All Building articles in 2002 issue 27
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NewsWhat planet are we on?
What planet are we on? The £3.8m Earth Centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, designed by Bill Dunster Architects, is one of eight projects shortlisted for the second Better Public Buildings award, won by the Tate Modern last year. The other seven schemes are: the City Learning Centre, Bristol; the Gateshead ...
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FeaturesMetal Michelangelo
Bill Tustin is a huge Sid James-soundalike with the mind of an angel and the beard of a gnome who can build and price structures as complex as the London Eye in his head while making clothing out of the bowels of journalists. Marcus Fairs spends a happy afternoon being ...
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NewsSweetness and light
Sweetness and light: A £6m complex of arts, media studios, shops, galleries and a restaurant has been built as part of the £30m Custard Factory regeneration scheme in Birmingham. Known as the GreenHouse, the building has gondola-like balconies suspended in front of the facade. It was developed and designed by ...
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Lead Times
The lead times for this quarter are continuing to decline, reports Mace, thanks to better relations with the supply chain and decreasing pressure on design offices. And overleaf Gardiner & Theobald reveals a positive outlook for curtain walling companies – despite the tougher standards of the new Part L
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FeaturesA taste of its own medicine
HM Treasury has given the PFI the ultimate endorsement – by using it to transform its own Whitehall property. And by awarding the job to a premier league project team, it has proved that a public–private partnership doesn't have to mean cheapskate design
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Unbelievable hilarity
Heard the one about the new woman on site? No, didn't think so – there are almost none. So why does the press think recruiting them is such a giggle?
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London group questions Ken's plan
A GROuP of central London council officers and businesses will tell Greater London Authority officials next week that mayor Ken Livingstone's £100bn vision for the capital is unrealistic.
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NewsHolding the front page
Holding the front page: The £3.8m Newsroom, an archive of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in Farringdon, London, was completed last month for Guardian Newspapers. The refurbished Victorian building, originally constructed as a bonded warehouse, houses a library, exhibition centre and lecture hall. The team included contractor Killby & ...
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NewsWates and Gleeson fall out over Knightsbridge station
Refurbishment of London Tube station to be delayed six months as contractors tread on each other's toes.
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NewsHousebuilders face double whammy on social housing
Oxford council raises affordable housing quota to 70% as Housing Corporation issues funding warning.
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Don't forget to write
Whether or not you get a fair deal in a dispute will ultimately come down to the strength of your case – and whether you have the records to prove it
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Design Quality Indicator
The Construction Industry Council has produced a standard means of assessing design quality. But does it work?
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FeaturesSink or swim: DQI on test at Darlaston Pool
As The DQI building appraisal system uses similar criteria to those used in Building's "Building revisited" series, Building decided to return the complement. Here the DQI is itself appraised in one of its pilot projects, a post-occupancy appraisal providing feedback from a recently completed building. This is the award-winning Darlaston ...
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Contracts
Morrison's £36m hospitalMorrison Construction has been awarded a £36m contract to build a 21,000 m2 hospital for Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Trust in Headington, Oxfordshire, by Albion Healthcare Consortium. Bourne lands car park dealsBourne Steel's car park arm, Bourne Parking, has won two contracts totalling £3.2m from Matra BAe Dynamics and ...
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Contractor Stenoak goes into receivership
Roads contractor Stenoak was this week placed in receivership, two weeks after its shares were suspended on the alternative investment market.
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Tropus vindicated in select committee report
a select committee has endorsed many of the findings of former Wembley stadium project manager Tropus.
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ISE: How skyscraper design must change
The structural design of tall buildings should change in the wake of the World Trade Centre collapse, a report said this week.