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Foreign Office boxes clever
Foreign Office Architects has won a competition to design the BBC's £22m music centre at White City, west London. The project, dubbed the Music Box, is expected to open in 2006. It will house the BBC Symphony Orchestra and provide two state-of-the-art studios. It will also have an audience capacity ...
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Subcontractors team up to recover Ballast losses
Subcontractors owed large sums by failed contractor Ballast are continuing to join forces in an attempt to recover their money.
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NewsPrescott gives go-ahead to Shard of Glass
London Bridge Tower, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, has finally been granted planning approval by deputy prime minister John Prescott.
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Sainsburys sues WSP over store damage
Supermarket chain J Sainsbury has issued a writ against consulting engineer WSP over a superstore on the south coast of England.
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NewsCurtain up
England's oldest working theatre, the Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, has been restored at a cost of £1.5m. The original Georgian auditorium, built in 1788, has been redecorated to appear as it did two centuries ago.The redesign was by Allen Tod Architecture of Leeds, the refurbishment by ...
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Four firms bank on Barclays tower fit-out
Four contractors are competing for the £25m fit-out of the 34-storey Barclays Bank tower in London Docklands.
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RICS: Homes getting noisier
Noise pollution in houses has increased over the past 80 years as they have become smaller, claims the RICS.
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John Richards, champion of prefabrication, dies aged 73
Richards was chairman of multidisciplinary consultant Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners in Edinburgh from 1983 to 1986.
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DTI helps foreign workers avoid exploitation
The Government has published guidance for Portuguese workers in the UK explaining their working rights amid concerns that some of them have been exploited.
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NewsCentre stage
Gaunt Francis Architects has unveiled its £7m refurbishment of Richard Seifert's 1960s London landmark, Centrepoint. Ground-floor curtain walling and a smart reception area replace an open ramp descending into a car park. The forecourt over Tottenham Court Road Tube station is to be transformed into a public square. The client ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Simon Allford raises a cheer for a much-loved oval but is unable to celebrate one of the world's most famous squares
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The good book
Professional negligence claims are often of the 'there but for the grace of God' variety, so a guide on the subject may help you swing things in your favour
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Losing made easy
Designers who contravene health and safety legislation can be pursued by the criminal courts or by any number of aggrieved parties through the civil courts
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Broker's notes: Wilson Bowden enter the scrum
Lucky swines. It seems half the UK construction industry is off sunning itself on the other side of the world.
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NewsFurther and better particulars of … Keith Lovelock, Chief executive and chairman, McCarthy & Stone
In the second of a monthly series on industry executives who steer headline-hitting companies, we meet Keith Lovelock, the unfamiliar face of retirement home specialist McCarthy & Stone
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Here's the pitch
Hi there Meller, Building magazine here. This is the second of a monthly column giving smaller firms the chance to explain who they are and what makes them stand out from the crowd.
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Brussels to thrash out PFI compromise
Members of the European Council and European Parliament are to meet next month over a compromise text of a European directive that could otherwise outlaw the government's PFI programme.
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NewsBavarian nights
British architect Michael Wilford & Partners has completed the £14m second phase of building material manufacturer Sto's production plant at Weizen in Germany's Black Forest. Dynamic forms and vivid colours resemble the famous original phase designed by Wilford and completed in 1997. The two buildings comprise a silo tower containing ...
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Lead times
Feedback from suppliers reveals a general fall-off in demand, but according to Mace, confidence is expected to return next year.
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Spotlight on shopfitting
Market overview Shopfitting embraces virtually every trade of the construction industry at a micro level; it represents a specialist component due to the individual nature of fixtures and fittings manufactured to bespoke standards.The market is changing and becoming more orientated towards customer service, with partnering arrangements common on major roll-out ...