All Building articles in 2002 issue 20
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In the soup
One week you're sharing friendly lunches, the next you're at each other's throats. It's what happens when your star QS leaves – and takes your clients with him
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Skills scheming
Registration of skilled workers could be a boost for the industry – if the information was not being used for less worthy purposes such as poaching
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NewsTessellation row
Tessellation row: Daniel Libeskind has won an international architecture competition to transform the Royal Ontario Museum. The museum selected Libeskind after a public consultation, and the decision was ratified by the museum's board of trustees. Libeskind's design, called The Crystal, is for an extraordinary structure of interlocking prismatic forms. The ...
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Local lowdown
In the first of a regular regional series, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose takes a look at the state of the job market in the M3/M4 corridor
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FeaturesRushed to hospital
It's the biggest PFI hospital so far – 872 beds in 4500 rooms, costing a grand total of £180m. And it had to be built fast, or the contractor would be hit by massive penalties. No wonder the project director's watching his figures.
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FeaturesGreat lakes
Poetry and progress find architectural expression in the four magical island pavilions that form the centrepiece of Switzerland's Expo.02
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NewsGlowing revue
Glowing revue: Hoare Lea Lighting has designed and implemented a lighting installation for the Apollo Victoria Theatre in south-west London. The firm was commissioned by architect Jaques Muir & Partners to design the lighting in the grade II-listed theatre. The lighting fixtures are in the architectural detail, which conceals the ...
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FeaturesThe glass oasis
One of the IRA's unsolicited gifts to Manchester was a bombed out, wind-scoured, traffic-ridden wasteland. Martin Spring finds out how the architect turned it into Britain's dearest block of flats outside London.
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Meet the gang
Clients are people too. Get to know them better and save yourself a lot of hassle
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NewsMouchel to use flotation to fund investment in PFI
Consultant hopes to raise £30m from City to invest in PFI bids and takeovers.
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Government may extend quality mark to Scotland
Government's anti-cowboy initiative to be introduced into Scotland if local initiative fails.
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FeaturesElizabeth Whatmore
After all the shake-ups, reshuffles and departures, the Construction Directorate's new multi-tasked minder is determined to take the industry forward – by encouraging it to stand on its own two feet.
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Ferguson wins RIBA election
George Ferguson romped home with a near landslide in the bitterly contested RIBA presidential election this week.
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Five tips on creating a greener office
Cut down waste paper Use both sides of the paper when photocopying. Offices waste tonnes of paper every day, so send emails whenever possible and use scrap paper for notes. Reuse envelopes – don't be proud!Charity begins in the office Give surplus old furniture and equipment to charity. Old monitors, ...
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Countryside explains disappointing profit
Housebuilder and developer Countryside Properties has promised investors that its performance will improve in the second half of the financial year after its interim pre-tax profit rose only 2.4%.
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Contracts
Norwest lands £6m Brum jobNorwest Holst Construction has won a £6m contract from Barberry House Properties to refurbish a 1980s warehouse and office block on Birmingham's inner ring road.HN Edwards wins school dealHampshire contractor HN Edwards & Partners has secured £6m of contracts, including a £2.7m new-build school in Oxford. ...
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FeaturesChina in our hands?
Early gold could be on offer at Beijing 2008 – if the team from the British construction industry manages to bring home juicy contracts. Matthew Richards assesses its chances