All Building articles in 2001 issue 37
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Features
A suitable standard
Designers are swamped with a host of quality assurance standards, which causes confusion
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News
Retail therapy
A team led by developer Hammerson has beaten off British Land and Multi Development Corporation to develop a retail quarter in the centre of Sheffield. The team, which includes lead architect Building Design Partnership, was picked by Sheffield council and urban regeneration company Sheffield One. Hammerson's project team includes urban ...
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Features
Teachers' pet
Jarvis has established itself as the firm to beat in the education market. Building finds out how
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Features
Ring master
Barton Willmore's riverside HQ Thames Water is an oasis of civic design in the architecture desert of Reading's city centre.
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Features
Rebuilding lives
Gordon Wordsworth, general manager of Sheffield Rebuild, tells Graeme Demianyk why he decided to prioritise social duty over profit-making
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Features
Lead Times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald puts brickwork in the spotlight
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'Hospitals should be like supermarkets'
NHS Estates' acting chief Peter Wearmouth has to please doctors, patients and contractors. How?
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News
New MD readies PCM for growth
Consultant and construction manager PCM has appointed a new managing director ahead of a growth surge at the firm..
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Comment
Yankee, go home
Dominic Helps argued that US-style no win, no fee arrangements sit well with adjudication. In fact, he's wrong: they could give all parties a rougher deal
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Comment
Give us the tools
Regeneration The government is finding it difficult to deliver its regeneration policy. It needs to clear away the bureaucratic obstacles.
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News
Skyscrapers face uncertain future
This week's acts of terrorism in the USA could hit the development of tall buildings in the UK.
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News
Entrepreneur of the Year
Six of the industry's brightest young companies have been shortlisted for the 2001 Building Entrepreneur of the Year Award, sponsored by Local Authority Building Control.The shortlisted firms are:Cadweb, set up to provide project extranets for constructionCMInternational, UK and Hong Kong-based construction managerGusto Construction, the Nottinghamshire housebuilderIntegra, the Brighton-based contractor that ...
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Government reviews future of English Partnerships
Role of regeneration body under the spotlight as Regional Development Agencies' power expands.
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Features
healthcare investment outside england
ScotlandScotland is currently investing nearly half a billion pounds in the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the Scottish NHS. Four new hospitals are complete, with two due to be finished by the end of this year, and another two by the end of 2003. Half of these ...
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Features
The water engine
A chance observation in a Moroccan bus gave Charlie Paton an idea that could transform the agriculture of poor and infertile countries around the world. Building finds out how it works
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Comment
A drinking problem
Contractors tempted to forgo a contract and agree things over a pint, be warned. Adjudication won't protect you when you fall out over whose round it is
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Comment
Don't plead in vain
If you're claiming an interim payment as a result of variations to contract, be careful how you set out your demand. If you're not clear enough, you won't get paid
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Features
Do you dig it or don't you?
The CITB wants to attract more young people into building. So, is its latest poster campaign a real, right on, happening event – or just a bit embarrassing? Building asked the yoof of south London
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Features
Difficult sums
Right you lot, pay attention. If 100 firms bid for government investment of £8.5bn over three years, how many will make as much money as they expect to? Is it (a) all of them, (b) only the ones who know the PFI market, or (c) it depends on the government's ...