All Building articles in 2002 issue 03
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Working strife
If you are seeing your subbies more than your children, then you are probably working too hard. In an effort to redress the work-life balance the DTI is offering free advice to construction companies to make working life more bearable.
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Life in Yorkshire
Life in Yorkshire: Work is due to start next month on this £22m Life Sciences department at Sheffield University. The scheme, designed by local practice the Bond Bryan Partnership, has been split into four phases over the next two years, and includes the construction of a new block as well ...
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Landmark for sale
Landmark for sale: Apartments in the second and final phase of the Greenwich Millennium Village development in east London have just been put on the market. The Becquerel Court scheme is a joint venture between housebuilders Countryside Properties and Taylor Woodrow Capital Developments and government agency English Partnerships. The flats ...
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Hit squads to target slowcoach planners
The government is set to use “hit squads” of planning experts to take over from council staff in local authorities that fail to meet their planning targets.
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FeaturesHanif Kara
Hanif Kara, founding partner of structural engineer Adams Kara Taylor, knows that image can be crucial when you're building a business. So how come he's so nervous telling Marcus Fairs about his own?
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Glaxo to review online tendering
Pharmaceutical company Glaxo SmithKline is to review its online procurement procedure, which has been heavily criticised by specialist M&E contractors.
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Comment
Getting your kits off
How Airfix bombers and glue abuse are connected to plastic surgery, the moveable-type revolution, and the way CAD vandalises a child's mind …
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Features
The roads to freedom
The workplace can be a tyranny. If the customer comes first, workers must come second, and the result is stressed-out, miserable staff. Eleanor Cochrane looks at a scheme to give us our lives back, plus a chance to record your views and an account of a firm that's got it ...
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Five tips on how small firms can help staff juggle work and life
Develop clear guidelines - establish what the procedures are for changing hours, and outline which job roles have scope for flexible working. Clear guidelines will help counter any accusations that some employees appear to have more help than others.Consider the organisation’s culture - sometimes long hours are a necessity when ...
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Face-off
Face-off: Norman Foster's latest project is set to steal some of the limelight from rival Richard Rogers. Foster is planning a 23-storey building opposite his ex-partner's iconic Lloyd's Building in London's Square Mile. The project, which appears to raise three fingers at the 1986 classic, will provide about 500,000 ft2 ...
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Headlam scores easy victory in MDA vote
Shareholders at quantity surveyor MDA have voted by a large majority to retain chief executive Elaine Headlam, after an attempt to oust her late last year.
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Prince to head design lobby
The Prince of Wales has been appointed head of an international network of traditional architects and urban designers launched in London this week.
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Comment
The day of the mediator
Adjudication, for all its merits, isn't much cop for multiparty disputes. In these cases, we should restrain our scepticism and plump for mediation
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Contracts
Balfour wins £470m roadworksContractor RCS, a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty, has won two road maintenance contracts worth £470m. RCS will undertake highways maintenance for North Yorkshire and Hampshire councils. Gleeson gets Finchley planContractor MJ Gleeson has been awarded a £38m design-and-build contract for a cultural centre in Finchley, north London. ...
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Hochtief rules out UK construction purchase
German construction giant Hochtief has confirmed that it has no intention of acquiring a UK firm.
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Design watchdogs to target PFI clients
Architectural watchdog CABE is to draw up a report recommending ways of persuading PFI clients to become more involved in the design process, primarily by encouraging them to enter the prime minister’s Better Public Buildings award.
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FeaturesWorking with Christopher Wren
Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College is arguably the finest collection of early modern buildings in the UK. After being taken over by Greenwich University, it became what must be the most sensitive refurbishment project in Britain. Thomas Lane finds out how it was done.
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Elephant & Castle may harm other projects
The £1.5bn Elephant & Castle mixed-use development in south London could harm neighbouring regeneration projects, a council claimed this week.