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NewsGovernment backs down over local planning powers
Housebuilders claim victory in row over planning guidance, as ODPM launches two initiatives for homeownership 11
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Fears over sustainability codes
The government could water down its new code for sustainable buildings, a leading sustainability expert has claimed
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HVCA threatens to quit CORGI
A leading industry trade association has threatened to pull out of CORGI, the gas safety body, after accusing it of acting beyond its authority
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RICS to issue e-tendering code of practice
The RICS is set to issue a code of practice for electronic tendering in a bid to address the industry’s poor take-up of the method.
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NewsLavender Hill job
Architect Colwyn Foulkes & Partners has completed a £2.5m office and residential scheme at Lavender Hill, south London.
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NewsA better class of brute
A building for the University of Westminster has opened its doors to students.
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Freedom of Information Act set to expose bid rigging
Clients and contractors may be obliged to divulge tendering data that could leave them open to legal challenges
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Jarvis issued with £175,000 non-payment writ
Troubled contractor Jarvis is being sued by Aedas Architects for non-payment of a series of fees from projects undertaken in 2003.
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School’s sports day
Fundamental Architectural Inclusion, an organisation based in east London, has teamed up with a pupil from a school in the borough of Newham to draw up designs for an Olympic aquatic centre.
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Government set to launch quality mark replacement
DTI wants to replace failed anti-cowboy initiative with scheme run by trade bodies before general election
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FeaturesThe experts’ view: Think tank
What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, Building assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...
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FeaturesA pain in the back pocket
Want to protect your cement workers from a nasty form of dermatitis? Well, now you can, with the launch of the European chromium VI directive. But where it stops itching the sector’s collective skin, it’ll start hurting pretty badly elsewhere …
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NewsNew boss for York firm
David Armitage, MD of The York Handmade Brick Company, has been appointed chairman of the Better Brickwork Alliance. He replaces John White, whose term of tenure elapsed in September last year. David recently made a guest appearance on Radio 4’s Midweek programme with Libby Purves.
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The Brick Awards continue to thrive
Last year we not only had record entries and attendance at the Grosvenor House but also, more importantly, a perceptible increase in the quality of the buildings.
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FeaturesHighly commendable
These are a few of the stunning brick buildings that just missed out on a prize at the 2004 Brick Awards – all of which deserve a showing in these pages …Angel WatersideAngel Waterside is the result of a winning entry in a 1998 design competition by Pollard Thomas Edwards ...
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FeaturesA learning curve
Hopkins’ horseshoe-shaped knowledge and media centre – otherwise known as the Forum in Norwich – is a resounding success that overcame an irregular-shaped site and an imposing neighbour …
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FeaturesToxteth’s technicolour dreamboat
Forget the Beatles and the Fourth Grace – Liverpool has a new icon in the shape of the colourful media centre Toxteth TV
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Doing as the Romans did
Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects casts his mind back – way back – to when brick was used for the world’s greatest buildings …
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FeaturesThe secret’s out
Once forgotten, dilapidated and unloved, the Walled Garden at Scampston Hall has been given a remarkable makeover and thrown open its doors to the public – and to critical acclaim
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Bond patterns in brickwork
In his first article on brick bonds, Mike Hammett discusses the characteristics of basic configurations