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NewsLibeskind brings Eden to North
World Trade Centre architect Daniel Libeskind is working on a £75m Eden Project-style scheme in north-west England, it has emerged.
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Use Olympic standards on all public projects, urges CPA
The Construction Products Association has become the latest trade body to lobby construction minister Margaret Hodge to ensure that all public sector projects abide by best practice standards set for the 2012 Olympics.
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Features‘The more the OGC is decimated, the more celebration there will be’
The Office of Government Commerce spent the first six months of this year undergoing a review that questioned its very existence. Whether it lives or dies is unknown. What is certain is that it will never be the same again.
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FeaturesBuilding buys the popcorn
Yes, we’re branching out. Inspired by the success of ‘Building buys a pint’, we took a group from consultant WSP to see Al Gore’s eco-documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lydia Stockdale forked out for the Butterkist …
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CommentDongtan-on-Thames
THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE — Shanghai’s eco-city is creating a precedent that developments like the Thames Gateway ignore at their peril
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FeaturesThe firm that repackaged Ikea
M&E consultant GDM is transforming the furniture giant’s sustainability record
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FeaturesA league of their own
Feeling excluded from all those testosterone-fuelled corporate football matches? Lorraine Cushnie pulled on a netball bib and met some women who have taken matters into their own hands
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Why not work in . . . East Anglia
Hays Construction and Property propose a change of scenery
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NewsCrest Nicholson launches high density prefabricated brand
Components can be assembled to build units from one-bed apartments to four-bed houses
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Bellway aims to break through 7,500 unit barrier
Bellway aims to increase housing completions by 5% next year, after a rise in pre-tax profit in its end of year results.
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Gateway housing targets
The government is preparing tougher targets for the quality and quantity of housing in the Thames Gateway.
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Davis Langdon to improve specification documents
RIBA Enterprises and consultant Davis Langdon Schumann Smith (DLSS) have announced a collaborative venture to push the National Building Specification (NBS) into international markets and improve it in the UK.
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Wembley settlement in sight
Wembley National Stadium Limited and contractor Multiplex were on the verge of settling their dispute about the stadium as Building went to press.
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NewsFrom teenage lust to architecture’s grand old man
SKETCH — Vikki Miller at the Stirling prize ceremony
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Tories launch regs review
The Conservative party is conducting a review of the Building Regulations, with the intention of simplifying them if it wins the next general election.
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Willmott Dixon wins £60m five-year prisons contract
Willmott Dixon has won a five-year UK prisons contract that could bring in up to £60m of work.
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How kool is that?
Architect Rem Koolhaas has unveiled these designs for an office building in the City of London.
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FeaturesSpecifier - Regulations
SBEM, the official Part L software, was meant to make it easy to calculate the energy efficiency of any building, even ones like this. In fact, it struggles with anything more complicated than this. So what are the alternatives?