All Building articles in 2002 issue 10
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Features
The Wright way
This Preston contractor gives all profit left after investment to charity, organises free holidays for deprived kids and says it only exists for the benefit of its staff. Can this really be a recipe for success? Matthew Richards finds out.
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News
Showing up the Ritz
Showing up the Ritz: Contractor ITC Concept has completed a £1m contract on the Audi exhibition and conference centre opposite the Ritz in Piccadilly, central London. The centre includes a curved glazed multimedia wall that passes through a stairwell from the ground floor to the basement. The centre has been ...
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Features
Scientific recruitment
Bill Watts of building services engineer Max Fordham tells Matthew Richards why it takes more than just an engineering degree to impress his firm
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Tony Pidgley
The king of British housebuilding talks to Phil Clark about architecture, the great British housebuilder and – after the departure of Tony Jr from Berkeley– why he ain't going anywhere yet.
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Comment
Have you noticed the time?
Contractors can have their work cut out trying to get an extension of time. But sometimes the stringent conditions placed on them can backfire on the employer
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Comment
In it up to their necks
Water companies have largely escaped liability where sewers have caused repeated flooding but from now they'll have to fix the problem or pay up
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Comment
Legal letters
Nick Henchie's guide to ways of dodging adjudication and Andrew Pike's call to scrap JCT contracts provoked a bulging postbag. Here's a small selection of readers' thoughts …
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Comment
No great Sheikhs
A case in the High Court provides an interesting angle on the obedience owed by parties to an adjudicator's decision. Let's hope they appreciate it in Qatar …
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News
Quality mark gets go-ahead
Construction minister Brian Wilson announced on Tuesday that the government’s anti-cowboy scheme would be extended across the county.
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Features
Mind the gaps
In the struggle to recruit and retain good staff, we should all be a bit more thoughtful …
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News
Game on
Game on: The shell and core of Urbis, the £30m centrepiece of Manchester's regenerated Millennium Quarter, has been completed. The centre is due to open in June, in time for the Commonwealth Games. Designed by Ian Simpson Architects, this is a "new kind of museum", which tells the story of ...
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Features
Escape from the pod people
Two young architects discovered that prefab is being taken over by developers who think it means putting toilet pods everywhere – and vowed to fight back … Martin Spring found out how they're doing
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Features
Union of dull Jacks
Brits may be the hardest workers in Europe, but the all-work-and-no-play culture doesn't make us happy or productive. And, as the results of the Building/DTI work–life balance survey suggest, a more relaxed workforce may mean a healthier balance sheet.
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Contracts
Kingswood wins V&A refurbKent-based contractor Kingswood Construction has landed 13 contracts worth £4.25m, including fit-out and refurbishment projects for the Victoria & Albert Museum and Scottish Widows.Amey lands £90m road dealSupport specialists group Amey and its partner Mouchel have won a £90m contract from the Highways Agency to service roads ...
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Comment
How far we've come
Constructing the Team suggested about 50 ways to modernise the construction industry. Eight years on, most of these have been implemented
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Features
Cost study: Coin Street housing
Haworth Tompkins’ design for Coin Street on London’s South Bank has been hailed as a new model for high-density inner-city housing. In this project review Coin Street Community Builders, Haworth Tompkins Architects and Davis Langdon & Everest look at the project’s design costs
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Features
Clear vision
Foster's clever idea was a 25 m high glass wall floating 3 m above the ground. A tall order – especially as it couldn't sway in the wind. Andy Pearson found out how Arup rose to the challenge
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News
Firms dismiss City's Railtrack fears for PFI
Mowlem and Kier have dismissed fresh claims from the City that the demise of Railtrack is threatening public–private infrastructure projects.