All Building articles in 2001 issue 44
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Comment
The pleasure principle
Surveyors and architects be warned: if you don't bring your client the happiness the contract leads them to expect, you may well be liable for damages
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News
Millennium masterplan
Architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has submitted a planning application for the redevelopment of Indescon Court on the Isle of Dogs, east London. The 88,500 m2 scheme is part of Tower Hamlets' Millennium Quarter masterplan. It is a mixed-use development of offices, luxury housing, affordable housing, live–work units, shops, cafes, bars ...
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Comment
Re-drawing the line
The Construction Act makes bizarre distinctions between what does and does not fall within its payment and adjudication provisions. Pencils out, everyone
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Features
Letter from Moscow
A quantity surveyor and feeling unloved? Don't worry – there's a Soviet-style welcome waiting in Russia
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Comment
Taking the initiative
Small firms are shut out of PFI projects because the Treasury doesn't understand what they have to offer: the difference between success and failure
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News
Wilson in talks to legitimise illegal immigrants
Construction minister aims to allow thousands of skilled migrants to work if they pass safety tests.
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Shopping in Iceland
This BDP-designed shopping centre outside Reykjavik opened last month. The 30,000 m2 Smaralind is the second mall to be built in the country, and attracted 45,000 people on its first day of trading. BDP acted as architect, interior designer, structural and M&E engineer and lighting and landscape designer. The local ...
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Features
How striking
This Bryant & May match factory, now converted into sleek 21st-century offices by Urban Splash and Shed KM, is a sign of Liverpool's growing self-confidence and commercial clout. A round-up of the city's regeneration starts with the story of its conversion.
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Wilcon profit warning leads to slump in housing shares
City loses interest in housebuilders as Wilcon announces departure of chief executive John Tutte.
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Features
What happens next?
The fallout from Railtrack's collapse isn't just financial. Jobs are under threat, suppliers are in limbo, and projects are on hold. Now contractors are being asked to pull the rail network back from the brink.
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Hilton to reinstate Gatwick job
Hotel chain the Hilton Group is to proceed with one of the large construction projects that was put on hold in the wake of September's terrorist attacks in the USA.
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Features
Market forces
Construction doesn't understand marketing, according to John Pratt, chairman of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He spoke to Marcus Fairs about his frustration with an industry that thinks his discipline is about printing more business cards
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Comment
Follow that kiwi
New Zealand has just published a Construction Contracts Bill that is much like our own Construction Act … but better. Here's how it's going to work
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News
Five vie for south-coast port plan
Five teams have been shortlisted to project manage the construction of a £600m container port in Southampton.
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Fashion pundit to make over Wimpey scheme
A Wimpey Homes development in Gateshead is, on the face of it, an unlikely place to find the cutting edge of cool design. However, this is just what may come to pass if TV fashion commentator Wayne Hemingway (right) has his way. Hemingway, founder of fashion label Red or Dead ...
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World's top engineers unite to make skyscrapers safer
Sixteen engineers meet in London to produce design recommendations for tall buildings.
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Features
Jellied eel
A London ad agency wanted a reception that would tell its clients that it was creative, show off the product and give them somewhere to sit – all on a tiny budget. This is what it got …
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Features
Degree of success
Emily Packham, training officer at architect HOK, tells Eleanor Cochrane how employees can go to university without leaving their desks