All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 600
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Archive TitlesSo, how tall is the Eiffel Tower?*
Some of the industry’s finest minds gathered together to battle it out in the inaugural QS Quiz last week, held to celebrate the launch of QS News. But who were the winners and who were the also-rans?
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Great Eastern
This £26m development in east London for Toynbee Housing Association won planning permission on 19 January. The scheme includes shops, cafes and homes. A total of 160 dwellings will be created, including homes for shared ownership, rent and key workers. The scheme was designed by architect Stock Woolstencroft in collaboration ...
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Archive TitlesLend Lease wins DWP job
The Office of Government and Commerce has awarded Lend Lease Projects a project management framework agreement, after Bovis Lend Lease staff made 22% savings on a four-year programme refurbishing job centres for the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Dudley to retain its stock – and Mansfield set to do same
One of the largest local authorities in England has decided to keep its housing stock, in order to meet the decent homes standard.
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Drummed up
William Sutton Housing Association resident Luke Frost (far left) was initiated to the sounds of African drumming when musician Bongo Bert (left) visited the Sutton Play Forum. Bongo Bert was invited to the forum to introduce percussion instruments to the young people of the area. The forum offers weekly crafts ...
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Medina leads Isle of Wight drugs swoop
The Isle of Wight made history of an unwelcome kind last week: it closed its first suspected crack house.
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Dont throw stones
This glass sculpture at the Ryde Foyer on the Isle of Wight is featured in a new guide on public art. The guide, to be published next month, examines projects that aim to tackle social exclusion by involving residents in commissioning. It was written by Aston Housing Consultancy and sponsored ...
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Let’s cut them down to size
Isn’t it strange how stringent regulation applies to most sectors – except government itself
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Contracts
Museum’s new siteThe Natural History Museum has hired Turner & Townsend as QSs on the £40m Darwin Centre Phase 2 development. Work will commence in August 2005 and is expected to last 18 months. Rick Mather & Associates are the master planners and the architect is CF Moller.PCM’s nuclear dealProject ...
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Archive TitlesGive us a new construction ministry, RICS urges parties
Pre-election survey reveals that 92% of QSs feel industry is poorly represented within Government
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Archive TitlesConcept moves to expand its empire
The project management firm goes on a recruiting drive to win PFI work, which should quadruple its turnover
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Archive TitlesIt’s time to put your clients first
QSs should stop obsessing about procurement, according to Colin Wyatt, a senior partner at Gardiner & Theobald who retires this week. He warned that procurement methods on construction projects were being emphasised to the detriment of other important issues, such as good relations between and within project teams and how ...
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Archive TitlesNew chief for White Young Green
Multidisciplinary-listed firm White Young Green, which employs both project managers and QSs, this week appointed a new boss. Richard McCaffrey, 53, will take up the chief operating officer post, a new position in the firm, with effect from 1 July 2005.
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Community wardens starved of cash as councils switch tactics
New crime-fighting initiatives lead to closure of RSL warden schemes in Bristol and Stoke
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Archive TitlesCapital office market recovers
QSs are working on a slew of new office schemes planned for construction this year in central London.
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Archive TitlesLabour promises commission to boost rural housing
The Labour party pledged on Saturday to create a special commission to help provide more affordable housing in rural areas, writes Sonia Soltani.
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Ujima to study how BME landlords will make efficiency savings
London-based Ujima Housing Association is funding a project to identify the challenges faced by black and minority-ethnic associations in meeting the government’s efficiency agenda.
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Election blues
In an election campaign marked by its lack of vibrancy, there has been little mention of an industry that accounts for 6.3% of total jobs in England. Much has been made of housing (there always is), but the three main parties don’t mention our world class managers or internationally famed ...
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Yorkshire’s ex-mining villages still blighted by poor health and housing, says report
A survey has found that the wives of former miners are in far worse health than the rest of the population
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Union in bid to save Glasgow concierges jobs
Union leaders launched talks with Glasgow Housing Association this week in a bid to safeguard the jobs of hundreds of concierges working in high-rise blocks set for demolition.