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Way out with the count
While I was genuinely impressed with the victory of off-site manufacture over traditional build in your two-round bout (Homes, May, page 24), I feel I should point out that someone had not done their sums properly. The total cost per unit for traditional build should have been £218,000, making the ...
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Ups and downs
I was interested to read that Rod Maceachrane, commercial director of the National House Building Council, says that dispute resolution cases are down 14% year on year (16 April, page 43). The NHBC Annual Review records 4128 cases in 1997/98 rising to 7673 in 2001/02. The last figure was ...
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NewsCapita buys Percy Thomas
The architect of the £100m Welsh Millennium Centre (pictured), Percy Thomas Architects, was this week bought out of administration by Capita Symonds. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, was struck on Tuesday and cements Capita Symonds as one of the UK's top five architectural practices with 300 staff. Percy Thomas ...
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NewsLiverpool's new chapter
David Morley Architects has won a limited competition for a £10m extension to Liverpool University's library. The building will be linked by an atrium to the university's main library, designed by Sir Basil Spence in the 1970s. The extension will be contemporary in style and faced with diagonal precast concrete ...
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Housebuilders back King's warning despite share falls
Housebuilders have supported a speech by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, warning that the housing market had peaked.
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Embassy jobs delayed 10 months
Construction work on a new British embassy in Morocco and a refurbishment of the ambassador's residence in Moscow have been shelved until next April
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CBI boss sets transport target of 250bn
Digby Jones, the director-general of the CBI, has called on the government to ensure that at least £250bn of public and private money is spent on transport over the next 10 years.
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NewsA bigger splash
This modernist swimming pool, designed by Eva Jiricna Architects as an extension to a Georgian terrace house in Westminster, has been given a specialist conversion award by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The winner of the trust’s building of the year was Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee, designed ...
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Civil engineers call for urgent action over waste
The government will have to build up to 2300 waste treatment plants by 2020 to cope with Britain's growing rubbish mountain, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Aukett to design Asda's big idea
Listed architect Aukett has teamed up with retailer Asda to design a £150m mixed-use scheme in the Isle of Dogs, east London
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NewsWalking on Aire
Assael Architecture has won an international competition to design a large residential and commercial scheme on the banks of the River Aire in Leeds. The 2.5 ha site is close to Leeds' main train station and will comprise offices, restaurants, shops and 600 apartments with a large open piazza facing ...
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Inquest returns verdict of misadventure
A labourer died after he fell from the roof of a four-storey building in east London, an inquest heard on Tuesday.
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Berkeley sued for 100,000
A Court battle between Berkeley Homes and the owner of the Dover Street restaurant in central London over five allegedly defective flats is to be heard on 16 July.
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NewsRow breaks out
This extension to a terrace, by ECD Architects, is part of a £40m regeneration programme of four council estates in Tower Hamlets, east London. The design for estates, which are south of Mile End Road, is split between ECD and BPTW Architects, with Carter Clack as structural engineer, David Miles ...
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CITB deputy chairman rewarded in honours list
Peter Rogerson, deputy chairman of CITB ConstructionSkills, is one of the few in the construction industry to win an accolade in the Queen's birthday honours.
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FeaturesBeauty is but skin deep
… especially on these iconic buildings, made infamous by latent defects. The question is, why do problem projects keep getting built – and how can the industry learn from its mistakes?
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CommentA reader writes - Hobson's choices
John Hobson, until recently the man in charge of construction at the civil service, gives us his take on the future of sustainability and regulation
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The gain in panes
After seven years in development, the European Window Energy Rating System is ready to roll, and it's intended to be a better test of performance than U-values. We report on a scheme that's coming soon to a glazed area near you
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CommentWonders & blunders
Paul Burgess praises an atrium that makes the heart soar, but missed chances just make it sore. And check out the new Back Issues …
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