All Building articles in 2001 issue 25
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Success storeys
Architect John McAslan & Partners has received detailed planning consent for a 12-storey tower with landscaped park at 60 Fenchurch Street, in the City of London.
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Sounding off
The debating chamber of the Greater London Authority building has very precise acoustic requirements. But how could the acoustician communicate these to designers unfamiliar with the "black art of sound"?
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Tales from the riverbank
Nearly 200 ministers, MPs and industry leaders attend Building's annual Commons terrace reception.
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Industry standard
As repeat clients become more common, construction can benefit from standardisation
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Comment
Hold on to the Rottweiler
Going into a dispute with all guns blazing may make you feel better, but it's a lousy way of keeping business and may well cost you an arm and a leg
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Comment
Was Heseltine right?
Regeneration Despite its efforts, the government is still failing to tackle urban deprivation. We look at why it's so hard to make a difference
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Reshuffle at top of Interior Service Group
David King, head of interior and facilities management group Interior Service Group, is to transfer day-to-day responsibility for running the firm to finance director Robert Horvath.
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Government set to insist on training quotas
Transport minister considering quotas to head off labour problems experienced on the Jubilee Line.
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Good grounding
Two "earth-sheltered" buildings – structures that are partially buried – were completed this week in Mile End Park in east London.
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Raynsford: 'The industry shot itself in the foot'
Former construction minister expresses shock at abolition of DETR and says industry lobbied for DTI move.
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Farrell and Dwyer lead industry honours
Architect Terry Farrell and engineer Joe Dwyer led the roll-call of construction industry figures honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours last Saturday. Both received knighthoods.
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Scottish parliament project director resigns
The troubled Scottish parliament project in Edinburgh suffered a fresh blow this week when the project director resigned.
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MCG to publish safety details
The Major Contractors Group is set to publish reports into its members' safety performance within the next two weeks.
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In deep water
Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre in Hackney was supposed to show how first-rate public buildings could tackle urban deprivation. Now it is two years late, four times over budget, and the council is slashing public services. How did it all go so wrong?
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Foster urges culture of quality
Lord Foster last week challenged the new Labour government to keep up its drive towards procuring better quality public buildings and infrastructure, writes Hannah Baldock.
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Comment
Triumph at court
Where a parent company pays for loss incurred by a subsidiary, the subsidiary can still be compensated – even though the parent was not a party to the contract