, options and MPs, you really ought to get to know them better. Sarah Richardson looks at the characters who will set the tone in a Tory government – and ...
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CommentWhy nobody wants to buy
Tumbling fees, dwindling workloads and payment periods stretching beyond the horizon
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Comment
Burning questions: Waste disposal strategies
Paul Mansouri and Mark Berry As Costain’s £398m waste project in Manchester confirmed, muck and brass are as linked as ever. The link between muck and renewable fuel is more recent
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Penson Group
“I’m claustrophobic ,” announces Lee Penson, founder of architectural practice Penson Group
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NewsTelford looks on the bright side
Telford Homes has posted a 35% fall in pre-tax profit and scrapped its dividend but has given a bullish assessment of future prospects
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CommentThe bridge on the river Tees
Its parents were Eric Fletcher and Margaret Thatcher. Assisting at the birth were 500 midwives. It is now being cared for by the 187,000 people of Stockton-on-Tees
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NewsBPF urges councils to be creative in regeneration funding
Councils should look at building homes or shops above schools to make regeneration schemes viable, a property lobby group has said
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Comment
Short and tweet: Bob Leung
Dispatches from the Twitter social networking site: Bob Leung is the co-founder of Woobius, the collaboration hub for architects and engineers and a partner at Make Architects
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NewsInquiry into union blacklist link
Members of the Unite union are calling for an investigation into allegations that officials handed information to the operator of a construction blacklist
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NewsLiverpool bids for rail independence
Liverpool’s public transport body, Merseytravel, is petitioning the government for control over commissioning track and signalling for its Merseyrail Electrics network, which is currently under the control of Network Rail
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NewsKeltbray cuts pay and staff in bid to ‘remain competitive’
Demolition contractor follows 90 redundancies with a 10% pay cut after a drop in new work
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NewsInfinity and beyond
The £15m Infinity Bridge in Stockton-on-Tees opened last week with a lights and fireworks show
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FeaturesOperation Hip: Igloo's Bermondsey Square
Bermondsey Square, the centrepiece of a £60m regeneration project in south-east London, is intended to seduce the young and trendy with its take on inner-city living
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CommentTell them a bedtime story: Public sector tendering
If you’re a public authority inviting tenders, you should treat bidders like small children, eager to learn how you will judge them – and for heaven’s sake make sure they do learn
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NewsBDP blames subcontractor in Wimbledon media centre row
Architect Building Design Partnership has launched an attack against fellow defendant FB Ellmer in the legal row over the Wimbledon media centre
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NewsRogers’ Chelsea Barracks design on thin ice
The future of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ designs for Chelsea Barracks was hanging in the balance as Building went to press on Wednesday
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NewsNG Bailey moves into forestry … and finds God
Eco-nunnery is among first clients as M&E firm starts up woodchip business for biomass boilers
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Comment
Answering Mr Arrowsmith
As stated in your recent article “Betrayal of trust” (15 May, page 34), NICEIC does have some sympathy with Mr Arrowsmith’s situation
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NewsSpecialists vent anger at 'bullying' contractors
Specialist contractors have demanded a meeting with the UK Contractors’ Group over allegation
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NewsAlsop steps into Puddle
A £250m Alsop Architects-designed hotel development at No 2 Puddle Dock in Blackfriars, central London, has gone in for planning