All Building articles in 31 October 2008 – Page 8
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High on a hill: Austrian glacial viewing platform
This glacial viewing platform, 3,200m up Mount Isidor in Austria, is open to the public
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Kier forms one-stop FM arm
Kier has reorganised its facilities management arm by merging Kier Managed Services with Kier Building Services Engineers.
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Sky high: Celebrating New York's architecture
Martin Spring celebrates New York’s architectural chutzpah
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The dream factory: Architectural innovation in New York
From the days of the first skyscrapers, architectural innovation has always found a home in New York. Martin Spring looks at the latest eye-openers from the city that never sleeps
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Comment
A very cross industry approach
Having read your ConstructionSkills article (17 October, page 38), I would totally support the views of Mark Farrar.
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Skerritt appoints new directors
Also: Cyril Sweett’s Norwich office hires new associate director
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Anxiety grows over Scottish PFI replacement
A replacement for the PFI that is being pioneered in Scotland is taking so long to get off the ground that some contractors are being forced to look for work abroad
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Dear Alistair: Building's spending plan for the chancellor
The chancellor might be getting that sinking feeling, but there’s no reason to despair. In fact, his plan to bring forward 2011 spending might just work. Here Sarah Richardson and Stuart Macdonald offer him a few suggestions on how it would make all the difference
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UAE’s labour welfare agency ‘doesn’t go far enough’
NGO Human Rights Watch welcomes agency to protect foreign workers against exploitation
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Arbitration after commencement of court proceedings
The CaseOn 21 December 2006 the claimant, Delta Reclamation (“Delta”), and the defendant, Premier Waste Management (“Premier”), signed an agreement which regulated the storage and processing of used tyre derivative aggregate replacement (UTDAR) at a quarry near Coxhoe.The agreement contained an arbitration clause submitting “all disputes arising out of the ...
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Johnson accused
London mayor Boris Johnson was accused of betraying his election promises this week after u-turning on a central London planning decision.
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Galliford Try fined after site accident
Galliford Try Construction has been fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to a safety breach at a site in Holyhead, north Wales.
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Let’s talk about sects
The Sect of the Great Mystery, that is, as nurtured by the high priests of modern British architecture. Only in the US is there a place for non-believers
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David Parkes, founder of PRP Architects, dies aged 77
David Parkes, one of the UK’s foremost housing architects and founder of Phippen Randall & Parkes (now PRP), died last week at the age of 77.
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The incident on 51st: Crane safety in New York
Since January, nine people have died in crane collapses in New York. The response? Tough safety rules, which the city council says will prevent death, and the industry says will make life impossible.
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Woking council to spend up to £300m on stalled sites
Surrey local authority pioneers scheme to purchase residential sites for social housing
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Ministers warned net mortgage lending ‘may hit zero in 2009’
Net mortgage lending could fall to zero next year, lenders have told ministers.
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Dracula AD 2008: Tuffin Ferraby Taylor lands Hammer House refurb
Consultant has won a contract to refurbish the original home of Hammer Film Production
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Public sector lifeline in doubt as £2bn BSF contracts stall
Fresh blow to contractors as Birmingham, Barnsley, and Salford and Wigan schemes face delay
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Can do: 17 tubular steel “cans” in Brighton
David Marks of Marks Barfield Architects and John Roberts of Jacobs Engineering inspect the 17 tubular steel “cans” that will make up the 180m-high, i360 observation mast in Brighton