More news – Page 2501
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Dining and designing
Buildings are consumed by the eye in the same way that food is consumed by the organs of digestion. And in both cases, the important thing is that they’re tasty
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Building buys a pint... for Ryder
Tonight’s jaunt happens to coincide with London’s tube strike, so just getting to the venue presents a challenge
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Self-harming architects
If architects have any time left over after baffling their novice clients, they ought to spend it explaining that it makes sense to pay them what their work is actually worth
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Consider the Australians
Ty Goddard has been looking at schools Downunder, and he has some rather good news for everyone involved in designing new schools in this country...
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'I will not be taken for granted': BAA's boss on frameworks
...or to put it another way, BAA’s five-year framework is just a large feather bed, and the military brain behind its new procurement policy wants contractors to fight for their work
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The one and only: using the NEC for public projects
The Office of Government Commerce has decreed that only one form of contract be used for all public work. But how did it come that conclusion? Well, that’s a good question
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Sustainability: Water efficiency
Does making an investment in water efficiency measures ever pay back? Isabel McAllister and David Sutton of Cyril Sweett present the business case
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Escos: One of our team is missing
Whatever happened to energy service companies, responsible for on-site renewables? Their near-disappearance is bad news for low-carbon development
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Legal energy: clean coal power stations
Clean coal power stations have been lauded as the next big thing in energy generation, but what exactly is involved in building them?
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Legal energy: nuclear power stations
Paul Cowan A nuclear power station is about the hardest project it is possible to undertake. Here are the legal implications
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Legal energy: alliancing
Alliancing has been little used as a procurement method in the UK to date, but experience overseas shows it can deliver projects economically and on time
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Great and good: Building's terrace reception
Industry and politics met and mingled at Building’s 2009 terrace reception – interrupted at regular intervals by division bells as the House of Commons elected its new speaker
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Media centre gets go-ahead
The revamped design for the 2012 media centre has been approved by the Olympic planning committee
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Bouygues and O’Rourke join forces to take on Crossrail
Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke have agreed to team up to bid for work on the £16bn Crossrail scheme, signalling a strengthening of ties between the two firms
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Safest year yet for construction
Construction fatalities have hit a record low, figures released today by the Health and Safety Executive have shown
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London station upgrade delay
Transport for London has deferred until after 2017 work on 50 of the station upgrades to be carried out by the Metronet consortium before it fell into receivership
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Court drama
Try Construction has launched an attack against fellow defendant FB Ellmer in the legal row over the Wimbledon media centre
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Government may launch central contractors' framework
Contractors hoping to secure a hefty share of government work could be forced to vie for a place on a new framework as part of a drive to centralise public procurement
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The victorious BIG: BIG's design for Tallinn town hall
Danish architect BIG has won a competition to design a town hall in Tallinn, Estonia in collaboration with British engineer Adams Kara Taylor
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Industry body for small builders mooted
Talks are under way to form an industry group to represent the interests of smaller builders