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  • News

    Rochester Riverside finally gets off launchpad

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Medway council in Kent is marketing the first phase of the 34ha Rochester Riverside site to developers, ending years of delay.

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    Cyril Sweett acquires Altonwood Project Services

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Cyril Sweett has purchased a project management and consulting service in north London for £500,000.

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    Rays way

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Ray O’Rourke has come a very long way in the past 30 years. After starting a business in an office adjoining his garage in east London, he is now at the helm of a global contracting and investment business worth £2.6bn, and with profits of more than £34m.

  • News

    Farrell signs up for Tories

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Lord Heseltine has asked Sir Terry Farrell to join the Conservative party’s taskforce to regenerate UK cities.

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    Start of the Pier show

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Work has started on an Atkins-designed 40-storey residential development in Dubai.

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    Inland Revenue exonerated in landmark CIS tax ruling

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    A builder who sued HM Revenue & Customs after claiming that administrative delays on the Construction Industry Scheme forced his firm out of business has lost his case.

  • News

    French Frank

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Frank Gehry has unveiled his design for a Paris museum of contemporary art. It consists of a series of enclosed galleries with glass-covered roof terraces.

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    Pilot study into viability of sustainable refurbishment

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Tuffin Ferraby Taylor (TFT) is teaming up with Slough Estates to introduce a pilot study into the viability of a sustainability programme for refurbishment.

  • News

    New Manchester takes shape

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Allied London has won planning consent for the latest building in its Spinningfields development in Manchester.

  • News

    Goldsmith attacks Labour’s sustainability record

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Zac Goldsmith, Tory adviser on the environment, has criticised the government for not forcing a change towards more sustainable construction methods in health projects.

  • News

    RMJM designs £200m Cambridge laboratory

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Architect RMJM is designing a £200m medical research laboratory in Cambridge, Building understands.

  • News

    Young Vic rejuvenated

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Architect Haworth Tompkins has completed the renovation of the Young Vic theatre, originally designed by Bill Howell in the 1960s.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    This week's movers …

  • Comment

    Is this a wind-up?

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    A subcontractor, SCC Construction Ltd, raised a number of invoices against the head contractor, Medlock Projects Ltd. The invoices were not paid and SCC presented a winding-up petition against Medlock to the court. Medlock Projects applied to restrain advertisement of the winding up petition. The unpaid invoices were for £51,642 ...

  • Set in the 12-acre grounds adjoining Alnwick Castle in Northumberland the visitor centre overlooks the garden and offers horticultural enthusiasts a shelter from which to admire the many spectacular features
    Features

    A light topping

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Kicking off this week’s Specifier, Sonia Soltani found out why the intricate larch structure has been shortlisted for a Wood award

  • Ray of light at Aghadoe Heights
    Features

    What to specify: roofing

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Specifiers hunting for roofing solutions that offer decorative window effects, energy-efficient solar power, tiles with lower pitches,or delightfully different colours to natural slates, need look no further

  • Features

    What to remember: Roofs

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Roofs are those things that keep the rain off us when we’re watching TV, aren’t they? Well, yes, but properly specified they have all sorts of other uses. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg looks at the options

  • The roof was lifted into place in just over four hours
    Features

    Raising the roof in Adamstown

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    HOW WE WORK TOGETHER — With an awkward site, a tight deadline and little room for error, spaceframe roof pioneer Mero UK was the obvious choice for architect BDP Ireland

  • Features

    Keeping out water since 1873

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    WHO MAKES IT - Germany’s FlachDach Technologie is a €70m-turnover company that manufactures waterproofing roofing membranes from polyisobutylene. For a full guide to suppliers of sustainability products, log on to www.building.co.uk/specifier

  • News

    Roofing

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    The Alnwick Garden visitor centre in Northumbria is no ordinary greenhouse, as the structural challenges posed by its slender diagrid roof reveal.