All Building articles in 2001 issue 13

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  • Features

    What's it worth?

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Kath Knight, human resources director at multidisciplinary practice WSP, explains how to get the pay rise you know you deserve

  • Features

    Web watch

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    www.cotswold-windows.co.ukCotswold Architectural Products' site shows its range of window-hardware and locks. The site also offer sales and technical support, and the company newsletter Perspectives can be viewed online.www.fastrackcad.comCAD drawings of Shires Bathrooms' products can be downloaded from its site and inserted into project plans. Drawings include bathroom suites, taps and ...

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 23 March 2001

  • Features

    Is the party over?

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Record output, rising prices and full employment are threatening to overheat construction, but plunging stock markets may herald a big chill. Is it time to panic?

  • Features

    Phoenix of the North

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    In a gargantuan leap of the imagination, Wilkinson Eyre Architects has created Magna, a dynamic adventure in science that rises from the hulk of a decaying Northern steelworks.

  • Features

    The nonconformist

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Fighting talk is on the agenda as John Weir of Wilcon Homes prepares to take up one of the hottest seats in housebuilding: president of the House Builders Federation. Martin Spring finds out how he plans to change the system from within…

  • News

    Take over network, parliament tells Railtrack

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Railtrack should immediately take over direct responsibility for inspecting and maintaining its rail network, a parliamentary report recommended this week.

  • Comment

    Meeting opposition

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Tanya Ross - "Meeting fatigue", a frightening condition afflicting many in construction, is brought on by people spending more time talking about their job than actually doing it

  • Comment

    We love you

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham - Once upon a time, relations between banks and small and medium-sized construction firms was awful. Now all that has changed, say the banks. Oh yeah?

  • Features

    Lifting the lid

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    When Farahmand Jahanpour was told that nobody had ever designed a commercially viable retractable stadium roof, it was all the incentive he needed. Three weeks later he came up with Skylid.

  • Comment

    An invitation to sue

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Rudi Klein - Warranties are onerous, costly and dangerous. And since they're not a requirement, the least those who provide them should expect is something in return

  • Features

    How would you like your stake?

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    From October, employers will have to offer all staff stakeholder pensions. Chris Pomroy explains how the schemes will work and how companies should choose between them.

  • News

    Greek gift

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    WML/Woods Bagot has designed the masterplan and £200m first phase of the massive expansion of Thessaloniki Airport in northern Greece.

  • News

    Trading fuels Swan Hill rumours

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Speculation over housebuilder Swan Hill continued to mount this week after millions more of its shares were traded.

  • News

    Scots fear for social housing

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Scottish housebuilders fear that their affordable housing business will be hit if, as expected, it is decided that housing grants for the sector do not comply with European Union rules on state aid.

  • Features

    The human element

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Sir Frank Lampl - After the industrial and technological revolutions, the next great step froward for commerce will be one of attitude. And employees will lead the way

  • News

    McAlpine edges towards services sector

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Alfred McAlpine's purchase of utilities company Kennedy has raised doubts in the City over the future of the group's housebuilding business.

  • Features

    Driving force

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Huw Jones kicks off a new series on what construction can learn from the motor industry

  • Features

    Services whole-life costs

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The final part of this series on the lifespan costs of engineering services takes a look at the ups and downs of passenger lifts by Tony Cassidy of Cyril Sweett

  • News

    Pupils set to come to school in hard hats

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Ministers aim to put the government's £1bn school building programme to innovative use – by asking pupils to get involved in the construction process.