Goodbye, 2005

1 Can you name the structures?

A

B

C

D

2 We’ve created a monster

Three faces that have appeared in Building with impressive frequency over the past year, but who are they?

From top to bottom: A, B, C

3 Some projects run more smoothly than others …

a) Where did Portsmouth council’s David Greenhalgh get stuck?

b) For what could the residents of the CASPAR modular housing in Leeds blame the weather?

c) Where did the trains stop because of a supermarket on the line?

d) What links the Insane Driving Dimension Club, an ice ballet version of the Nutcracker and a graffitied statue celebrating the 1896 Olympics?

e) Who did former construction minister Nigel Griffiths describe as “the client from hell”?

4 The reform the regs round

Designers struggling to come to terms with the new energy regulation in Part L may come across unfamiliar acronyms. And typing them into a search engine doesn’t always help … Can you identify the construction bodies appearing in the draft rules that share an acronym with the following?

a) Model Power Boat Association

b) Forth Estuary Transport Authority

c) International Council of Museums

d) Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage

e) The International Molinological Society of America

5 Who said what?

a) A female colleague probably put her finger on it when she said neither she nor her friends would work on a site due to the effect it might have on their nails

b) I’m trying to instill cultural change in the company. You’ve got to remember that John Gains was there for a very long time, and there has been very little change

c) Our deadline is the end of January 2006, and we will complete the project by that date

d) Seven years – the time needed to construct Crossrail – is a long time in a man’s life. Seven years of hell – 24 hours a day, seven days a week – is a lot of hell