All ɫTV articles in 18 December 2009 – Page 8

  • Features

    The Green Surge

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    When the decade began, sustainability and zero carbon were mostly of interest to eco-enthusiasts

  • Features

    Good projects

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    This was the decade of the “iconic” towers, sustainable homes and very big infrastructure schemes

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    We’ve never had it so good

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    You can’t see much when you’re in a hole, but the truth is that the noughties were in many ways a wonderful decade

  • Features

    Three gaffes

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Operation HIPS The introduction of home information packs was Labour’s main policy idea to improve the housebuying process and make homes more green

  • Features

    What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone became London’s first elected mayor in 2000 after being expelled from the Labour party.

  • Features

    Five we lost

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    James Nisbet, the QS who invented cost planning (1920-2009)

  • Comment

    Fired up

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    “So how dangerous is timber frame?” you ask on the cover (11 December).

  • Features

    Five feuds

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    1 Norman Foster vs Ken ShuttleworthNorman Foster took a leaf out of Stalin’s book when he doctored a photograph in a belated attempt to distance himself from former colleague Ken Shuttleworth. The two had fallen out after Ken gave an interview to ɫTV in which he claimed much of the ...

  • ɫTV

    Mott MacDonald puts Fulcrum to work on Masdar eco-city

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Environmental consultant Fulcrum is to be brought in to work on the £13bn Masdar carbon-neutral city in the UAE as the first fruits of its purchase by UK engineer Mott MacDonald

  • Features

    The disappeared ones

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    All the world’s a stage, and the people and companies merely players. Here are some of those who made their exit in the noughties

  • Comment

    My digital life: Ken mclean

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    What is your favourite website?

  • Features

    What we know now that we didn’t know then

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    SustainabilityBack in 2000, most of us didn’t know our PVs from our elbows, and sustainable design was the preserve of strange men with beards.TwitterWhat did we do before the ability to share our shopping list with the world in 140 characters or less? Or our thoughts on construction topics, of ...

  • Comment

    The decade from hell: Legal review

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    It ended badly and, to be honest, it didn’t start that auspiciously either, but at least it also contained some reforms that may well stand the test of time

  • Features

    Timeline of the decade

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Here what was happening in the outside world when ɫTV was doing its stuff (spiced up with our favourite quotes of the decade)

  • Features

    Deals of the decade

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Five that worked out

  • ɫTV

    Lancsville may lose Croydon job

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Lancsville Construction is in talks that could lead to it losing its place on a £28m scheme in Croydon

  • Features

    The olympic dream and its cost

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    The announcement, on 6 July 2005, that London had won the battle to host the 2012 Olympics was met with unbridled joy not just for the millions of bid supporters, but also from a construction industry rubbing its hands together at the prospect of billions pounds worth of work

  • Features

    Top five contractors

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Then and now

  • ɫTV

    A third of UK job cuts over past year were in construction

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    More people lost their jobs in the construction industry in the third quarter of 2009 than any other UK sector, according to the latest government figures

  • Comment

    Low conduct

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    A major point overlooked by Richard Steer in his article Buyer Beware (13 November) is that all partners and directors in consultancies have a duty under their professional indemnity (PI) insurance policy to take all reasonable precautions to prevent losses or liabilities arising in connection with the insured risks