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FeaturesFight for the skies
Building’s campaign to prevent crane collapse is coming up to its first anniversary. Here, Olivia Boyd recalls the tragedies that triggered it, and looks at whether our skylines are any safer now
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CommentRule Britannia
There is cause to celebrate, because – despite efforts to prove otherwise – ours is still a country of mad dogs, prudish, tea-gulping Englishmen and the best, if not cleverest, eco-warriors in the world
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FeaturesOne with nature
Landscape and structure meld into one in German architect’s 3deluxe’s first permanent building
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Features‘Perversely, some see us as a burden’
Project managers are the fastest growing force in construction but also one of the most divisive. Do they expertly pull the strings or tangle projects in knots? Stephen Kennett canvassed the opinions of some well-placed, if occasionally exasperated, observers
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CommentFight fire with sprinklers
I object to some of the comments made by Paul Timmins regarding the Local Government Association’s call for sprinklers to be fitted to all new buildings (16 November, page 36).
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Comment
High standard
The criticism of the new RIBA Standard Agreement 2007 by Ian Yule (23 November, page 59) is inaccurate and self-serving.
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Competition comment
The quote in your article “Choose Wisely” (16 November, page 72) was inaccurate – we had won the RIBA’s Brooks Road Low Rise housing competition run for Newham council.
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£25m Sweett war chest
Consultant Cyril Sweett has built up a £25m acquisitions war chest, Dean Webster, the chief executive, revealed this week.
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Greater London Authority attacks ‘mad’ housing bill clause
Developers and councils may be able to use a a clause in the Housing and Regeneration Bill to avoid building social rented housing on their sites, according to Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Authority.
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Housing growth areas
The government is to spend £732m on housing growth areas outside the Thames Gateway and designated “growth points” between 2008 and 2011.
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Vaux brewery offer
Urban Regeneration Company Sunderland Arc has made an offer to buy the controversial former Vaux Brewery site in the city from Tesco.
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Swan refurbishment
Swan Housing Group has been selected by Newham council to deliver a £55m PFI project to refurbish 1,400 houses in Forest Gate, east London.
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Ask in Manchester
Commercial development firm Ask Developments has secured a £20.5m deal to develop the 20-acre site of the Central Spine scheme in central Manchester.
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Help from Lloyds
LIoyds TSB has appointed Andrew Moorfield as managing director of housebuilding and building materials to lead a team that helps businesses with their financial needs.
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Homes in York
Planning permission has been granted for 154 homes in York designed by John Thompson and Partners.
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CommentA no brainer
Less than 10% of construction firms train apprentices and only eight of the 63 largest companies offer regular employment to an apprentice through ConstructionSkills.
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NewsEdens Edge
Grimshaw this week revealed the design for the £70m dome known as The Edge at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
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Government reveals plans for giant prisons
The government plans to build three giant “Titan” prisons by 2014, it said in a report published on Wednesday.
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NewsMedical campus gets the all clear
Plans for a biomedical campus in Cambridge have been given the green light.