All Building articles in 1999 Issue 42
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Features
Tale of the unexpected
Outlandish stitched-together bulbous shapes, coloured glass walls, skewed stilts and even a "beret" make up Peckham's new public library. But, then, this is an Alsop & Störmer design …
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Features
Out with the old, in with the new
The design for Procession House had to answer both the developers' need for speed and the planners' conservation worries. It did so through the unusual approach of cladding the building twice.
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Comment
The man for the job
A big man with big ideas, new RIBA president Marco Goldschmied is going to give architecture the shake-up it needs.
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Comment
Scottish internationals
Other than at Murrayfield, a contest in Scotland may be subject to the UN's regime of international commercial arbitration – which could actually make it easier.
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Features
How did they do that?
Will Alsop, senior partner of architect Alsop & Störmer, is keen to reassure British clients that his non-conformist designs do not entail greater risk than more conventional building forms. "None of our buildings has fallen down, they're all built on budget, and they've all got good maintenance records," he says.Although ...
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Features
Tender price forecast
A modest growth in workload meant tender prices remained stable in the third quarter of 1999, but output is expected to grow by as much as 8% over the next two years.
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Features
Green fingers
Architect Bill Dunster has championed sustainable design at work and home. Now, he's about to combine the two with a low-energy scheme modelled on his own house.
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News
Roadbuilders face new government levies
Government to charge for time spent digging up roads and introduce tougher penalties for overruns.
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Features
Going up in our estimation
They used to be QSs' poor relations, but estimators are the big winners in this year's Hays Montrose/Building contractors' salary guide.
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News
Specialists support debt reform plan
Specialist contractors are backing government proposals that will help them recover money from insolvent contractors and clients.The Department of Trade and Industry Insolvency Service and the Treasury want to end the privileged status of banks and the Crown when companies go bust. This would mean that all creditors have an ...
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News
Dangerous designers criticised
A leading health and safety consultant last week fired a broadside at designers for failing to address safety in design.Speaking at the Construction Confederation's national safety conference, Managing Risk – Adding Value, former Health and Safety Executive inspector and chartered civil engineer Michael Williams said poor design had caused some ...
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News
JCT set to tackle PFI contracts
Contract-drafting body may shed traditionalist image by drafting forms for new-style procurement routes.
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Gleeson slams D&B as contracting profit drops
Contracting arm's profit falls 44% after "fundamental problems" on housing contracts.
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Construction costs to rise, says RICS
Rising workload and a tightening labour market are set to push up construction costs, says the RICS' latest market report.The RICS' third-quarter survey says activity will increase strongly during the next 12 months and that this, combined with the strength of the labour market, will "feed through to construction costs ...
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Comment
How to come a cropper
The Civil Procedure Rules make new demands on expert witnesses. Here's the story of one expert who didn't seem to appreciate that – and what Lord Woolf had to say about it.
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News
Prescott inquiry clears village developers
Gardiner & Theobald report insists Greenwich Millennium Village is consistent with original vision.
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News
Woolf shows its teeth in World Cargocentre case
Time and costs in dispute between Alstom and British Airways has been slashed by new legal rules.
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Crane calls for unamendable contracts
Movement for Innovation chairman Alan Crane has called for a non-adversarial contract that cannot be amended in a bid to encourage all firms on projects to work together.Speaking at a Movement for Innovation conference, Crane said one of the biggest barriers to changing the way the industry operated was forms ...
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News
Kvaerner may buy troubled Fearnley
Kvaerner is looking to buy parts of Fearnley Group – the Manchester-based contractor that went into receivership last month.Andrew Fearnley, managing director and chairman of Fearnley Construction, said that Kvaerner had made enquiries about the business and was due to visit the company by the end of the week. ...