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FeaturesWhen design is a crime
It is estimated that half of all site accidents are caused by hazardous designs. The CDM regulations were intended to change this, but only 8% of architects are aware of their duties under them. The HSE has now lost patience with this situation, and is threatening to put negligent designers ...
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A cry for help
What can a small builder do when domestic clients refuse point blank to pay their bills? I found that the only option was to decide to close my business
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FeaturesA game of two halves
In a top-of-the-table clash, architect Austin-Smith:Lord takes on old warhorse Denys Lasdun. But how will the young pretender respond to Lasdun’s brutalist Liverpool University sports centre?
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FeaturesBuilding at altitude
What a difference 30 years makes. High-rise apartment blocks have gone from upright slum terraces to homes for the upwardly mobile. But building tall towers on tiny city-centre sites is a tough challenge. We report on the new popularity of homes in the sky and the engineering and logistical solutions ...
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Westbury attacks ‘pointless’ English Partnerships
Martin Donohue, the outgoing chief executive of housebuilder Westbury, this week attacked the government for failing to implement the measures recommended in the Barker report.
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Heron closes in on Crest
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson was this week forced to meet with Heron, the property developer that is its biggest shareholder and which is planning a hostile takeover.
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Wilson Bowden warns City of margins ‘under pressure’
Housebuilder Wilson Bowden this week warned sales in the first half of the year would drop and that margins were under more pressure.
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CommentWe want a new Labour
If a Labour government returns to power next week – and there’s little to indicate that it won’t – at least the construction industry should be pleased. It’s hard to conclude otherwise. Labour may have lost its appeal on a personal level to those working in the industry, as our ...
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NewsSporting triumph
Architect Austin-Smith: Lord has added a £2.7m extension to Liverpool University’s sports centre, which was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and built in 1966. The extension is suspended off steel A-frames and echoes the conical Roman Catholic cathedral nearby. The extension was built by ROK, with TD Bingham as structural ...
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NewsBring on the World Cup
The Allianz Arena in Munich, one of the key venues for the 2006 World Cup, is virtually complete ahead of its opening game on 31 May this year. Resembling a giant pillow, the 66,000-seater stadium is covered in ETFE sheeting that is translucent around the sides and transparent on the ...
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Costain poaches Taylor Woodrow’s Andrew Wyllie
Costain has poached Taylor Woodrow’s construction managing director, Andrew Wyllie, to be its next chief executive.
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Gleeson keeps equity stake
Contractor Gleeson is set to take an equity stake in the company’s building division after it is sold off.
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NewsA night for winners
Costain was named major contractor of the year at the 2005 Building Awards. The event, which attracted a record 1900 people to the Grosvenor House Hotel, saw a host of former Olympic medal winners including 4 × 100 m relay gold medallist Marlon Devonish, hand out the gongs. Other winners ...
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Architect faces Legionnaires deaths retrial
A council architect charged with the manslaughter of seven people after the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Britain is to face a retrial, it was announced at Preston crown court on Monday.
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NewsLooking up
A primary school in King’s Cross, London, plans to fund its £11m building programme by leasing the air-rights for student accommodation. Architect Shepheard Epstein Hunter has designed the school on the ground floor with 165 student rooms rising to six storeys above it. The 6000 m2 building is arranged around ...
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NewsBovis resolves foreign labour dispute at BBC site
Contractor holds emergency talks after labour agencies threaten to sue UCATT over unfair treatment allegations
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Master builders call for anti-cowboy ASBOs
The Federation of Master Builders has backed a court ruling that handed a cowboy builder an anti-social behaviour order and called for the use of similar measures to control rogue builders in the industry.
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Gavin’s pod pleas answered
Rochester-based specialist Shotcrete has built the spherical concrete pods for TV presenter Diarmuid Gavin’s ideal garden design, to be showcased at the Chelsea Flower Show next week.
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London architecture school reintroduces live projects
Live building projects are to be reintroduced as part of the architecture course at London Metropolitan University.
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Canalside cool
Building Design Partnership plans to move its 275-strong Manchester office into a £5m block entirely designed by the multidisciplinary practice. The 3850 m2 development by Town Centre Securities will be one of the first new buildings overlooking Piccadilly canal basin next to Manchester’s main railway station. The building will be ...