All Building articles in 2002 issue 26
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NewsRunners and riders
Runners and riders: Ascot has submitted plans for a £180m redevelopment of the racecourse. The plans, designed by HOK Sport, include a stand incorporating an internal galleria and hotel and a parade ring. The racecourse has spent five years preparing plans, which were submitted to Windsor and Maidenhead council last ...
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FeaturesResurrection symphony
Bringing a derelict, roofless church back to life and converting it into a state-of-the-art recording studio for one of London's great orchestras was always going to take more than one weekend. The dead cows and eleven hundred corpses didn't help, either.
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Comment
Same old precedent
In the old adversarial world, sneaky contractual devices were part of the territory. But such things are soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history – aren't they?
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NewsMultiplex shock at Paddington
australian contractor Multiplex has made a dramatic late entrance as a bidder for the £150m Grand Union office building in Paddington, west London.
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NewsOh what a lovely war museum
Oh what a lovely war museum: Daniel Libeskind's acclaimed Imperial War Museum North opens in Manchester today. The £30m museum has been described in Building as "quite simply the most sculptural landmark building to be seen in Britain in modern times". Project manager was Gardiner & Theobald, structural engineer was ...
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Features
Just the job
Turner & Townsend quantity surveyor Tanya Jeffrey on how the latest leg of a globe-trotting career has taken her to a silicon chip plant in tropical Borneo
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Research funding under review
The funding system for building and architectural research in universities was put under the spotlight this week over accusations of unfairness.
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NewsStately pleasure dome
Stately pleasure dome: Southampton-based contractor Trant has handed over this £5m interactive exhibition centre at Mornhill, Winchester, to client Hampshire Technology Centre Trust. The centre, due to open next month, will include more than 100 interactive exhibitions and displays within the pyramid-shaped building and a 200-seat lecture theatre within the ...
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NewsJack the Dipper
Jack the Dipper: This stairwell was joint winner of the Hot Dip Galvanizing Awards for 2002, as judged by the Galvanizers Association. Designed by Plasma Studio, the Silversmith's Workshop refurbishment in London was praised for its creation of a translucent spiral landscape. Contractor was Arco Grating, steel contractor was Advanced ...
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Comment
Desperately seeking Susans
The case of Louise Barton, the latest City high-flyer to sue her employer for discrimination, is a reminder of construction's perennial prejudices. With a booming industry fretting over labour shortages, the debate has centred on whether to assimilate foreign labour or retrain over-25s – mostly men, one suspects. Yet women, ...
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Eight vie to redesign crime ridden Portsmouth district
Alsop, Broadway Malyan, PRP, Fluid and Llewelyn-Davies head shortlist for 4300-home regeneration scheme.
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Comment
The cricket test
It probably isn't a coincidence that England's cricketers started performing after they were given guaranteed places. And therein lies a moral for construction …
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NewsRouse: Crack down on nimby councils
The chief executive of architectural watchdog CABE has called on the government to punish councils that refuse planning permission to well-designed housing schemes.
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Comment
Just cool it
A draft delay protocol is supposed to take the heat out of the contentious area of delay. But as it stands, it could simply makes things worse
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Contracts
Balfour wins £120m water dealContractor Balfour Beatty has won a £120m, three-year contract to upgrade Yorkshire Water's clean water distribution network.Mansell's £2.1m hat trickMansell's office in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear has won three contracts with Home Housing Association worth £2.1m. They include a £1.2m housing scheme in Bradford.£2.5m college job ...
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Women in construction
Girlzone - A visit to the small construction college in Kent that is demolishing the industry’s macho image
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Features
Chester police escort HBG to top spot in May
Dutch contractor signs deals worth £126m while Sir Robert McAlpine and Bovis dominate yearly table.
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Laing changes PFI rules
Laing revealed this week that its pre-tax profit will be £2m lower than the £47m predicted, as a result of changes in the way the group accounts for PFI bid costs.