All Building articles in 2001 issue 31
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Features
Women at work
Angela Brady of Women in Architecture talks about the group's campaign to triple the number of female architects in the next few years
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News
PFI housing projects ready to go
The first PFI housing regeneration projects are set to get under way after months of delay.
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Features
Tender price forecast
The ups and downs at a glance Current trendsup - Tender prices rose 2% over the past three months and 7.5% over the past yearup - Construction activity expanded for the 29th consecutive month in Juneup - Output in 2000 rose for a fifth consecutive year, reaching £69.53bn, or ...
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Features
Photo Finnish
Finnish timber firm Finnforest has created its own all-wood office in Lincolnshire – complete with sauna – to showcase its wares
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News
Matter of fact
Work has started on Liverpool's FACT Arts Centre for digital and film technology. The city-centre project includes three cinema screens, a bar and offices for the FACT administration team. The architect is Austin-Smith:Lord, consulting engineer is Buro Happold, contractor is Mowlem, QS is Rex Proctor & Partners and project manager ...
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Directors sued by developer
A developer has taken a writ out against two directors of a housebuilder for £750,000, alleging that they misappropriated goods to make home improvements.
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Training the key to cutting site deaths says Raynsford
Safety minister calls for end to cut-price culture in industry, as toll reaches 10-year high of 106.
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Comment
Cut and run
Sports authorities are scraping around for money to build an athletics stadium for the World Championships. Tough. The government would be crazy to fill the gap
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News
Contracts
In-house dealMarriott Construction has signed a £14.5m design-and-build contract with Whitbread Hotel Company for a 224-bedroom hotel in Leicester.HBG goes back to schoolHBG Construction has secured a £10.5m contract to build school facilities in Andover, Hampshire.EC Harris on the moveConsultant EC Harris has won a £10m contract with Mellon Financial ...
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Consultants exposed to individual claims
Individual consultants, including architects, could be held liable for negligent advice offered to clients after a legal ruling last week.
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Features
Choose your weapons
Limited liability partnerships can be a way to combine financial protection and flexibility
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Features
Chips with everything
The biggest shake-up of gambling laws for 30 years will double the number of casinos over the next decade. And industry insiders are predicting a construction bonanza as operators plan Las Vegas-style gambling emporiums.
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Comment
New wine in old champerty
Once upon a time conditional fee arrangements for court cases were unenforceable. Things are changing, but we are not yet in America
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News
HSE probes Canary Wharf site death
The Health and Safety Executive was this week investigating the death of a construction worker at a site in Canary Wharf.
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Comment
Too close to call
Should an arbitrator accept evidence from an expert witness if that witness has a close personal or business relationship with the party that engages them?
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News
Brown plans crackdown on industry's self employed
Chancellor looks to unions for assistance in beefing up toothless tax rules.
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Margins will rise, Wimpey boss promises shareholders
Chief executive Peter Johnson says profit will match those of other leading housebuilders in three years.
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Features
Foster's bomb shell
Alright, the acoustics are terrible, it's like an oven in summer, and cleaning it is a full-time job, but with the breathtaking concrete vault that brings visitors nose-to-nose with 21 warplanes – including the vast B52 bomber – it's easy to see why Foster's American Air Museum has scooped so ...
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Civil engineer bullish despite profit blow
HBG-owned civil engineer Edmund Nuttall is pinning its hopes on a strong order book for the coming year after recording a 17% drop in pre-tax profit, from £18m to £15m. The Surrey-based firm's turnover also fell by £9m for the year to 31 December 2000.