All Building articles in 2001 issue 41
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Features
What's IT worth?
As key construction players go global, the need for intranets and extranets is mushrooming. But what are the benefits of such systems and, with firms spending millions on IT every year, do they offer value for money?
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Comment
Tales of the unexpected
Ever since the Construction Act was passed, judges have been wrestling with the question of what constitutes a construction contract. Their answers have been surprising
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News
Silk screen
Some 35 acoustic reflectors make up the centrepiece of the £7m refurbishment of the much-criticised 20-year-old Barbican Hall in London.
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Comment
Be reasonable
Clients should be wary of loading contracts with terms like 'highest standards' and 'best endeavours'. Sometimes you can get more by asking for less
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Features
Tate modernised
Tate Britain's £32m redevelopment is a textbook example of current thinking on gallery and historic building refurbishment
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News
Spie increases telecoms holdings
Spie, the French electrical engineering and construction firm part-owned by Amec, has acquired a majority stake in telecoms company Matra Nortel Communications Distribution.
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Features
PFI goes global
Despite the mass of controversy around PFIs in the UK, other countries all over the world are keen to get in on the act. We investigate how British firms are exporting their PFI experience
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News
Demand for towers will grow, says Ken
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre could lead to the construction of more tall buildings in London as global companies move out of the United States for security reasons, claimed mayor Ken Livingstone.
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News
Square deal
Multidisciplinary practice Arup has submitted a planning application for the £32m mixed-use redevelopment of Bermondsey Square, south of London's Tower Bridge, on behalf of developer Urban Catalyst.
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Comment
Independence daze
How do arbitrators square their duty not to be swayed by outside pressure with their fear of being given the boot by the High Court? With difficulty, alas
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Features
Damage limitation
The World Trade Centre disaster has led to heightened concern over attacks on prominent buildings. We examine what is being done to reduce the terrorist threat and limit the damage that can be caused
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News
Unions criticise plan to relax curbs on foreign workers
Top priority should be to force construction companies to take training seriously, says union leader.
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Features
Cost study: Housing for young people
Harlow Foyer, a Housing Forum demonstration project for housing young people, used timber-frame construction and partnering principles to come in on time and on budget.
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Features
Keeping Ken cool
The arresting shape of the new home for London's mayor and the Greater London Authority is far from being its only innovative feature. The building also houses the ultimate in state-of-the-art, energy-saving air-conditioning and glazing systems.
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News
RICS demands radical rethink of flood control
Concerns that responsibility for flood control is too fragmented prompt new report for surveyors.
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Comment
Planning's chink of light
The British planning system is in a terrible state – but Lord Falconer's reforms could mean there is light at the end of the tunnel
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News
CBI lobby over threat to PFI
The CBI is leading a lobby to change a proposed European Union directive that it believes could pose a serious threat to the PFI.
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News
British firms stay put in Middle East
British companies operating in the Middle East have no immediate large-scale evacuations planned, despite this week's US-led military strikes on Afghanistan.