All Building articles in 2000 Issue 03
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Features
The right stuff
At last, the Human Rights Act has made its way into UK law. It may not be something many of us have to think about on an everyday basis, but by Jove, it's going to affect us all.
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News
Pawson Williams wins Swedish prize
Small British practice beats Rogers and Erskine to design £100m mixed-use development for Stockholm square.
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Features
Take the wind out of your sales
Like it or not, every construction service a client buys must be sold. This means that construction professionals need effective selling skills – so, here's how to do it. Plus, a guide to marketing speak.
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Comment
The magic of television
First person In her first column, the Construction Confederation’s new boss is another fan of the dome – and the TV series about it.
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Features
Value judgments
Adjudicators frequently find that they are being asked to make a judgment as to whether the value of an interim payment is reasonable. And it seems that, if the contract is silent, they're on their own on this one.
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Features
Modernism makes its mark on Walsall
West Midlands is home to £25m new gallery designed by Caruso St John.
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Features
Spotlight on lift installation
Lead timesLead times for bespoke lift installations remain unchanged at up to 38 weeks, but this figure is only for major installations. Smaller projects can take about 28 weeks, with lead times for standard lifts as low as 20-24 weeks. Although the overall lead time remains static, design periods have ...
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News
Government U-turn over Partnerships UK
Plans to create body that would invest up to £1bn in PFI projects shelved in favour of advice shop.
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News
Laing goes into retirement homes
Laing Homes last week bought retirement homes developer Beechcroft for £9.6m. The move will see Laing Homes, which has been rebranding itself as an upmarket homebuilder, taking a slice of the growing retirement homes market. This is currently dominated by McCarthy & Stone. Beechcroft, which sells houses worth £200 000-500 ...
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News
Outsider gets top job
Construction outsider Christopher Blythe is to be the chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Building. Blythe, 45, former chief executive of the North and Mid-Cheshire Training and Enterprise Council, said he hoped to focus on professional development and life-long learning to help make membership of the institute more attractive. ...
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Features
The next generation
Graham Stirk may not have the celebrity status of Lord Rogers, but with three major projects under his belt, he is one of Richard Rogers Partnership's rising stars.
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News
Firms are losing patience with MOD
Contractors say they need “one prime contract a week” to keep their teams together.
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Features
Find the leader
The Institute of Personnel and Development's Angela Baron on how to spot and nurture stars of the future.
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News
Fitzpatrick plans to expand
One of the UK’s largest privately owned contractors, Fitzpatrick, is sizing up a number of acquisitions in the South-east worth up to £5m.The move could see Fitzpatrick take a large stake in another company rather than buy a whole firm. Managing director Jim Elders would not disclose his targets, but ...
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Features
Shock horror: I like the dome
Leave a bunch of journalists queuing on new year’s eve with no alcohol and it’s no wonder the Millennium Dome gets mud slung at it.
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News
Dispute over ventilation problems at Saga
A row is brewing over the Michael Hopkins and Partners-designed Saga headquarters in Folkestone, Kent, after complaints about defects in the building.A spokesperson for Saga said it was in talks with the architect about a number of faults in the £20m building.The spokesperson said: “Saga confirms that the buildings have ...
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Features
A matter of life and death
Building's occasional series on the pros and cons of rival procurement methods explains the slow death of management contracting – and how it could be resurrected, purged of its sins.
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Features
How research saved the contractor time and money
The acoustic performance of the walls and roof are critical if noise break-out or break-in to the auditoria is to be prevented. For the first scheme, at Boldon in 1997, HBG did not carry out any acoustic testing but simply opted for a heavy roof construction with sufficient mass to ...
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Features
Get connected
It's high time construction companies overcame technophobia and woke up to the fact that if you're not on-line, you're out of the picture. Get the message: new business starts with e-mail.
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News
Moayedi to shake up Jarvis board
City sees decision to replace finance director as bid to revive share price.