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NewsMorrell issues RICS ultimatum
Davis langdon partner Paul Morrell this week slammed the RICS for its "lack of respect for construction" and called for reform
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Council threatens Bath Spa legal action
Contractor Mowlem and architect Grimshaw could face legal action from Bath and North East Somerset council over the Bath Spa project.
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NewsCIPER to tackle European regs
CIPER, the construction industry’s new government forum, is to focus on ways of tackling problematic European regulations
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Construction growth hits 10-year high
The construction sector grew at its fastest rate in a decade during the first quarter of 2004, according to research by the RICS.
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NewsThe resurrection of a lost city
Four ideas have been unveiled for a structure that will do for East Anglia what Antony Gormley's Angel of the North has done for Northumberland. The project shown here, Dunwich, was devised by German architects Anne Niemann and Johannes Ingrisch to mark the drowned city of Dunwich off the Suffolk ...
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NewsUshida goes to Doha
Architect Ushida Findlay and design consultant MIMAR Consult are drawing up detailed designs of a 6500 m2 Museum of Traditional Costumes and Textiles in the capital city of Qatar, Doha. It will be built at the ancient al-Koot Fort, conserving the building's fabric but inserting a new core. Most of ...
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NewsThe rise of Liverpool
A copper-clad concave tower block designed by London architect RTKL is planned for Liverpool. It forms the centrepiece of an application for a £100m scheme from developers Ballymore Properties and Merepark. If successful, the tower, which will contain 400 flats, will be built on a vacant site behind Central Station. ...
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NewsViñoly and Urban Catalyst to bid for £2bn Docklands wharf
Signature architect Rafael Viñoly joins forces with leading developer to bid for Wood Wharf megaproject
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St Modwen to build Swindon sports village
Swindon Town Football Club has signed up Birmingham-based developer St Modwen Properties for a joint venture to deliver a new stadium and sports village on the edge of town.
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Swimming pool clarification
A report in Building (page 39, 6 February 2004) referred to the Optimum Pool, commissioned by Sport England from S&P Architects, and S&P's launch of a new swimming pool project called Swim25.
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In defence of Peabody
Your article "Dream Over" (12 March, page 18), was sensational reportage to say the least.
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Safe as a prefab house
In reply to your piece on the Peabody Trust and prefabrication, we have to move away from the chaos of a construction site towards the relative order of a factory.
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Knocking an opportunity
I hope that Wendy Coggan's remarks (Letters, 19 March) spur other RICS members to reply to our surveys.
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CommentPasta and paranoia
Rubber chicken takes in a trade fair in Bologna and discovers that the bella paese's historic love of all things beautiful extends to stoats' skulls, fossilised trees and, er, padlocks
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FeaturesRoll up the beige carpet
It's a fact that all office workers hate their offices. But what if the workspace changes beyond recognition? What if wireless devices replace phones and cafes replace desks? Well for one thing, we'd find it harder to moan about our jobs
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FeaturesEconomies of space
We look at how MacCormac Jamieson Prichard took a tiny patch of land squished between buildings at the London School of Economics and turned it into an Italian-style piazza that is now the heart of the campus.
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There's a limit to capping
The claimant, Westminster Building, tendered for building works in respect of a property owned by Mr Beckingham. The specification stated that the contract would be in the form of a JCT IFC 1998 incorporating amendments. A letter of intent dated 27 June 2002 instructed the claimant to proceed with the ...
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Laying down ground rules
New European regulations about toxic disposal and landfill mean that crucial plans to regenerate brownfield sites could go up in smoke. Now that’s hazardous waste …
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O'Rourke issues warning to industry's swordsmen
Laing O'Rourke chief executive Ray O'Rourke has warned that companies that work with a confrontational style will fail.