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Ryding with Rab
I couldn’t agree more with Rab Bennetts’ call for an accepted, industry-wide methodology for measuring the performance of buildings (11 February, page 15).
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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FeaturesWhat’s their big idea now?
Next week is the fifth anniversary of the London Eye hoisting its first passengers 130 m above the capital. Its designers David Marks and Julia Barfield talk about their battle to ensure the Eye’s future, their next height-defying design and why they are not millionaires … yet.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase ‘close to the flightpath’, the team building Heathrow’s new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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NewsCity responds cautiously to Taylor Woodrow results
Housebuilder reports 30% rise in pre-tax profit but analysts note ‘disappointing’ UK performance
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United Utilities awards £900m water contract
United Utilities has selected three parties to carve up £900m of work across north-west England.
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WYG reports 44% profit rise
Support services group White Young Green this week said that last year’s takeover spree pushed half-year pre-tax profit up 44%.
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Government to impose strict rules on all public contracts
OGC prepares dramatic shake-up of regulations – and promises to pay contractors on time
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NewsZaha’s French connection
Architect Zaha Hadid has designed this headquarters for shipping firm CMA CGM in the southern French city of Marseilles.
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NewsCITB handed out £126m in grants in 2004
CITB-ConstructionSkills paid out nearly £126m in grants to contractors last year, with Carillion, the recipient of the largest sum, being paid nearly £4m
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John Redwood: How I saved the pound sterling
John Redwood single handedly saved the pound, according to the man himself in an interview with Building this week.
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Wilson Bowden’s profit up 16%
Housebuilder and developer Wilson Bowden this week revealed a solid set of annual results but sounded caution about the short-term future of the market.
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NewsJudge slams construction manager in landmark case
Industry experts react to £10m court ruling against Laing by defending beleaguered procurement method
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NewsMultiplex pledges to finish Wembley a month early
Global boss says job will be done by Christmas, despite previous delays and death threats to operatives
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NewsA technical challenge: Multiplex still to find cable solution
Multiplex is currently working out how to execute one of the most critical operations on the Wembley national stadium project, to be carried out in May
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NewsSniper threat may be hoax
Multiplex boss Noel Henderson said he thought a threat to blackmail the contractor out of million of pounds could be a hoax,
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NewsSuspended aviation
Architect HOK International has completed its visionary designs for the AirSpace Project at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, in Cambridgeshire.
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Failed appeal boosts cartel clampdown
The Office of Fair Trading’s drive to root out price cartels in the construction industry has had a boost after two West Midlands roofing contractors lost appeals against their convictions
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CITB: Industry must have say in vocational education
CITB-ConstructionSkills has welcomed the government’s response to the Tomlinson report into secondary education, but insisted that the industry must be involved in drafting vocational training plans.
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NewsGriffiths: Every death in construction is avoidable
Minister challenges industry to eliminate all site deaths as public sector is targeted with mandatory safety policy