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FeaturesMichael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett school – London’s first Building Schools for the Future project – succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There’s probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
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FeaturesTragedy at Tesco
In September 2006 a three-year-old girl was killed when the roof of a Tesco store in Turkey caved in. The retail group blamed the collapse on ‘extreme weather conditions’, but 18 months on, Building has obtained a report filed by senior figures at Tesco soon after that cites poor construction ...
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FeaturesCamp Telefónica
The design of a huge telecoms business park near Madrid borrows heavily from a Roman military camp
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Comment
A fundamental flaw
The proposals to review Building Regulations regularly every six years looks like a throwback to the seventies to me (I am a former building control officer).
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A place for sarcasm
I am reassured to see from the photos attached to the article Welly Garden City (14 March, pages 60-62), that the landscape and natural countryside is being so effectively held back and not allowed to encroach on yet another “green development”.
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Voice of the common man
Congratulations on your article about pleural plaques (14 March, page 36), as it is an important issue that deserves prominent and regular attention.
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New tricks
Regarding the fact that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is to be axed and its responsibilities reallocated to local authorities (18 March, building.co.uk), I think this shift in emphasis is a good idea.
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To complete the list …
I noticed that your article on The Sunday Times’ good employers list (14 March, page 15) missed out Royal Haskoning.
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NewsCabe lauds controversial 2012 stadium design
Cabe’s critique of the 2012 venues has given the thumbs-up to the Olympic stadium design, but slammed the bridges that surround it.
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70 SMEs go bust in a month as credit crunch tightens its grip
More than 70 small construction companies have gone bust in the past month, in an indication of the growing impact the credit crunch is having on SMEs in the sector.
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Bechtel closes in on Crossrail delivery partner job
US engineer Bechtel has emerged as the firm favourite to win the role of delivery partner on the Crossrail scheme.
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NewsGrand Piano
As negotiations continue over the Shard, images have been revealed of the first UK project designed by its architect, Renzo Piano, close to Centrepoint tower in central London.
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Oxford University campus attracts star-studded shortlist
Oxford university has shortlisted Bennetts Associates, David Chipperfield, Kohn Pedersen Fox and Wilkinson Eyre for two academic buildings worth £150m.
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Diploma to double intake
Places on the construction and built environment diploma will be doubled for September 2009, under plans announced by the government.
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Urban Splash plans hotel expansion
Urban Splash has appointed architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris to design the second hotel in its emerging hospitality division.
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NewsSo that’s how it’s done
Construction has begun on Eureka, a sustainable office building in Kent for developer Quadrant Estates.
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NewsThe Pearl of Newquay
Construction is about to start on this residential scheme on Newquay promenade in Cornwall.