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  • The stained glass facade is “rather wearing, particularly from the inside”, but does offer impressive views of the Whitechapel Road
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    Lovely idea...

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    … shame about the council’s cost-cutting hit men. Gus Alexander takes a stroll around Whitechapel’s Idea Store, the David Adjaye-designed library-cum-IT-superstore, and laments what might have been

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    Projects update: health and safety

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The seconds following a site accident can make all the difference between life and death, which is why the Red Cross has set up a programme of construction-specific first aid training days

  • 1, The Spanish winery is capped by five barrel vaults that adopt the structurally efficient parabolic form pioneered by Antoni Gaudì
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    Vintage Rogers

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;

  • The demolition of the Compton Arms has stalled … so all building control inspector Trevor Hall can do is tape up the entrance.
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    Out of control

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    In the week that the RICS lent its support to Building’s Reform the Regs campaign, Sarah Richardson spent a day with Leeds building control to witness the problems at ground level

  • Elliot Lipton: bringing to bear the expertise of the commercial developer
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    The inheritors

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.

  • a small fraction of the people who’ve designed, planned, engineered and built the link
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    With this issue...

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    ....of Building we are publishing a Channel Tunnel Rail Link supplement.

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    Lead times

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    This quarter Mace finds many lead times unchanged, but on the brink of increases next year as strong order books put the pressure on …

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    Spotlight on toilet pods

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Gardiner & Theobald throw the spotlight on modular toilet pods

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    BAA sets out £9.5bn spend including new Heathrow T2

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    With the announcement of ‘Heathrow East’ for the 2012 Olympics, construction boss Bayliss looks at his in-tray

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    Balfour Beatty regains top spot with £395m contracts

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Roads contract worth £171m helps contractor re-establish itself at top of October’s monthly league

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    The art of science

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    For a state-of-the-art interactive science centre in the German town of Wolfsburg, Saxony, Zaha Hadid has come up with a futuristic magic box designed to awaken curiosity and the desire for discovery.

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    Pay benchmark for Olympics

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    THE TUC is to use Wembley stadium and Heathrow Terminal 5, among other large projects, to benchmark the terms and conditions of Olympic contracts.

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    Lost at sea

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Lost Town, one of four Landmark East projects sponsored by the East of England Development Agency, has switched sites to Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

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    RICS pushes for EU recognition for surveyors

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The RICS is to push for greater freedom for UK building surveyors to work in mainland Europe.

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    Toon tower

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Reid Architecture has unveiled this design for an £8.2 m control tower at Newcastle Airport.

  • China prices: The roof of the Beijing Olympic Stadium, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Arup Sport, is being redesigned to cut costs
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    London Olympic team sets aside £275m for stadium

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Figure used in bid presentation is revealed for the first time, but Beijing stadium architect predicts price will rise

  • Staff will be transferred to Babtie from KBR’s main office in Surrey
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    KBR set to offload civils consultancy arm

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root is poised to sell its civil engineering consultancy arm to fellow American engineer Jacobs Babtie.

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    Midlands contractor Thomas Vale breaks £100m barrier

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Midlands contractor Thomas Vale reported that it had broken through the £100m-turnover barrier in its latest annual results.

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    Tribal posts healthy interims

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Tribal Group has posted improved interim results for the six months ended 30 September.

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    Mansell promotes Waite to managing director

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Mansell has promoted executive director Steve Waite to the post of managing director.Waite, who has been at the contractor for 35 years, takes over from Mike Peasland next month. Peasland in turn takes over from Alistair Wivell, who is retiring from the post of group managing director of Balfour Beatty, ...