All Building articles in 2001 issue 43
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
Stirling work
The Magna Centre, the £46m science adventure centre created inside a former steelworks in Rotherham, has won Britain's most prestigious building award, the RIBA's Stirling Prize. The popular lottery-funded project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, beat the even more popular Eden Centre in Cornwall, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, to ...
-
Features
The specialists
They're the guv'nors: the guys who get things sorted. Without their expertise, knowledge, talent and understanding of materials nothing would get built.
-
Comment
Promises, promises
Pity the subbie who thought that an oral agreement to foot a £1.3m bill could be relied on. It couldn't, and the subbie had to pay. The story begins in 1677 …
-
Features
Sir Robert McAlpine stays on top with school work
Contracts worth £85.5m, including a £40.5m education project in Scotland, enable firm to keep August lead.
-
Features
Mapping the web
E-commerce solutions could transform the way the construction industry does business – if only we could understand what they all do. Here we look at the six main types of site on offer.
-
News
Jowell to review stadium procurement
The government intends to review how sporting projects are planned after the decision not to proceed with the proposed athletics stadium at Picketts Lock.Tessa Jowell, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, announced the decision this week in a meeting at the Commons. She said the review would ...
-
Features
The invisible men
The government claims to be clamping down on illegal immigrants, so why is it apparently ignoring the thousands of foreign workers coming into the country to work on construction sites? A Building investigation suggests the situation is all too convenient …
-
News
High-Point Rendel issues profit warning
Multidisciplinary consultant High-Point Rendel this week revealed that it has set aside £3m for expected losses in the wake of the US terror attacks and action against Afghanistan.
-
News
Second helping
This £700,000 Italian bar and restaurant in Baker Street, central London, is architect Jestico + Whiles' second project for restaurateur Sami Wasis. Its other one was Hakkasan, off Tottenham Court Road, which was completed last year. The centrepiece of the 400 m2 building is three concave shells on the ground ...
-
Comment
On shaky grounds
Few neighbour disputes can match those that begin when shared foundations need work. The Party Wall Act is there to help resolve such disputes – but does it?
-
Features
Tender price forecast: Storm warning
Hold on to your hats: although tender prices are still on the up and output is entering a sixth consecutive year of growth, the outlook is gloomy, especially in the commercial new-build, retail and leisure sectors.
-
News
Fitting tribute
The office of e-commerce firm Imagine and Evolution has won this year's British Council for Offices fit-out award for the South-east region. The £925,000 City of London scheme, designed by GMW Partnership, has two work areas, meeting rooms and seating areas. The project team included contractor Ibex Interiors, QS Davis ...
-
News
Fit-out firm Spectrum doubles profit
Privately owned fit-out firm Spectrum Projects has more than doubled pre-tax profit and turnover for the year to September.
-
Features
Designajob.co.uk
Building looks at a new industry website that aims to tackle the skills shortage by targeting students and graduates
-
Features
Courting disaster?
So, who's the bad boy of global warming – the car industry, or construction? It's all to play for
-
News
Industry cool on new Railtrack
The industry has reacted coolly to government proposals that could lead to contractors being represented in Railtrack's replacement company.
-
News
Contracts
ovis bags management jobEnergy group TXU has appointed contractor Bovis Lend Lease as construction manager for its £35m UK business centre in Ipswich, Suffolk. The building is due for completion in February 2003. McAlpine wins £18.5m raceContractor Sir Robert McAlpine has won a contract to build a grandstand at York ...
-
News
Confederation to rejoin European group
The Construction Confederation is to rejoin the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) at the turn of the year, following a six-year self-imposed absence.
-
News
Scots parliament firm collapses
Bovis Lend Lease faces the awkward problem of finding a cladding contractor to replace Flour City Architectural Metals midway through work on the £230m Scottish parliament.