All Building articles in 2001 issue 45

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  • Features

    Treading water

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    It's a little tougher at the top, according to the 2001 Hays Montrose/Building executive salary guide. But with salaries static, many companies are sweetening the pill with increased perks. Victoria Madine and Alex Smith peer into the wage envelope.

  • Features

    Transformer

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The Rochford Boiler House power station in Essex has always been an impressive building to look at. Now it's a desirable place to live, after £2.7m was spent converting it into funky apartments

  • Comment

    Can I have some more?

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    When it comes to adding interest on to adjudication claims, justice has nothing to do with it. Confused? Just be glad you're not an adjudicator

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 2 November 2001

  • Features

    War poetry

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Crashing metallic forms representing a battle-torn globe make up Daniel Libeskind's first British offering. And yet, says Martin Spring, the Imperial War Museum North is also an ode to curvature and tricks of the light.

  • News

    Lifesaver

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The 953-bed Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals ever built in a single phase, will open its doors to patients this month. The £170m facility, which replaces two existing hospitals, is at the edge of the city next to the University of East Anglia. Built by ...

  • News

    Solution in sight for Laing's NPL nightmare

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    LAING expects to reach an agreed solution with the DTI before Christmas over problems at the £300m National Physical Laboratory PFI project in west London.

  • Comment

    A letter from Hong Kong

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    How has Britain's former colony fared since it was handed back to the People's Republic? Here's the view on the ground of one QS who is working there

  • News

    Home shopping

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Architect Piercy Conner is to build a fully operational "micro-flat" in a window at Selfridges' London store.The practice is looking for two key workers, or young professionals, to live in the flat for two weeks as part of a campaign to highlight the need for affordable housing in London. They ...

  • News

    Rosebud Heights

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has been called in to complete a New York skyscraper begun by newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst, the man who inspired Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane in 1928. The architect has designed a high-tech 42-storey tower of 80,000 m2 to go with the six-storey stone-faced base built ...

  • News

    Spending watchdog to give thumbs-up to PFI

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    PFI is due to receive a major boost from a report to be published later this month by spending watchdog the National Audit Office.

  • Features

    The skyscraper of the future

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    … is taking shape as the best minds in structural engineering unite to work out what design changes will improve safety in tall buildings. Andy Pearson finds out what they've decided so far

  • Features

    Femme fatale

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Once rumoured to have called for the bosses of English Heritage to have their heads put on spikes, Judith Mayhew is a ferocious fighter for the development of the City. Mark Leftly meets London's top planner.

  • News

    Egan lines up Simon Murray to update report

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Former Railtrack boss tipped for Rethinking Construction sequel, despite concern among forum members.

  • News

    DTI plans to off-load quality mark

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The government's quality mark scheme could be handed over to the industry and funded by contractors' subscriptions.

  • Comment

    Two go mad in Devon

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Why do people pretend that arbitrators are wigless judges? As the parties to Pillar vs Edwards found out, you can pay through the nose for very rough justice

  • News

    Walsall to set PFI design standard

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Four architects are competing for a £45m hospital in Walsall that is to be used as a yardstick for design quality in PFI healthcare projects, writes Stuart Black.

  • Features

    Dear Robert

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Hays Montrose's Robert Smith throws light on permits for working as a property agent in the UK, and suggests striking a balance at the Christmas party

  • Comment

    Two's a crowd

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Tough developers who try to cut costs by getting Sir Raphael Bowtie to do the concept and Cheapskate & Prune the execution are just asking for trouble

  • Features

    Cost update:

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Input costs and output prices are both on the way down, according to Davis Langdon & Everest, while plumbers are enjoying a wage rise