All Building articles in 2001 issue 35
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Spirit of Southampton
Southampton might not be everyone's idea of the most exotic city in the world – but try growing up in Salisbury
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Up and running
In 2002, Manchester will host the Commonwealth Games, and the east of the city will undergo radical changes to prepare for it. From the ambitious expansion of its airport to the troubled regeneration of the area around the new Sportcity, Building takes a look at the city's most exciting and ...
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Pressure points
The line between actionable economic duress and "the rough and tumble of the pressures of normal commercial bargaining" is a thin one
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Organic medicine
A clinic for children designed by Baker-Brown McKay for a parkland site in Brighton has won planning permission. The building is to be developed and run by Dolphin House, which specialises in complementary therapy. Landscape architect Studio Engleback has designed a suitably tranquil environment by allowing the countryside to enter ...
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Roads hold the key to quality housing
The government intends to publish guidance on quality housing, an initiative widely seen as a response to claims that it has relaxed curbs on higher density housing.
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HBG office move heralds further PFI growth
HBG Construction is to centralise its PFI business in Glasgow.
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Universities at fault over safety, says report
A report blames universities for poor safety in construction, saying that courses fail to emphasise health and safety training.
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Flight of fancy
This £2.7m dinosaur museum shaped like a pterodactyl has opened at Sandown on the Isle of Wight. It was designed by local architect and QS Rainey Petrie Design. The museum is made of crinkly tin and is fronted by a spiky steel structure representing the prehistoric flying reptile. The museum ...
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Heart failure
The Commonwealth Games studium may be a triumph, but the £2bn regeneration scheme that was to go with it has run into the buffers.
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Digging the new
Laser-scanning photogrammetry from helicopters? Video glasses connecting site workers together through the internet? You ain't seen nothing yet …
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Race starts for Whitehall design role
Arts Minister Tessa Blackstone has emerged as a rival to planning minister Lord Falconer for the role of overall design champion for public sector building.
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Half of industry faces fines over pension delays
Firms have only five weeks to sign up to stakeholder pensions or face penalties of up to £50,000.
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Dear Robert
This month, tips on how to return to the employment market after redundancy and strategies for recruiting the best bright young things
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Don't be daft
When is a decision not a decision … but still counts as one? Lord Reed's answer to this riddle helps us understand when the courts can overrule adjudicators
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Still counting
Six months after the government warned construction to improve site safety or face the consequences, the death toll continues to mount. Is the industry now living on borrowed time?
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Cost update
The rise in construction activity has led to a sharp increase in hourly rates in the M&E sector, particularly in London. Davis Langdon & Everest looked at what this has meant for wage deals and the prices of key components
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Corus sets up firm to deliver prefab rail platforms
Steel giant aims to cash in on public spending boom by creating modular solutions for railway stations.
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Contracts
Quarmby lands £4.5m press HQ QuarmbyConstruction has won a £4.5m contract for a three-storey headquarters of the Press Association at Howden, near Goole.£6.3m unit deal for FitzpatrickContractor Fitzpatrick has landed a £6.3m design-and-build contract from Map Vent developments for a steel portal frame industrial unit with offices in Dover.YJL to ...
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LU rejects claim that PPP is flawed
London Underground has dismissed a report claiming that the part-privatisation of the Tube will be £2.5bn more expensive than running the scheme publicly.