All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 2005 issue 48 – Page 3

  • 1.The winners line up for a photo call
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    Winning hearts and prizes

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The 2005 Regeneration Awards, held on Monday at London’s Hilton Hotel, celebrated those firms and people who have shown they are committed to regeneration. Here are some of the victors …

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    While Cher enlivens a civil engineering show and jungle beasts cause alarm at a hacks’ awards party, a spot of pier pressure is applied in Brighton

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    A fat lot of good

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Adjudication is failing the very people it was designed to help – the small contractor with a low-value claim that needs a quick and cheap decision. So what’s to be done?

  • Comment

    Less elegant than flatulent

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    I couldn’t agree more with Mark Cowell’s and James Nisbet’s comments (28 October) concerning the award of the Stirling Prize to the Scottish parliament building.

  • Comment

    Dot joining

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Energy saving, reduction in greenhouse gases, sustainability, green building, save those trees … all very laudable but it needs joining up.

  • Comment

    Dodgy DIY

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The respondent had agreed to erect a conservatory for the appellant. During the works the respondent had climbed a stepladder and had rested the inner end of a rafter on a lip or flange, which ran round the spider. The respondent inserted a fixing screw, which was supposed to secure ...

  • John Smith
    Comment

    The shadow of death

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    This is the story of how a case of ordinary back pain turned into a long, slow wait to learn the awful truth about a chest X-ray …

  • Adrian Harvey
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    A culture of excellence

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Adrian Harvey on how CABE plans to make the rest as good as the best

  • Blair: Review of UK energy needs
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    Industry in talks over nuclear skills crisis

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The nuclear industry is to meet the construction industry’s trade bodies in the new year to try and head off a skills crisis in the provision of new nuclear power stations.

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    Small Jarvis profit wiped out by financial costs

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Jarvis, troubled support services firm, has announced that it made a £61m loss in the six months to September.

  • George Galloway
    Features

    Charm offensive

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Despite his continuing war with the Labour party, the Daily Telegraph and the US Senate, George Galloway has opened a new front against Tower Hamlets council. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV reports on the leader of Respect’s struggle to persuade tenants to fight their council’s housing policy

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    Crossrail ‘challenge’ to Olympics

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The £10bn Crossrail project could increase the cost and slow the construction programme of the 2012 Olympics by obstructing the transportation of materials to sites.

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    Cabinet split over Treasury’s planning gain supplement

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown set to announce further consultation in pre-Budget report, despite ODPM opposition

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    Procurement delayed on Bradford schools

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Schools for the Future programme in Bradford has been delayed, and the preferred bidder will probably not be named until next year.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The PFI suggestion box …

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Treasury’s review of the PFI can’t come soon enough. The renewal of the grim Whipps Cross hospital was hampered rather than helped by it, and the refurbishment of St Bart’s is demonstrating how much money can be lost in a few weeks.

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    Government rejects call for single Gateway body

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Housing minister Yvette Cooper has rejected Lord Rogers’ call to create a single body to oversee the regeneration of the Thames Gateway.

  • Roger Protz author of 'The Good Beer Guide'
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Roger Protz raises a glass to the London pub that was named after a philanthropist, and pours cold water on a London station

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    Barratt boss calls for overhaul of planning

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of Barratt Developments has appealed to the government to overhaul the planning system and has produced an 18-point programme of reform to show how it could be done.

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    Report backs roof tax to pay for Milton Keynes rail link

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Levy imposed on developers could fund the £200m construction of a Milton Keynes-to-Oxford rail line

  • ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Back issues

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Planners versus developers and a familiar tale of labour shortages …