All Building articles in 2001 issue 09
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Features
Web watch
www.gecanderson.co.ukGEC Anderson has launched a new website for specifiers of stainless steel. The site includes product data, frequently asked questions, CAD downloads and technical details, plus images of the company's worktops, sinks, bowls, cabinets, shelving and sanitary appliances.www.callenders.co.ukCallenders Interactive Roofing Centre features the "SpecBuilder" to help in the specification of ...
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Comment
Vengeance is mine
Tony Bingham - A series of rail disasters has led to the introduction of the offence of "corporate killing". It may satisfy the public's desire to see justice done, but will it do any good?
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Quality mark launch set for May
The government's quality mark scheme will be launched on 22 May in Birmingham and Somerset after 275 builders took up the DETR's cut-price offer to join up.
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Features
Welcome to the jungle
Eden is the biggest greenhouse in the world and the most eagerly anticipated construction project of the year. With two weeks to go before it opens, Gus Alexander explored Cornwall's jungle in a bubble.
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Just the job
Lucia Graves talks to Andrew Holloway, director of Green Oak Carpentry Company and a former potter, about why he switched from ceramics to wood.
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I can make your QS more interesting
This woman is a life coach, part of the latest management craze to be imported from across the Atlantic. But can wearing a coloured baseball cap really improve your construction project?
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Comment
Heading for the hurdles
Julian Holloway - It's now supposed to be easier for lawyers to handle disputes on a conditional-fee basis, but all sorts of obstacles have been put in their way. Is it too big a bet?
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News
Hanson shrugs off worries as profit rises
Building materials giant Hanson recorded better than expected results for last year after earlier warnings about the impact on its profit of the difficult trading conditions, fuel price rises and bad weather.
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Fighting for the Foxes
The Architect Miller Partnership has unveiled designs for the Leicester City stadium. Ballast, Birse and Taylor Woodrow are battling for the £35m contract, which is set to start on site in May.
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Is prefab just a fad?
Last year, some housebuilders came to the conclusion that prefab was the future and started gearing up to meet it. Now many of the claims for factory housing are looking increasingly shaky.
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News
Housebuilders set up e-billing system
Sixteen housebuilders, including Berkeley Homes and Redrow, and suppliers, including Jewson, have set up a business-to-business email billing system.
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Telecoms giant picks partners for UK drive
co-location centre owner Global Switch is choosing three UK fit-out firms to take part in its worldwide framework contractor programme. These companies will carry out contracts on its UK construction programme.
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Peace declared in Waterloo terminal row
AN OUT-OF-COURT settlement has been reached between Eurostar and the project team over glazing problems at the £120m Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo Station.
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Trio signed up in Sainsbury deal
Supermarket giant J Sainsbury has set up a framework deal with three contractors to oversee the sprucing-up of its £4.5bn store base.
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Gloucester council to name preferred firms
Gloucestershire council is compiling three lists of preferred contractors and consultants to carry out repairs and capital projects.
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Whole-life cost model
Two years after the first Whole-life cost model, Citex has returned to the office sector, updating its occupancy costs for three model buildings and comparing it with this City of London office block
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Contracts
Amec lands £22.5m airfield jobAmec has won a £22.5m contract to refurbish hangars and build accommodation for new helicopters at Wattisham airfield, Suffolk. HBG to build £22.5m officesHBG is building the third phase of a £70m office development for Sun Microsystems. The phase involves two buildings worth £22.5m.F+A wins Hong ...
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Comment
Critical conditions
Tim Elliott - Watch out for the "exclusive remedies" clauses in two M&E contracts. They rule out claims for breaches of implied term and claims for breaches not in the conditions
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Officers' college, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
The Ministry of Defence's £500m PFI staff college has been handed over to the armed services.