All articles by Sarah Richardson – Page 11
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CommentSchools construction: plenty to fight for
It was difficult to know what kind of atmosphere to expect at this year’s BSEC.
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NewsEC Harris reveals plan to double size in four years
Consultant eyes acquisitions in China, US and UK to fuel $1bn-turnover ambition
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NewsMcAlpine undercuts Mace in Heron scheme bid
Sir Robert McAlpine has emerged as a rival bidder to Mace and Brookfield on the Heron scheme at Barbican in London, amid increasing competition over cost
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FeaturesCharter 284 Education: The economic case for investing in schools
Sarah Richardson puts the arguments in favour of continuing the drive to renew every school in the country
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Legal challenge stalls £200m LSC payment
The Learning and Skills Council is delaying allocating £200m of funding for stalled college projects because of a legal challenge over its handling of the building programme, writes Sarah Richardson
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NewsBrookfield and Mace vie for £190m Heron scheme
Contractors thought to be frontrunners for 35-storey tower next to Barbican in City of London
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NewsSchool design is key to pupil success, say headteachers
Exclusive survey is warning to political parties that cutting education investment will harm pupils
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NewsDramatic exit of the year
Lee Polisano, the founder of the UK arm of US architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), left in September to set up his own firm PLP Architecture
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NewsCampaign victory
In February, the Health and Safety Executive finally caved in to demand for a national register of safety checks on tower cranes
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NewsHow the state helped – and didn’t
The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true
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NewsA green revolution
The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama
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NewsAn industry of ill-repute
The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms
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NewsHanging together
Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall
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NewsA Right royal row
Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April
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Quotes of the year
"The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...
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NewsA trail of destruction
The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties