All Building articles in 2002 issue 02
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Comment
Transcendental mediation
An 'adjudimed' is an adjudicator with knobs on, someone who will use mediation methods to get the parties to rise above the dispute and resolve it for themselves
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News
Third time lucky?
In spite of its terrible recent record on building national arenas, the government believes it can deliver the ultimate venue – an Olympic stadium for the London 2012 games.
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Features
Just the job
Adam Withrington speaks to Derek Heffernan, Cyril Sweett's youngest associate QS, about moving to Madrid and the buzz – and anticlimax – of completing a project
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French link-up to target PFI
London-based architect David Long has formed a joint venture with French architect Brunet Saunier to target UK healthcare PFI projects.
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Pathfinder PFI finally starts in Manchester
A consortium led by contractor Gleeson and architect PRP has been appointed preferred bidder on the first of the government's Pathfinder PFI housing schemes.
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Comment
Delayed gratification
Concurrent delays and extensions of time can be a tricky issue for everyone. So why are they dodged by standard forms when two changes would sort them out?
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Comment
Questions of life and death
The Home Office is busy working on a new corporate killing law that will dramatically up the stakes on safety. It's vital that they get it right
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To D&B or not to D&B?
The Arts Council persists in using construction management as its preferred procurement route for theatre projects despite its time and cost uncertainties. Why?
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NewsCourting favour
Courting favour: The UK's first PFI crown and county court building has been completed in Belfast at a cost of £20m. Designed by the Hurd Rolland Partnership it contains 16 crime, county and magistrates' courtrooms arranged in two tiers. Public access is from a glazed mall overlooking the Laganside waterfront. ...
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FeaturesSpanish corker
The copious curves and sinuous lines of Santiago Calatrava's new winery in La Rioja, Spain, might leave visitors as woozy as the tipples prepared within – but it is a triumph of the architect's clear vision.
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Industry gives cool response to SRA plan
The Strategic Rail Authority's 10-year plan to revitalise the railway system was this week described as short-sighted by the industry.
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Contracts
Wates to build £16.8m hallsContractor Wates Construction has been awarded a £16.8m contract to build an eight-storey student accommodation block, called the Keyworth Centre, for South Bank University in Southwark, London.£3m fire refurb in StockportContractor Linford-Bridgeman has won a two-year £3.2m contract to restore Stockport’s grade II-listed Staircase House, which ...
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FeaturesClient profile - St Helens
Can you imagine a council presenting a builder with a blank cheque and asking it to put up a school? Victoria Madine meets one that did, and finds out what happened next …
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NewsTaywood: Napier is right choice
Taylor Woodrow this week defended the appointment of brewing boss Iain Napier as its chief executive.
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Tube: No cash-back pledge
ThE DTLR will not underwrite the £65m that consortiums have spent on bids for the London Underground public-private partnership deals.
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Foster and Ito get bye to Oslo shortlist
two architects with imposing world reputations, Foster and Partners and Toyo Ito, have been invited to bid for the redevelopment of a 31,000 m2 site in Oslo, Norway.
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OFT probes British Standards Institution
Building standards regulator the British Standards Institution is under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading for alleged anti-competitive practices.
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Bridge competition
Bridge competition: Work has started on a bridge over the river Stour in the historic town of Sudbury, Suffolk. Designed by architect Brookes Stacey Randall and engineer Arup, the structure is the result of an RIBA competition – the first such contest for the design of a road bridge. The ...