All Building articles in 1999 Issue 28

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  • Features

    Location, location, location

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A new green space for London capitalises on its Thames-side siting, its simple architectural forms allowing clutter-free views and acting as a magnet for housing developers.

  • News

    Landscaping

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Home run

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    UK architect Mark Dziewulski lived the American dream in New York and California for 17 years. Now, he is bringing his can-do approach and value engineering expertise back to Britain.

  • Features

    Helping hands

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    How MDA and Mansell are advising black firms in a new scheme to tackle racism in the industry

  • Features

    Growth industry

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The latest fad is to design yourself a garden, but Dan Pearson, one man at the forefront of this revolution, reckons construction has much to gain by building landscaping into the plans first, not last

  • Features

    Getting IT together

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    There is plenty of talk in construction about reaping the benefits of information technology, but rather less action. Now QS Gardiner & Theobald has taken up the gauntlet in Reading.

  • Features

    Strawberry fields forever

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    At the home of the world s most prestigious tennis tournament, spectators were too preoccupied with strawberries, cream and Tim Henman to notice they were in the midst of a massive redevelopment to secure its future as a world-class venue.

  • Features

    Dwyer takes on Liverpool revival

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The former Wimpey boss is returning to his home town to entice national developers to a city once synonymous with militant local politics and industrial strife.

  • News

    DETR group tackles racism and sexism

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Government and industry bodies set up monitoring taskforce "to put equal opportunities at top of the agenda".

  • News

    Wigan stadium work wins sports deals for McAlpine

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Alfred McAlpine and JJB Sports team up to build more football complexes after Soccer Centre success.

  • News

    Tax reprieve likely as crunch date looms

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Paymaster-general Primarolo about to announce transitional arrangements to help subcontractors.

  • Features

    Counting the cost of Woolf

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Recent changes in English court practice mean that the winner of an action should no longer assume it will be able to recover its costs.

  • News

    Consultants sound tax warning

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Consultants are alarmed over proposals to tax their use of self-employed staff operating as one-person companies. Draft Inland Revenue proposals will make firms liable for the income tax and National Insurance contributions of self-employed consultants they hire for extended periods. Consulting firms such as architects and engineers say this will ...

  • News

    Raynsford heads guestlist at Commons reception

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Senior industry figures join ministers and MPs at Building's 1999 Commons terrace reception.

  • Features

    Improved circulation

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A trailblazing day hospital in London provides production-line treatment for patients. The building design by Avanti manages to reconcile an efficient layout with gracious architecture.

  • News

    Carillion hard at work selling flotation

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The Carillion road show rolled on this week as management met 11 senior analysts to persuade them to keep or buy stakes when the business is listed on the stock exchange on 30 July. The City knows Sir Neville Simms very well but this was a chance to introduce ...

  • News

    Gleeds in quick fit call centre venture

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    QS hooks up with car parts supplier Unipart to produce cheap, off-the-shelf call centres.

  • Features

    Cost model: Call centres

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Call centres, the new information factories, are evolving as employers recognise that the working environment can affect business efficiency and staff turnover. Cost consultants Davis Langdon Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the specification and costs of call centres

  • News

    Services business to up Tilbury profit

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Tilbury Douglas plans £75.3m purchase of scaffolding and industrial services specialist Bandt in bid to move away from traditional contracting.

  • News

    First cardboard building planned in Essex

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Schoolchildren are used to making buildings out of cardboard boxes, but now pupils will occupy one engineer Buro Happold is developing the country s first cardboard building for a school in Essex. Buro Happold aims to use cardboard components for a school in Essex that will use 90% ...