All Building articles in 1999 Issue 06
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Features
Race to the top
How long does it take four men to fit a roof? If they use prefabricated roofing panels imported from The Netherlands, just two days.
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Comment
Splashing out
Other countries house their parliaments with generosity and panache. But here we begrudge such extravagance.
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Features
PIMS number one
Schal's paperless project information management system has been such a hit at the Royal Opera House that the whole project team is now on-line.
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Features
The new prescription
Boots wanted an office to help implement new work patterns and keep faith with its seminal 1960s building. DEGW obliged with a new take on the office of the future.
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Features
Just the job
The Harris brothers tell Elaine Knutt about their contract advisory business and the pleasures of working with your identical twin.
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News
New sparks row hits opera house
A dispute has blown up over the use of self-employed labour at the £220m refurbishment of the Royal Opera House in London. Electrical union AEEU is demanding an investigation into Beaver Management Services, which supplies more than 100 electricians and labourers to the project, after learning that its operatives are ...
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News
Office market gloom
Survey for last quarter of 1998 shows confidence languishing at four-year low.
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News
More Egan in the North
Firms in the Midlands and the North-west are to be asked to provide more demonstration projects to implement the principles of the Egan report. The Movement for Innovation in Construction, a body set up to spread best practice, believes that too many of the demonstration projects set up so far ...
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News
Eco-activists step up pressure on Persimmon
co-warriors urged to take a stand against green-belt development.
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Features
Don't lose touch
The first of a new series on marketing tools and techniques looks at how an up-to-date database of clients and contacts can help you win new business.
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Features
What's the damage?
When can the result of one legal action be used to prove liability and determine the amount to be paid out in another?
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News
Revenue and Customs estate privatisation kicks off
Call for advisers launches massive deal to put 750 government buildings in private hands.
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Features
Keep it covered
Legal cost insurance is a welcome option for smaller firms that have to submit to the threat of conglomerate litigation fees, whether they win or lose.
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Features
The City firm taking control of construction
It has £60bn at its disposal. If it wants to, it can sack the board, split the firm or sell it. And, more and more, it wants to. Meet Phillips & Drew Fund Management, harbinger of a new breed of investor.
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News
Industry chiefs doubt impact of Latham
Survey finds bosses at Britain's top contractors unimpressed by government bid to improve construction.
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Features
Manchester centre unveiled
Exclusive CAD images of the £21.4m convention centre now on site next to the G-Mex Centre.
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News
Cardiff stadium will be open in June, says client
Welsh Rugby Union bids to convince South Africans that June friendly will go ahead at reduced capacity.
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News
NHBC under fire for failing to protect buyers
A leading housebuilder has called for changes to improve the tarnished public image of the National House Building Council, including league tables of housebuilders. John Callcutt, chief executive of Britain's 14th-largest housebuilder Crest Nicholson, said the NHBC must change the way it operates to pay more heed to the ...
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Features
Direct payment or bust
The analysts have forecast a slowdown for construction, so it might be time to take another look at the provisions for direct payment to subcontractors in the event of insolvency.
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Features
Risky business
Lucrative contracts overseas are a draw for UK firms. But, as the recent kidnappings in Yemen show, staff security can be threatened when a work spot becomes a trouble spot.