All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1343
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Clients demand safety cards for all by 2003
Top clients threaten to bar workers and managers from site unless they carry a unified registration
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Construction Confederation announces 10-year safety plan
The Construction Confederation has drawn up a 10-year safety plan to halt the safety crisis in construction.
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Slow start for urban renaissance
White Paper makes the right noises but action to streamline planning will have to wait until after the election.
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Swim in the profit stream
In the US a homebuilder is offering customers high speed digital services, video-on-demand, internet connection and telephony. These services will make profits for the developer year after year.
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Raynsford unleashes style police
Government plans raft of measures to force developers to "improve" house design in town and country.
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Roger Milne
Environmental issues, such as building on flood plains, may have been high on the news agenda but action to make a real difference is still patchy at best.
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Losing the plot
Forget about quick fixes. The reality of PPG3 is that greenfield permissions are going to take time, and many will fail. Nigel Moor looks at surviving the land bank squeeze.
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Land logbook will reduce risks
An Urban Task Force working party has launched a "logbook for land" to encourage more building on brownfield sites
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Homebuilding the stock market loves
Unite factory-builds, is a successful landlord in a low-rent sector and is not a housing association. Mark Brinkley investigates an innovator.
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Foundations
Foundations is a monthly distillation of up-to-date, previously unpublished data. The information is presented regionally to help with detailed business planning. House starts, compiled by the NHBC, show trends in your area well in advance of government data. Plus, fresh figures from the Halifax.
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Flexible friends
When Hightown Praetorian Housing Association wanted flexible housing that would last a family a lifetime it decided that partnership was the best way to achieve its goals. Alex Smith looks at the innovative and sustainable features that came out of the harmonious relationship between the client, contractors, consultants and architect.
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David Curry MP
Joined-up government it may not be, but this administration's "urban renaissance" programme is beginning to achieve structure and coherence. Even the Treasury has been persuaded to take part, to a degree, in support of Lord Rogers' agenda.
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Building Homes/OSMA : Regional housing forecast
Each quarter Standard & Poor financial consultancy DRI updates regional housing forecasts for the current year and the next for housing transactions, starts and prices – exclusively for plastics manufacturer Wavin.DRI then scores each region's housing economy, marking one star for worst performer, five stars for best. DRI uses its ...
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Chris Bazlinton
The Chancellor's pre-Budget statement had good news for regeneration but the news for London is not good with skill shortages slowing down building as demand soars.
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Upmarket appeal for the smart set
Rowntree Foundation report finds public split on smart technology but definite appeal for upmarket buyers.
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2000 Innovation Awards
The challenge set for the 15 influential judges in this year's Building Homes' Innovation awards, sponsored by Zurich Building Guarantees, was to appraise six alternatives to traditional brick and block construction. Here's what they think of evolving build methods.
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Worth of inspection process questioned
One of the councils in this week’s latest wave of Best Value reports has warned that the inspection process may be wasting public money.
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Last gasp housing drive
Details of a package of housing reforms emerged this week, as the government hurried to fulfil its promises before the next election.
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Joyless ride on estates of despair
Decades of underfunding of social housing have taken their toll. David Page says it is a race against time to end the spiral of decline.
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Rogers turns back on Going for Growth
The government’s regeneration guru has pulled out of one of the country’s biggest attempts to turn around depressed inner-city communities.