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Foster to design third Ground Zero tower
Architect Foster and Partners has been appointed to design a 65-storey tower on the World Trade Centre site.
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NewsOld Hall renewed
Developer English Cities Fund has submitted a planning application for the second phase of its landmark St Paul’s Square development on Old Hall Street, Liverpool.
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Three ‘big hitters’ join English Partnerships
Regeneration agency English Partnerships has recruited three “big hitters” to its board from the financial and development sectors.
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Berkeley Homes team scoops £750m Ferrier Estate deal
Greenwich council picks consortium to tackle rundown estate after hesitating for almost six months
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NewsOffice hours
Developer Stanhope has received planning consent for the final stage of its Chiswick Park office development in west London.
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Public sector clients team up to tackle issue of delays
Procurement problems will be main focus of the newly launched Public Sector Construction Clients’ Forum
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NewsSea breeze
Developer Redrow Homes has delivered this five-storey residential development on the seafront in Porthcawl, South Wales, designed by Cardiff architects Stride Treglown Davies.
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Southwark’s big plans
I am writing to correct an impression that may have been made by your article on the Beetham Tower proposal (9 December).
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A simple solution
In his article “A fat lot of good” (2 Decembe), Rudi Klein rightfully complains that adjudication has become too expensive to be appropriate for the small value disputes that it was intended to resolve.
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Yule’s tidings
Perhaps only a legal man could be so outrageous in his opinion but at the same time completely miss the essence of the NEC (Ian Yule, 18 November). The whole ethos of the contract is based upon communication, collaboration and co-operation centred on timely and effective good management from all ...
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Cannes the hard way
If any of your readers are keen cyclists and are planning to go to MIPIM, they might like to know I am organising a charity ride that will do the 920 miles in three days riding in relays.
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Victorian fiction
Tony Bingham (18 November) once more goes to the heart of a big problem for the building industry: that it is still incapable of delivering a building in which design and integration of services are fully co-ordinated.
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Wonder or …?
I would nominate Zaha Hadid’s Wolfsburg Science Centre, featured in your “In pictures” article on 2 December, page 24, as a strong candidate for a future “blunder”.
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Rab lets rip
I should know by now not to read Colin Harding’s regular attacks on architects as they just wind me up, but he cannot go unchallenged.
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NewsDavid Wilson’s tagging system offers clues to family living
David Wilson Homes has unveiled the results of a study in which it electronically tagged the residents of one of its research homes for six months.
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Tenants’ veto threatens Edinburgh housing plan
The delivery of up to 10,000 affordable homes in Edinburgh is under threat after tenants voted to reject a housing stock transfer.
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NewsMilton Keynes growth area makes vital breakthrough
East Northamptonshire council approves Bee Bee Developments’ application for 395 ha scheme in Corby
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Energy sappers
The method of calculating energy performance in homes – SAP – has been updated for 2005. Meanwhile a new version for non-dwellings is being developed – and it’s a much more complicated affair, says Paul Davidson of BRE
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European lead
The European Performance of Buildings Directive comes into force on 1 January 2006 and its stringent energy measures will keep building owners, tenants and property lawyers on their toes. David Strong of BRE looks at the small print
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Healthcare
This weeks Specifier checks up on the world of health, including the best and most cost-effective methods of tackling superbugs, plus products fit for a 21st-century hospital. But first, the story behind Europes first ever modular radiotherapy centre for cancer patients, which opens this month in London