All Building articles in 2001 issue 07
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News
Structures Special
Building looks at structural innovations from Australia to Mars. Give your life some structure.
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Features
Sheriff of the skyline
When Carl Powell arrived as Westminster's planning director, developers expected a high-rise bonanza. But the Texan has spent the last two years cutting them down to size.
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Features
Supporting rights
Tara Meagher, of law firm Beale and Company, clarifies a worker's new 'right to be accompanied'.
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Comment
It never rains but it pours
Designers, contractors and authorities that neglect to consider the impact of building near rivers could find themselves liable for flood damage caused downstream. Take care.
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News
Pidgley rules out merger
Berkeley chief executive Tony Pidgley has ruled his company out of the latest round of industry consolidation as any potential targets would be too expensive.
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Features
Life on Mars
It may sound like science fiction, but the prototype of Foreign Office Architects' house for Mars is about to be unveiled as part of Nasa's Future Homes display in Sweden.
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Comment
The price of perfect justice
Thanks to the Woolf reforms and a recent chancery ruling, parties that win an arbitration on one good point but bring up other issues that have no legal merit may find themselves paying the costs of the loser.
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News
Miletrian growth slows
Profit and turnover growth at one of construction's star performers has fallen for a second year.
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Features
Faults on the line
London and Quadrant Housing Trust's repairs hotline was already overstretched when its maintenance budget was frozen. So it's developed an internet service to make everyone's life easier.
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News
Report sets rail fatality target
more than one in 10 000 railway workers die every year and trackside workers are exposed to similar risks as workers in construction, a Health and Safety Executive report has found.
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PFI faces European regulation threat
European probe raises fears that PFI will be made "unworkable" by new rules.
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News
More gloom for e-construction
E-CONSTRUCTION was hit by another setback this week when Bovis Lend Lease pulled out of the global internet hub Aecventure.
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News
Industry dominates 'least-loved' list
Survey finds that construction sector is the most undervalued by the stock exchange, with housebuilders at the bottom of the pile.
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News
Now DETR offers quality mark for free
Government gives members of 11 trade bodies chance to register free of charge as firms snub discount.
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Features
Designers in the safety spotlight
In the third of our series in the run-up to John Prescott's safety summit, Building asks if safety is a matter of design, and if designers are doing enough to combat site deaths.
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Comment
Grounds for debate
Unforeseen problems with ground conditions are a major headache and it's crucial to be clear about where the risk lies in the contract. But this is debatable, especially on PFI projects …
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Comment
A death in the family
First person - There isn't exactly a rush to buy Laing, but with funeral costs mounting, the owners need to appoint an undertaker soon.
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News
Countryside scores hat-trick
Developer Countryside Properties has been awarded three estate regeneration contracts.