All Building articles in 2005 issue 01 – Page 2
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Comment
Jack’s blunder
Jack Pringle’s comments (3 December, page 34) demonstrate how out of touch with reality the RIBA remains in 2004, with its obsession for style before function.
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Comment
The name’s Bond … retention bond
A number of British Constructional Steelwork Association members may choose to give bonds in place of accepting cash retention (26 November, page 63), but I hope you don’t think I’m being too pedantic if I remind you that this is no longer a BCSA matter but one for individual companies.
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News
CABE brings new faces to design review panel
CABE has revamped its design review panel in the wake of strong government criticism of its alleged lack of accountability.
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CommentRule Britannia
How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.
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Mr BTEC responds
As a course director (“Mr BTEC”) at the College of West Anglia in Norfolk, I would like to reassure readers that Della Madgwick’s unfortunate experience, recounted in her letter of 3 December, need not be universal.
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NewsCostain chief wins top honour
Stuart Doughty, chief executive of Costain Group, was among the construction industry figures on the New Year’s honours list
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CommentCome closer, my dears …
Want to know the future? Then cross our very own legal astrologer’s palm with silver as he gazes into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for 2005
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Design contests to set standard for Thames Gateway site
The architects of a brand new community in east London, to be built as part of the Thames Gateway project, will be chosen in a series of design competitions.
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Four contractors in race for Murdoch printing plants
Bovis Lend Lease, Carillion, Sir Robert McAlpine and Amec are to bid for £300m contract next month
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Comment
The price of CSCS
I read with amazement that the CSCS scheme is £5m in the red (3 December, page 9).
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FeaturesCutter’s way
John Oughton, the mandarin in charge of government procurement, is determined to slash the time and money spent on the bidding process. But can he overcome a creaky civil service and an overstretched construction industry?
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Ritchie to design Shakespearean theatre
Architect Ian Ritchie has been asked by the Royal Shakespeare Company to design a prefabricated temporary theatre at its headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
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CommentThe dismal profession
How has architecture come to be such a regulated, disciplined, controlled and artistically emasculated business? And what can be done to save it?
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Comment
Get ’em young
Andrew Williams’ article “The QS’ apprentice” (19 November, page 33) raises some interesting issues about how we train future practitioners, and will no doubt provoke much debate.
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News
Specialist engineers lobby for specialist minister
The Specialist Engineering Contractors Group has called for future construction ministers to be appointed at minister of state level.
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The opportunity to get it right
The rebuilding operation in South-east Asia is an opportunity to create an environment that allows people to survive should another tsunami strike
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NewsScotland’s tallest tower gets the green light
Glasgow council grants planning permission for Cooper Cromar’s 39-storey, £100m Elphinstone Place
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Go-ahead for PFI hospitals
A five-year project to redevelop five Manchester hospitals has been approved after the £380m required for the scheme was secured.
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NewsHarbour lights
Kier Build, the major projects division of Kier Group, has been awarded a £35m project to design and build a 15,800 m2 headquarters for HBOS Financial Services at the Bristol Harbourside development.
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