All ɫTV articles in 2004 issue 48 – Page 2

  • Park Hill: Best aspects will be retained
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    Urban Splash wins iconic Sheffield redevelopment

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Developer Urban Splash has won one of the highest profile regeneration schemes in the country, the redevelopment of the Park Hill estate in Sheffield.

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Once again, his flexible nose, long sticky tongue and powerfully muscled claws enable our diarist to find stories in places other journalists can’t reach

  • ɫTV

    Government in talks over skills qualifications

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The government is in talks with construction chiefs over creating a register of reputable trade body skills qualification schemes.

  • ɫTV

    Sharewatch: Less than festive

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    There was little to cheer about when the markets closed last week. Shares across most of the construction and building materials sector dropped, pushing the sector overall down 2% to 2924.

  • Comment

    Everyone’s a winner

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The Housing Corporation has been given the power to make grants to private housebuilders – but believe it or not, housing associations stand to gain from this as well

  • Comment

    UK shares Europe’s guilt

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    As reported in ɫTV (19 November, page 15), Alan Wood has exposed the unfair practices that European governments use to exclude British companies from their public sector contracts.

  • ɫTV

    Row erupts over housing targets

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    A political row has broken out after a regional assembly voted to reject government housebuilding targets for the South-east

  • Comment

    The prongs of doom

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Time and again adjudications end in failure because the courts detect bias. Here’s another case where a botched job inevitably results in a load of wasted money

  • Features

    Seven wonders of islamic design

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    From sandbags to soaring skyscrapers, this year’s Aga Khan Awards are a timely reminder of the diversity of architecture in the Muslim world

  • ɫTV

    Hochtief quizzed over ‘cheap labour’ claim

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    GERMAN contractor Hochtief has been accused of basing bid costs for a project in Scotland on the use of cheap Romanian workers

  • Comment

    The scrabble for cash

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Four years ago, when construction was comfortably ensconced at the old Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the government ran a scheme called Partners in Innovation.

  • ɫTV

    Mayor calls for denser housing

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The London section of the Thames Gateway growth area has the potential to accommodate up to 120,000 houses, according to London mayor Ken Livingstone,

  • ɫTV

    Call for delay to tax launch

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry’s tax committee has asked the government to delay the start of a new tax scheme because firms need more time to comply with the rules.

  • ɫTV

    Calder comfort

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Plans have been announced for the second phase of a £30m regeneration scheme in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Developed by Binks Vertical and designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects, the scheme is located on Mill Royd Island – a peninsula site located between the River Calder, the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal ...

  • ɫTV

    Gateway bridge delayed over ecosystem fears

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    A public inquiry may be held into the proposed £425m Thames Gateway bridge if its backers do not modify the design to takes account of some environmental concerns

  • ɫTV

    Bovis Homes delayed nine months on Yorkshire scheme

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder has yet to issue revised completion date for 227-home development after catalogue of setbacks

  • Comment

    A BTEC in boredom

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.

  • Comment

    Body talk

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    I’ve just finished reading “The burning of the bodies” (24 September, page 24) and have an overwhelming urge to endorse the idea of an institute for the built environment.

  • Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace

  • Ann Minogue
    Comment

    The theory of black holes

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    he phrase ‘defined provisional sum’ in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort