All Building articles in 2002 issue 13
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News
Twin towers could have survived
A leaked report has suggested that the World Trade Centre could have survived the attacks of 11 September if their fire control systems had survived the impact and subsequent fire.
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NewsStirling work
Stirling work: A contemporary arts centre has opened in the Tolbooth, a converted 300-year-old grade I-listed building in Stirling. The £6m lottery-funded conversion was designed by Edinburgh practice Richard Murphy Architects for client Stirling council. It includes a 200-seat auditorium, community meeting rooms, a studio, cafe and restaurant. The Tolbooth, ...
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Features
A slice of Tibet
Caroline Sohie of Arup spent four months as resident architect on a charity project in Ladakh, India. Here, she explains the value of such placements
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Comment
Planned obsolescence
The development industry believes Lord Falconer's planning green paper is ill thought-out and will, ironically, make planning applications even more complicated
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Comment
Who owns Russia now?
Doing business in Russia became a lot easier in January after the publication of a "land code". Not that there aren't one or two little problems left …
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Comment
Where will we live tomorrow?
First transport. Then hospitals and schools. And now housing. Our latest national crisis is the shortage of affordable new homes. London is worst affected, but even Reading's prices are out of reach of nurses and teachers. Once again, we are paying for decades of underinvestment. At a time when the ...
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Comment
The loves of Lady Justice
The goddess of justice had a soft spot for consultants, and tended to take their side in tort cases. Now it seems she's found a significant other …
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Comment
Indecent proposals
This is a story about a householder who agreed to pay a dodgy builder cash, then tried to kick him in his assets when things went wrong. What did the judge say?
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NewsNo place like home
No place like home: The Home Office has finalised a deal to demolish the former home of the Department of the Environment in Marsham Street in Westminster. It will be replaced by this £244m Terry Farrell scheme. Construction is expected to start next year and will be completed by 2005. ...
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FeaturesMaking history
Manufacturer Yorkon and architect Cartwright Pickard showed at Murray Grove that modular prefab could be turned into landmark design. Now the team has taken the lessons learned there and proved it can make money as well. Marcus Fairs reports from a revolution in the making
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With the grain
With the grain: Construction starts next month on a site next to Leeds’ grade I-listed Corn Exchange where Welbeck Land is developing four storeys of apartments above shops and cafes. Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ design responds to the Victorian townscape with a chequerboard of faïence, or tin-glazed, panels. The ...
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Industry to turn strategic forum into super lobby
Construction to take over management and funding of forum and use it to campaign for common objectives.
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FMB told to 'put up or shut up' on quality mark
The government says it will exclude the Federation of Master Builders from the quality mark scheme unless it begins to support it.
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Features
Transfer fever
Council housing could soon be just a memory as local authorities hand over the keys to social landlords, who will use them to unlock billions in private finance. But will the result just make the overheating in the industry even worse? Josephine Smit takes the temperature
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FeaturesPilot error
Labour's pathfinder schemes were supposed to show what PFI could do for run-down housing estates, but after two-and-a-half years not one of the eight pilot projects has got under way. Mark Leftly finds out whether the idea will still fly …
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Reform too slow, says Egan
Egan's follow up to Rethinking Construction chides industry for slow progress and points way to future.
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FeaturesParminder Mew and the temple of doom
It looked as if the Sikh community of Southall might never get its temple – let alone the biggest one outside India – until an adventurous project manager arrived to make it happen.
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Features
European whole-life costs
The lifetime costs of building in various European countries, including construction, occupancy and labour, and – of course – location, location, location.