All Building articles in 1999 Issue 11
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Features
Urban warrior
Skilled self-publicist Michael Gwilliam has transformed the "close to crusty" Civic Trust into an urban campaigner with influence. He wants to make the everyday better and this week, the trust's awards aim to do just that.
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Tarmac to split in two this summer
Sir Neville Simms to chair demerged construction business but Atkinson and Pellard to retire.
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Features
Sea through
A glazed roof is the star of a redevelopment scheme designed to help Greenwich's Maritime Museum cope with millennium-fuelled tourism.
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Rip-roaring success
Contractors have the chance to make National Construction Week go with a bang if they use it as an opportunity to stop meddling with standard subcontract forms and tear up onerous amendments.
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Now we're talking
In a bid to get departments and regional offices communicating, Kier is investing £2m in a streamlined, centralised computer system.
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Waiting for the next retail revolution
As government planning restrictions mark the end of out-of-town retail parks, why is it that the expected boom in city-centre shopping centres has yet to emerge?
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Comment
What's in a name?
First person To be called a builder is to be branded a cowboy. So construction professionals should get themselves a new name.
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Just the job
Whitby Bird & Partners' building physicist Duncan Price tells Nancy Cavill about low-energy design, Tanzanian solar cookers and white-water canoeing.
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Splitting headache
Cracks are showing in the glazed roof of the National Centre for Glass. Whether it's down to builders, skateboarders, stones or the weather, restoring the centre to its former transparent glory will be costly.
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Features
It's a hard life
Laing has a tough job on its hands creating the International Centre for Life. A steel frame that flexes to cope with the earth's elements is topped by the complex curves of an asymmetric roof.
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Features
The family
Privately owned Sir Robert McAlpine is the social and political apex of contracting, yet next to nothing is known about its internal life. Building investigates
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Contractors struggled with MOD initiative
Laing and Amec both struggled with major cultural issues in drawing up concept designs for the Ministry of Defence's new form of contracting, it was revealed last week. Details of how the firms wrestled with the development of prime contracting were released to coincide with the start on ...
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Jonathon Porritt takes construction's side
The green campaigner is to speak at next Monday's Construction Confederation conference on eco-aware building and what he will say may come as a surprise.
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Village shake-up comes as developer confirms delay
Countryside/Taywood devolves responsibility to specialist subsidiaries to get stalled project moving.
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Partnering comes unstuck
Not so long ago, partnering was being hailed as the answer to construction's contractual problems. But it is doomed to failure unless the industry and its clients take on board the practical philosophy it embodies.
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Office 'groundscrapers' proposed for the City
Corporation of London offers help to developers planning 150 000 m 2 low-level complexes.
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PFI costs hit Kier profit, says Busby
Contractor hit by £3.4m corporate overhead charge, but chairman confirms its commitment to pursuing PFI work.
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Bovis orders subcontractor's workers off site
Bovis has ordered subcontractor Duffy Construction to remove some east European workers from a site in central London. Two weeks ago, Bovis told workers on its Berners Street site to produce identification confirming National Insurance numbers. After the checks, Bovis ordered 18 workers, most of eastern European origin, off the ...
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Young quits Lovell for Berkeley subsidiary
Blow for struggling Lovell as director of social housing jumps ship to head St George regeneration unit.
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Barcelona first place to win RIBA Gold Medal
Barcelona has become the first city ever to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal. The RIBA jurors gave the Spanish city this year's award because it was considered to be a shining example of urban regeneration. Landmark projects such as the Olympic stadium, the World Trade Centre, as well as ...