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CommentHansom: Childminding
This week government officials babysit their ministers, architects make sure we mind our p’s and q’s, multibillion-pound rail projects scream and shout - and Building practises its keepie-uppies
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CommentWhat if everything we did was wrong?
For example, we use much more material than we need to keep a building up, and we follow codes that make absurd demands on design. Fortunately, there’s a simple remedy
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CommentWonders & blunders with Maxwell Hutchinson
Maxwell Hutchinson dreads the decline of a health centre in Islington, but is sickened by a trip down Farringdon Road
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CIPS: Activity at 32-month high
May was construction’s strongest month since September 2007, according to the latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
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Terry Farrell to masterplan 70-acre Earl’s Court site
Terry Farrell & Partners has won a competition to masterplan 70 acres of land on the site of the Earl’s Court exhibition centre in west London
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NewsNewcastle student scheme: Downing one
George Downing Construction, the in-house contractor of property group Downing, has started work on a £30m student development in Newcastle
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NewsGermany scores a hat-trick!
Even before it completed the central station redevelopment in Berlin in time for the 2006 World Cup, German architect von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (GMP) had opened an office in South Africa with a view to gaining work on the 2010 finals.
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Aecom bags Brazilian clean-up job
Aecom’s UK planning and design arm is set to masterplan the redevelopment of São Paulo’s crime-ridden Nova Luz district, making it the latest British firm to benefit from Brazil’s construction boom
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HBF raises fears of housebuilding hiatus
The Home Builders Federation has warned that there could be a hiatus in housebuilding after South Oxfordshire council moved to scrap housing targets in line with government advice.
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NewsWolf whistle
Wolverhampton Wanderers has unveiled plans for a £40m redevelopment of its Molineux ground.
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Latest construction appointments: 04 June 2010
Brian Stewart has joined building consultant Bidwells as a part-time consultant, advising on public engagement and consultation.
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FeaturesLow-energy retrofit: Heating a house with a towel rail
What you’re looking at is a pioneering project that shows how a low-energy retrofit can make deep cuts in carbon emissions from social housing. Readers of Building’s website will be able to follow progress on the Passivhaus diary
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Housing mandarin bags £180k
Salary details released by the Cabinet Office show that housing mandarin Richard McCarthy earns up to £180,000 a year.
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Tribal sells Nightingale Architects for £13m
Public sector services consultant Tribal has sold Nightingale Architects for £13.1m to the UK subsidiary of Canadian design group IBI
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Ex-Redrow boss moves to Gladedale
Neil Fitzsimmons, the former boss of housebuilder Redrow, has become chief executive of Gladedale.
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NewsBlow me down: Nottingham University
Designed by Make, this £7m structure is the largest straw-bale building in the UK
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NewsOxford plus Viñoly equals ...
Planning permission has been granted for Oxford University’s new £70m maths building, designed by Rafael Viñoly
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FeaturesAndrew Chisholm: Career break and back
One year ago, Andrew Chisholm shut the surveying firm he had spent 15 years building up, then took a seven-month break. But now he’s back with a new company – and a lot of his old staff
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FeaturesCountry focus: Romania
The downturn hit Romania hard but it’s in a reasonable position to recover
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CityWATCH world affairs and local fears
Although it had other things on its mind - a rather tense Middle East and Korean peninsular, not to mention the continuing threat of national bankruptcy in southern Europe - the City still had time to welcome the proposed takeover of BSS by Travis Perkins