All Building articles in 19 December 2008 – Page 8
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CommentSafety blunders: Dances with death
We had an astonishing selection of entries to our health and safety blunders competition in 2008. Here is our selection of the best, which reveal how construction workers around the world laughed in the face of danger and demonstrated shocking brutality towards trees…
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Features
The tracker: Bleak midwinter
No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division
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FeaturesNothing could be better
Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going
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Swindon could become first carbon-negative town in UK
Council considers Copenhagen-style scheme as government announces plan to cap zero-carbon costs
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CommentComplete baubles
Plenty of seasonal fare here: a ghost story that Dickens would have been proud of, at least one joke worthy of a Christmas cracker, 10 Santas, and a well-earned nap in a snoozarium
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Redfern predicts TW bank deal
Analysts have said an internal email sent by Pete Redfern, Taylor Wimpey’s chief executive, to staff last week on the progress of its talks with banks has boosted expectations of a refinancing deal in the new year.
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BAA break-up
BAA could be forced to sell Stansted, Edinburgh and Gatwick airports after the Competition Commission confirmed proposals to break up the company.
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CommentWith the pope’s blessing: Awarding interest
Usury may be a sin, but that doesn’t mean it’s against the law. But then, working out just what the law does say about charging interest can be a bit of a poser …
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CommentBuilding buys a pint... for Quattro Design Architects
This must be some sort of a record. No, not the drinks tally, which is tame by some standards, but the distance that tonight’s group has travelled. Representatives from architect Quattro Design have made the trip all the way from the West Country – Bristol and Gloucester to be exact.
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NewsWill Alsop: Black, white and read
Will Alsop has come up with a characteristically cheeky design for a newspaper stand in Allied London’s £1.5bn Spinningfields development in Manchester
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CommentSleeping through it all
When we published our third issue of this year with the cover line “The slump of 2008”, few of us could have predicted just how quickly the water would rise around the construction industry.
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NewsBourne again
Sheppard Robson has received planning permission for the £40m Lansdowne campus at Bournemouth & Poole College.
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Profit halves at Shepherd after Nottingham Trinity delay
Pre-tax profit at Shepherd Group has almost halved after a £14m hit on a delayed scheme in Nottingham.
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Eco-town champion admits programme is likely to fail
David Lock rounds on ‘plotters’ and ‘government screw-up’ for imminent demise of schemes
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Comment
Adjudicators jurisdiction
The CaseDeerglen (Jersey) (“Deerglen”) was the main contractor employed to design and build a six-storey office building known Liberty Wharf Phase three in Jersey. Deerglen engaged Air Design (Kent) (“Air Design”) as a subcontractor to carry out the mechanical services work for the project. A written agreement for “basebuild” works ...
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Bath Spa legal action
Carillion and Grimshaw are being sued for £21m by Bath and North-east Somerset council over the Bath Spa project.
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CommentTricks with contracts: PFI and the Construction Act
A draft bill to outlaw ‘pay when certified’ clauses leaves PFI lawyers wondering how to secure reasonable cash flow for clients. Here are some ideas
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NewsAccused firms left in limbo as OFT delays inquiry results
Contractors lobby for ‘reasonable’ penalties as watchdog holds back details of fines for up to six months
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Fears for future as 600 trainees are laid off
Training body ConstructionSkills has revealed that 610 apprentices from its 11,000-strong programme have been laid off since July
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£425m pricetag agreed for Shard
The developer of London Bridge’s Shard tower is understood to have agreed a price of about £425m for the scheme with main contractor Mace