More news – Page 2805

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    Waste not

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Your recently examined the role compost plays in soil manufacture and decontamination (14 November, page 70)

  • Okay, let’s get this straight … here is East Barnet school, designed by Frank Shaw Associates, built by Norwest Holst and commissioned by the London borough of Barnet. Oh, and the image is courtesy of Frank Shaw Associates
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    Credit where it’s due

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    I was pleased to see our image of East Barnet school published on 5 December, page 6. As an architect interested in project delivery, I am a keen follower of your magazine

  • Comment

    Right on track

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Building Design Partnership was commissioned to undertake the masterplan for Birmingham City University on a wonderful site that will be the centrepiece of the Eastside regeneration

  • Comment

    Lets have some help, here

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Confidence in the construction sector is at rock bottom, and what construction firms badly need is a scheme that reduces the risk of doing business

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    Which way to tender?

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Two-stage tendering was invented for situations in which the client had to start building as a matter of urgency, yet retain an element of competition between contractors

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    Bravo, Bingo!

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    A short year-end note of thanks and admiration for Tony Bingham

  • Features

    Change of destination: job opportunities still abound in the Middle East

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The downturn may have hit Dubai, but other Middle Eastern markets and the booming oil and gas sectors still provide plenty of escape routes

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    Au natural

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The latest prefabricated volumetric building completed by Shepherd subsidiary Yorkon is clad vernacular style in uncoursed natural stonework and untreated cedar boarding

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    Urban regeneration industry pays tribute to Jon Ladd

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Tributes have poured in for Jon Ladd, the former chief executive of the British Urban Regeneration Association, who passed away last weekend after a short illness

  • News

    Brookfield expands in Abu Dhabi and Qatar in the Gulf

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Firm formerly known as Multiplex plans to double its £100m business in Abu Dhabi and Qatar in order to counter the slowdown in Dubai

  • News

    ‘No green light for Greenfield’

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The government has played down reports that Gordon Brown is preparing to relax rural planning laws in order to address housing shortages in the countryside

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    Heathrow rail hub to smooth path for third runway

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    A £4.5bn rail hub could be built at Heathrow airport in an attempt to offset the environmental damage caused by a third runway

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    Satellites to help China rebuild after Sichuan quake

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    An international group of engineers is working on a plan to use satellite images to measure the damage to buildings caused by the earthquake in China last May

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    Foster replaced on Kazakhstan scheme

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster + Partners is no longer working on Aldar Properties’ Abu Dhabi Plaza in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, despite being chosen as designer in November 2007

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    Latest construction appointments - 9 January 2009

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Nottingham Trent University's head of construction management is appointed RICS fellow

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    Tied into Notts

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Capita Architecture has been appointed to design the £13.1m rebuild of a Nottingham primary school as part of the city’s £90m Building Schools for the Future programme

  • News

    Strategic Forum to debate national tower crane register

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The possibility of a national register for tower cranes will top the agenda of the first meeting of the Strategic Forum’s Plant Safety Group, despite continued resistance from the Health and Safety Executive to the idea

  • News

    ODA backs down over media centre

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic Delivery Authority has backed down over plans to make the 2012 media centre a wholly temporary venue, under pressure from MPs and the London Development Agency

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    Airship-shape

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    An airship shed frame restored by Julian Harrap Architects was given grade II listing this week by culture minister Barbara Follett

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    NFB quits confederation

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has become the latest trade body to leave the Construction Confederation, following in the footsteps of the Major Contractors Group and the National Contractors Federation