All Building articles in 2002 issue 15
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NewsWarm Wellcome
Warm Wellcome: Medical charity the Wellcome Trust has approved a masterplan by US architect NBBJ for an £80m extension to its genome research campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. NBBJ won a competition to design the 24,000 m2 project late last year. The drawings have been submitted to South Cambridgeshire council. Fuller ...
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Suit yourself
You don't have to go bespoke to get a contract that suits. A nip here, a cut-and-paste clause there, can keep everyone happy. Just be careful with the scissors
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Sharewatch
If you want to get an idea of the size of the job still facing the sector in trying to change its image among the investing community, check out the recent coverage of Henry Boot's results in the City pages.It seems that most newspapers can't put the idea that construction ...
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Poor Superman
Referees are supposed to be the superheroes in construction disputes. Now they're just as likely to be cast as persecutor – before turning into victim
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Out of the question
The art of asking the right questions is one that construction could do well to learn
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FeaturesMaking waves
Architect Niall McLaughlin's radical, curvy seaside bandstand was designed using cutting-edge software borrowed from the product design industry and built using traditional joinery.
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McAlpine poaches YJL man for key role
Alfred McAlpine has snapped up Keith Lambert, currently managing director of YJL subsidiary Walter Lilly, to be future head of its special projects division.Lambert will join McAlpine on 8 May as deputy managing director in charge of the firm’s southern division. He is expected to succeed Bob Blythen as managing ...
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Try to lead Housing Forum
Hugh Try is to take over from Sir Michael Pickard as chairman of the Housing Forum, the body formed to promote the Egan agenda in the housebuilding sector.
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NewsFirst and last
First and last: Ainsley Gommon Architecture and Urban Design has gained planning approval on behalf of Wirral council for a pavilion to be built in Birkenhead Park. It will house a visitor centre, cafe, toilet facilities, and the park ranger’s offices. An internal planted spine wall curves the length of ...
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Firms face jail over illegal labour
Immigration officers will soon be entitled to enter building sites to look for illegal immigrants, and contractors could face jail under proposed legislation covering illegal work.
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Watchdog urges MoD to share PFI experience
Civil service expertise built up on the £746m PFI upgrade of the Ministry of Defence’s Whitehall headquarters should be spread across the government, says the National Audit Office.
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Early risers
Chrissie Chadney, head of training at Willmott Dixon, talks about the group's ‘reach out’ initiative that encourages teenagers to choose a career in construction
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Don't you want me?
They have just turned in another bumper set of results, southern Britain doesn't have anything like enough homes and chief executives are shouting their successes from the rooftops. So why does the City still treat housebuilders like lepers?
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NewsDome management 'not fraudulent', says watchdog
Investigation into New Millennium Experience Company criticises procurement but refutes claims of fraud.
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Humane modernist Peter Shepheard dies
Sir Peter Shepheard, who worked in architecture, planning and landscape design, has died aged 88.
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FeaturesDavid Mackay
The architect who played a key role in making Barcelona the best-designed city in Europe is not trying to bring the Catalan touch here. We already have it – all we need to add is great design, civic pride and public money.
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Liverpool tenants vote to quit council
LIVERPOOL cOUNCIL tenants in the east of the city this week voted to transfer 13,500 council homes to registered social landlords.
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Contracts
Bovis lands £45m airportContractor Bovis Lend lease has won a contract to build a £45m airport at the Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire for client Tag Aviation.Reading picks preferred QSsRidge and Partners, Gleeds and Citex have been picked as framework QSs for the University of Reading for five years.Birse wins £32m ...
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Wilson should quit 'neglected' construction, says Tory MP
Ex-construction minister Robert Key claims Wilson's construction brief is overwhelmed by energy needs.