All Building articles in 5 June 2009 – Page 4
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NewsLive: World Environment Day - living without aircon
Up-to-the minute commentary on events marking World Environment Day including how we survived a day without chillers
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NewsJames Purnell quits Cabinet
Works and pensions secretary, who pushed for tower crane register, resigns from Brown's government
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NewsBuilding turns off air-conditioning for World Environment Day
Turning off the chillers at magazine's Ludgate House HQ will save at least £30
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NewsRising debt delays Liverpool stadium until 2012
Liverpool FC says construction will be delayed by three years in light of mounting debts
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NewsParsons Brinckerhoff wins East London Line design work
Consultant will draw up initital designs for what would be final link in an orbital railway around central London
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NewsBellway increases housing delivery in South-east
Housebuilder says housing market is stabilising but sees no major increase in demand
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NewsWomen and children first
Chivalry is not yet dead for the good folk of Bolton. Dave Billinge snapped a digger driver who, realising his bucket was blocking a footpath, kindly lifted it out of the way. Seems he can’t look either...
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Recycled windows
The UK’s first installation of PVCu windows made from 98% recycled window frames has been completed by Northwards Housing, a social housing company based in Manchester
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WAG reviews planning
The Welsh assembly government has announced a review of the system for submitting planning applications
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Comment
Noises off
In my experience, good acoustics in schools are still viewed as a nice-to-have rather than a must-have (“Can you hear me at the back?”, 15 May, page 40)
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NewsThe new temp: PVC pavilion
Lock Rennie has won a competition to design a temporary pavilion made of lightweight PVC fabrics for regional development agency Yorkshire Forward
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CommentTranscendental mediation: A mediator's role
The talking cure for construction disputes is a fine way to settle an argument – but only if the mediator is prepared to go beyond the role of polite, ineffectual facilitator
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Street lighting
DW Windsor has launched the Monaro, a contemporary low-energy luminaire for exterior lighting in urban settings
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JCT snubbed
Supporters of the JCT standard construction contract have criticised the government for creating a “monopoly in construction contracts” by endorsing only the NEC format
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NewsOutside wall insulation
External wall insulation and render systems from Alumasc have been used to bring housing in Doncaster up the government’s decent homes standard
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NewsInsulated roof panels
Unilin System’s structural insulated roof panels have been used on three carbon-neutral homes in Somerset
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London homes are sold
Only 916 newly built homes are lying empty and unsold in London, according to research from property firm Savills
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CommentHuman sacrifice won't help us
Kicking out apprentices and slashing training is not going to cure the recession, but it will kill the recovery. What firms need to do is keep their nerve – and their staff
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CommentHansom: Rock, paper, scissors
It’s a dead heat for who’s had the worst week: a load of rockery-dwelling statues, the man faced with a mountain of company records, or a client forced to delay a – ahem – delicate procedure
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CommentSometimes a great notion...
They say great ideas have three phases: first, they’re ludicrous, then they’re wrong and finally they’re obvious