All Building articles in 2000 Issue 36
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Features
Time is not on your side
If an adjudicator awards a builder a given sum for work that is subsequently shown to be defective, is the client within its rights to knock off a certain amount to compensate?
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Comment
Why I quit
First person The Construction Confederation is divisive, obstructive and dominated by the majors. So, George & Harding is saying goodbye.
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Features
Opinion poll
Do you know what your staff really think of you? Use an employee attitude survey to find out, says Hays Montrose’s Rob Smith.
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News
The office on the right side of the tracks
Glas Architects’ first building will bring a smile to the faces of frustrated south London commuters.
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Features
Nieuw-Terbregge, Rotterdam
High-density schemes that update building forms first explored in the 1970s are a recurrent theme of contemporary Dutch housing. Within the experimental Nieuw-Terbregge estate in the inner suburbs of Rotterdam, one of The Netherlands' most imaginative architects, Mecanoo, has come up with high-density dual-aspect housing terraces in which car parking ...
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Features
Setting a new standard
The first standard form partnering contract has been launched, and here the man who helped to draft it explains why the industry is going to like what it sees.
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Features
Langerak, Leidsche Rijn
Langerak is one of the very few contributions by a British architect to Dutch mainstream housing. While conforming to Dutch conventions of layout and construction, the new-build scheme of 77 terraced houses for sale, designed by Maccreanor Lavington Architects, manifests a slightly English domestic character. The housing scheme is part ...
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Features
Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam
Kop van Zuid is Rotterdam's docklands regeneration scheme, which won government approval in 1991. Although greater Rotterdam remains the world's largest port, the docklands regeneration area is a compact 125 ha, just one tenth of London's. Lying opposite the city centre on the bank of the River Maas, Kop van ...
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Features
How do they do it?
Six Dutch construction techniques are being put through their paces on Millennium Plus, a social housing scheme on the Nightingale Estate in Hackney, east London. Here's how they will speed up site works.
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Features
The future is orange
Dutch housing is the envy of UK architects and contractors. What makes it so special?
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News
French giant tipped to take on Wembley
Contractor Bouygues warms up on subs’ bench as stadium developer drops Bovis Lend Lease/Multiplex.
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Features
Speed freaks
With sports-car looks and plenty of oomph beneath the bonnet, the latest gadgets will set pulses racing. Pay up, plug in and prepare to roar down the information superhighway.
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Features
Feeding frenzy
After three headline-grabbing deals, there’s talk that more contractors will be swallowed up in a wave of consolidation. Others disagree – but then they’re probably on the menu …
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News
HBG to expand PFI portfolio in the UK
Dutch parent supports top-performing UK division’s plan to boost PFI workload by 20%.
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Features
Getting even
Some councils charge firms a fee every time they put up a hoarding in a street. Cowboys, of course, don’t tell the council and don’t pay. Under the best value rules, this has to stop – but will councils apply them?
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News
Housebuilders welcome price drop
Housebuilders Wilson Bowden and Wilson Connolly have welcomed the slowdown in the housing market.Wilcon group managing director John Tutte said the recent drop in house prices was good for the sector: “It is always better to work within a stable marketplace.”Wilcon’s pre-tax profit rose 48% to £30m in the six ...
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News
MOD to Eganise prime contracting route
Department under pressure to include partnering, quality-based selection and team alliancing in contracts.
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News
Egan to launch standard partnering contract
The first standard partnering contract will be launched next Thursday by Sir John Egan, author of Rethinking Construction.The document, to be published by the Association of Consultant Architects, is written in non-legal language and contains proposals such as the introduction of a “partnering adviser” to ensure relationships between members of ...
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News
Contaminated water threat in new homes
Plumbers broke Building Regulations and used lead solder in drinking water pipework, contaminating homes in Scotland and possibly nationwide.