All ɫTV articles in 04 December 2009 – Page 6
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Goggle-box: Ron Arad's shopping centre in Belgium
Ron Arad Associates’ Médiacité shopping and entertainment centre in Liège, Belgium, has opened to the public
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Pilgrims’ rest: Darb-Al-Khalil in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This is the corner block of a 5.8ha development known as the Darb-Al-Khalil, that has just started on site just south of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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Croythorn reborn: Edinburgh apartments
Contractor YOR has completed a £12m project to transform the Croythorn House office block in Edinburgh into apartments
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Sunderland university student union: All bar none
There’s no room for slackers at Sunderland university’s dazzling new student union, which packs its impressively generous spaces with sports halls and exercise areas. You can’t even get a pint around here
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Comment
Party politics: Gus Alexander on overpriced party wall surveyors
Gus Alexander doesn’t like to get involved in spats over party walls. Scumbag neighbours he can deal with, but overpriced surveyors who think they’re auditioning for Boston Legal? Never
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Street’s ahead
Cabe has called Lime Tree Square in Street, Somerset, “among the best housing designed this century.” The development, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, was among 36 presented with a ɫTV for Life 2009 award by the design watchdog and the Home Builders Federation
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Comment
Actually, it's the actuaries
ɫTV’s editor is misinformed about why pension funds have failed (23 October, page 3). We didn’t suddenly “start living 10 years longer”. Life expectancy has been rising steadily since Bazalgette fixed London’s sewers and wiped out cholera
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Comment
ACE agreements: Altogether now
The recent streamlining of the two design agreements for consultants into one brings simplicity and flexibility as well as a new take on liability
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Turnover drop of 44% puts Jarvis £5.8m in the red
Turnover at rail specialist Jarvis fell 44% from £203m to £115m in the six months to 16 October, with the company plunging to a £5.8m loss
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Interserve sues Bovis for £3m in sweet factory dispute
Details have emerged of a legal row between Bovis Lend Lease and Interserve over M&E work carried out by the latter on a £49m sweet factory in Yorkshire
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Bellway bosses rake in £240k in bonuses despite protests
Three Bellway bosses have taken home a total of £240,099 in bonuses in 2009, despite a shareholder revolt over their awards last year
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NG Bailey will trawl market for new boss in 2010
NG Bailey will begin the hunt for a permanent replacement for former chief executive Mark Andrews in the new year
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Features
Cost update: November 2009
The quarterly analysis of changes to costs and prices shows building costs falling year on year for the first time in four decades. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports
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Latest construction appointments - 4 December 2009
Jane Watson has become business development and marketing manager at Letchworth Roofing
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G&T: Toughest 12 months in our 169-year history
Despite 7% rise in turnover, profit drops 15% at consultant after fee freefall in late 2008
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Galliford Try buys Cornwall housebuilder for £200,000
Galliford Try has bought Cornwall-based housebuilder Rosemullion Homes for £200,000