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FeaturesWhat to remember: Flood proofing
As water levels and flood risks rise across the country, Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg offers some guidance to specifiers trying to protect doors and windows
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FeaturesCan the Olympics save their jobs?
Furniture supplier Remploy needs to save £227m and is planning to shut 32 of its factories – a move that the TUC says would spell disaster for its largely disabled workforce. Now there’s hope that orders for seating for Olympic venues could provide a lifeline.
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FeaturesA giant leap for Foster
Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before …
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Sturgis
Forget the Heathrow hippies; I seem to have infiltrated a table full of hardcore revolutionaries. Well, kind of.
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CommentIts 60%, but not that 60%
Further to Bill Watts’ Open mike column on schools (24 August, page 32), it must be made clear that the government’s plan for schools is not to “generate 60% of their energy from on-site renewables”, but to reduce carbon emissions by 60% from 2002 levels.
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Renewables on the curriculum
Bill Watts’ comments focus too much on the building and its cost, rather than its purpose.
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SAP method works the best
It was a delight to read Jeff Howell’s article (31 August, Page 30) on the dreaded Home information packs (Hips).
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In defence of PVC
Douglas Kent’s comments in the online article “BAA forced to remove plastic windows from listed building” (23 August) are just the type of misinformed remarks we’ve come to expect from the anti-PVC brigade.
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T5 electricians to strike unless new wage deal is agreed
Workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 will strike if a wage agreement is not settled with the Electrical Contractors Association (ECA).
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NewsWilly Wonka would be proud
This is the new Nestlé chocolate museum in Mexico, designed by Mexican architect Rojkind Arq.
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Laing O’Rourke’s role on St Pancras Chambers in doubt
Laing O'Rourke was this week locked in talks with the client of the £80m refurbishment of the St Pancras Chambers over its future role as contractor on the scheme.
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Skills funding likely for NCC
The Learning and Skills Council has said it is confident it will support the National Construction College’s (NCC) £15m bid for funding.
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Hanif Kara becomes Cabe’s first engineer commissioner
Hanif Kara has become the first engineer to become a commissioner at design watchdog Cabe.
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Disabled organisation in talks to supply Olympic seating
Ailing furniture manufacturer Remploy, the largest employer of disabled people in the UK, is in talks to supply seating for the Olympics.
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Velocity for Capita
Capita Symonds’ construction management division has been appointed principal contractor to complete the £70m mixed-use “Velocity Village” in Sheffield.
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Media-savvy Jackson
ISG Jackson has been awarded a £7m design and build contract by the Arthur Mellows Village College in Peterborough, to build a science, media and IT facility.
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Salford Countryside
Countryside Properties has been granted planning permission from Salford council for the next phase of its New Broughton regeneration scheme in Lower Broughton.
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German pyramid
Backers of the largest ever pyramid are inviting proposals from architects with a view to making it 10 times bigger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
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Crispin & Borst school
Crispin & Borst, which is part of Vinci, has been awarded a £5m contract to construct a two-storey primary school at St John Fisher Primary School in Perivale, Middlesex.