All Building articles in 2001 issue 15
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Features
What's your strategy?
Angela Baron of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development on how to link your people management with your business strategy
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Comment
Read the small print
Robert Akenhead - It will now be harder to overturn clauses limiting liability, after a Court of Appeal ruling that firms should be presumed to know what they are agreeing to
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News
Planners stymie regeneration
Housebuilders have blamed planning delays for the sharp fall in new housing starts in February.
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Features
Is this the one?
With construction portals failing left, right and centre, it might seem like a bad time to launch an internet venture. But the big-league backers of Asite are convinced that they can defy economic gravity.
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Features
We have lift-off
Don't worry if you haven't booked your ticket on the first passenger shuttle. NASA's space lift could soon be the easiest and fastest way of getting into orbit …
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Features
Same old innovations
Tom Barker - What does it take for a project to be considered innovative in these days of domes, wheels and giant greenhouses? And does it matter?
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News
RMC makes grab for Scottish rival
Building materials group RMC has made a £46.5m bid for Scottish-based materials producer Alexander Russell, despite investors' calls for RMC to sell some of its non-essential holdings.
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Features
Going to plan?
Everyone agrees that masterplans are essential to any self-respecting regeneration project. It's just a pity that councils and urban regeneration companies don't know what they are …
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News
Gleeson wins Sheffield job
Housebuilder Gleeson Homes and developer Westport Developments have won a competition to develop the grade II-listed Leopold Street area of Sheffield.
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Features
Star of track and field
Rugby-loving Paul Westbury is Buro Happold's youngest ever partner. Here's how the 31-year-old is tackling one of engineering's toughest conundrums: how to make stadiums flexible and attractive.
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News
Entrepreneur of the year
The Local Authority Building Control is sponsoring the new Building 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Comment
Enemies of the state
Colin Harding - Pension scheme employers are being asked to stump up to cover the pension industry's incompetence and the government's desperation to avoid blame
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News
Draft version of energy regulations published
The government has published a draft version of its amendments to the energy regulations to give the industry time to prepare for the change.
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Features
Oh, what a delivery
Steve Elliott - Overbury's Perfect Delivery initiative promises no snagging and no defects. Here's how it works
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News
O'Rourke can use Laing deal to join the superleague
Andrew Gay explains why he thinks that Ray O'Rourke's no-nonsense approach and David Anderson's experience can make the takeover a success
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Comment
Crowded house
Regeneration - Last week, the House Builders Federation warned that housing supply is at its lowest level for 50 years. Gareth Capner says it's time to admit brownfield is not enough
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Comment
Knock-on costs
Ann Minogue - Demolition contractors can be liable for damage to adjoining buildings – even if they could not have foreseen its precise cause