All Editorial articles – Page 5

  • High speed rail
    ɫTV

    Qatar launches £28bn rail mega project

    2010-09-16T13:11:00Z

    Scheme includes high speed link between Doha and Bahrain

  • Timber stairs fire
    ɫTV

    Fire on £7bn Bechtel airport site in Qatar

    2010-09-16T12:22:00Z

    Blaze at Doha’s new airport project destroys three buildings, injures three firefighters

  • ɫTV

    Architects' charity ready to enter Pakistan

    2010-09-14T14:36:00Z

    Article 25 calls for rebuilding work to be considered now

  • Coin
    Comment

    The silent QSs

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Are ɫTV readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?

  • Comment

    The worst-laid plans

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.

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    Comment

    Hansom: Move over Sherlock

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    ɫTV’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer

  • Comment

    Turning the heat on fire report

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety

  • Comment

    Don't look up

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of ɫTV’s health and safety blunders.

  • Comment

    Count the costs

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)

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    Comment

    International schools market: If you build it, they will buy it

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms

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    Comment

    Wonders & blunders with Jonathan Foyle

    2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Foyle adores the back-of-an-envelope creativity that led to Lincoln cathedral, but is worried about the people who move to the nascent city at Salford Quays

  • Comment

    A nonsulting request

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Those of your readers who managed to read e-ɫTV on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for ɫTV Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)

  • ɫTV

    Movers and makers

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    03 September 2010

  • Comment

    The train line

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    ɫTV that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.

  • Comment

    What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article about Laing O’Rourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed

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    Comment

    It's just a step to the left ...

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Our thanks, and the usual £25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.

  • The firm’s £31m Bede Academy in Blyth
    ɫTV

    Newcastle's Surgo hopes to see off heavyweight rivals

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    SME profile Tyneside firm believes regional education will enable locals to compete with nationals

  • Ivan McKeever
    ɫTV

    Styles & Wood halfway through recovery plan

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Fit-out firm climbs out of trouble as order book swells - but market remains tough

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    Great Strides

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Architect Stride Treglown and developer and contractor Marcus Worthington have secured permission for a 13-storey student accommodation tower block in Preston, Lancashire

  • This house was designed to be highly sustainable – and it is!
    Comment

    You've got the wrong house

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (“This house has been designed to be highly sustainable