All Building articles in 2001 issue 20
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Features
Talent wars
Angela Baron takes a look at how employers should tackle the skills shortage to attract – and keep hold of – the high-flyers that their business really needs.
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On the ropes
Dan Bailey - Abseiling isn't yet widely used in construction, but it offers big benefits to contractors.
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News
Two port planners picked
Architect Chetwood Associates and EDAW have each won masterplans for a large port scheme.
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Features
Zaha's park-and-ride
This mundane suburban transport interchange in Strasbourg dissolves the distinction between art and architecture. Marcus Fairs discovers Zaha Hadid's latest creation.
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Features
Opening night
Given the weather we've had, a roof that opens to the elements may not be everyone's idea of happiness, but for a view of the stars, there are few things to beat it.
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Comment
Labour pains
Gus Alexander - New Labour's enthraldom to big business means we're all being held to ransom by private monopolies that don't know their elbows from a hole in the ground
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News
H is for office
Architect Patrick Davies has won detailed planning consent from Tower Hamlets council for this £150m, 13-storey office in Docklands, east London.
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Features
The good life
They feud about tea bags and rodent rights, they take afternoon tea together every day and have cycle paths in the office. Meet Feilden Clegg Bradley, the firm that won Building's best practice award.
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News
Prefab specialist goes to market
Shares in Send Group, a products firm with a modular building arm, rose 29.5p to 41.5p in its first day of trading on the alternative investment market on Tuesday.
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Features
Get paid on time
Nick Antoniou - How can businesses protect themselves against late or non-payment of invoices?
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News
WSP expands into Europe
Building services group WSP has leaped into the top three European consulting engineers with the £72.5m acquisition of a Swedish firm.
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News
Row erupts over failed Luton lottery project
£25m-turnover local contractor threatens council with judicial review over £4m arts centre.
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News
Livingstone warns EH on Heron Tower
London mayor Ken Livingstone has called on English Heritage to rethink its opposition to Heron Tower in the City.
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News
Eggstraordinary
This Alsop Architects scheme to rejuvenate the grade II-listed Victoria House in Bloomsbury has gained planning permission from Camden council in north London.
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News
Wimpey makes outsider finance director
The City this week responded cautiously to the appointment of an industry outsider as finance director of major housebuilder Wimpey.
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News
Five on list for Silvertown development
The London Development Agency has confirmed the five teams shortlisted for an £800m redevelopment of Silvertown dock in London's Royal Docks.
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News
DETR reveals sector still growing
DETR figures released this week have shown that the construction sector is continuing to grow.
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Wembley design team suspended by WNSL
Funding crisis and government rethink on project leaves design team and contractor Multiplex in limbo.