All Building articles in 2001 issue 36
View all stories from this issue.
-
Comment
Standard-bearer
The pressure is on for PFI schemes to improve design standards. Is the guidance and regulation of the design process in the health sector the way forward?
-
Features
The revolutionary
Deryk Eke is charged with ensuring the government gets the most for its money. Building talks to him about his radical plans
-
News
Stadium safety regs shaken up
The government has issued regulations for stadium design that take into account the use of venues for rock concerts.
-
Features
Just the job
Graeme Demianyk speaks to Pete Coombes about his move from yacht design to heading Assael Architecture's new visualisation department
-
News
WSP plans international shopping spree
Building services group WSP says it wants to make international acquisitions so that it can offer a global service to multinational clients.
-
Features
Inspired images
Another glossy architectural tome with the usual gleaming pictures, but as the essays from Lord Rogers and Tony Blair make clear, this is more than just coffee table fodder.
-
Features
Putting our houses in order
Recent government commitments to social housebuilding look impressive. But how much can really be delivered over the next three years?
-
News
Laing keeps hotel job out of sale
Laing is to retain liability for the refurbishment of the the Great Eastern Hotel after the sale of its construction arm to O'Rourke.
-
News
Invitation to a hanging
The British galleries at London's Victoria and Albert Museum have been revamped at a cost of £31m in the museum's largest project since the Second World War.
-
News
NHS shortlists four for PPP venture
NHS Estates has announced a shortlist of four consortiums for a public–private partnership contract to provide serviced accommodation and sell surplus NHS property.
-
Features
Fisch out of water
As beautiful as the chance meeting between a surfing fish and a horse's head in the atrium of a German bank, Frank Gehry's new conference centre has to be seen to be disbelieved. Stuart Black, thesaurus in hand, was the first reporter to pay a visit.
-
News
Oscar Faber to form sustainability group
Consultant engineer Oscar Faber has bought sustainable development specialist ECD Energy and Environment.
-
News
Passed for exhibition
Planning and listed building consent has been granted on this cinema refurbishment in Curzon Street, London W1. Additional office space on the first and second floors will be created, as well as four luxury apartments and a two-storey penthouse. Project manager and cost consultant is Cyril Sweett, architect and town ...
-
News
White Young Green enters the Olympics
Listed consulting engineer White Young Green has opened an office in Athens to service the construction boom in the run-up to the 2004 Olympic Games.
-
News
Union plans model M&E deal for megaprojects
Specialist contractors on projects worth more than £50m to be covered by employee relations agreement.
-
News
'Disciplined' Costain turned down work
Costain turned down £200m worth of work in the past year as the group took a more selective approach to construction contracts.
-
Features
Cost model: PFI projects
The government has swept aside opposition and committed itself to the use of the private sector in delivering public services. With private finance sure to have a growing role in the government’s building programme, it’s time to ask if PFI will be able to deliver. Davis Langdon & Everest reviews ...