All Building articles in 2002 issue 39
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FeaturesSense and sensuality
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma synthesises Japanese traditionalism and European modernism in the form of a bamboo house in the forests of China. Sounds about right for this year's winner of Finland's Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award …
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Comment
A question of … timing
The 28-day deadline gives neither the parties nor the adjudicator proper time to ensure that quality decisions are reached. We need a more sensible period
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Features
Your neck of the woods
As in most Building regional surveys, how you’re doing depends on where you’re doing it.
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Comment
We need a New Model PFI
And about bloody time. After five years of obfuscation, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown faced down the unions in Blackpool over the PFI (see news).
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Comment
Do yourself a mischief
Construction professionals won't want to be without these new guides – even if they do have to get a hernia picking up the first, Emden's Construction Law
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News
Rouse: Legislate for quality
CABE chief executive Jon Rouse has called on the government to make design quality a statutory part of the planning system.
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Features
Lead times
Lead times continued to decline in the past quarter, with only three packages taking longer to arrive on site, according to Mace. Gardiner & Theobald reveal how technology is raising the performance of the lifts
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NewsInfusion
Birmingham architect Glenn Howells has submitted a planning application for this residential and retail scheme in the city's Eastside area for developer JG Digbeth. The Typhoo Wharf development is part of the architect's masterplan for the 7 acre site and includes 330 apartments and work spaces. Project manager is ...
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NewsHigh time
OMI Architects has won planning permission and listed-building consent to convert this 1850s cotton warehouse in Stevenson Square, Manchester, into 31 one- and two-bedroom apartments. The building is currently empty but was recently used for the growing of marijuana on an industrial scale. Structural engineer is Terry Fidler Partnership, ...
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Features
Game theory
Keeping everybody with an interest in your project happy can involve complicated strategies – that is why it's worth learning the rules …
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News
Hyder gains public listing
Consultant engineer Hyder is to be listed on the stock market after its reverse takeover of shell company Firth Holdings.
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News
Rydon wins London's first PFI housing repair scheme
Islington council to confirm decision on £20m pathfinder maintenance contract at meeting this month.
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Wilson: Recruit more ethnic minorities
Construction minister Brian Wilson this week attacked the industry for not employing enough people from ethnic minorities.
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NewsEntrancing
This internal bridge is part of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' £12.25m redesign of the foyer at the Barbican Centre in central London.Besides the bridge, work is planned on revamping entrances, signage and lighting. The project is due for completion by early 2006, but is subject to listed building consent. Project ...
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News
Industry still slowing down, says report
Data released this week shows that the UK's construction growth rate is continuing to drop, mainly because of the slowdown in the commercial sector.
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Comment
Death by exposure
The state of the professional indemnity insurance market is so bad that firms unlucky enough to be hit by several claims a year may well be ruined
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News
An unlikely hero rides to the rescue of a dastardly villain
The construction industry, dressed in a black opera cloak, shiny top hat and rather unconvincing moustache, stalked into the national spotlight on Monday.
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FeaturesIf winter comes …
The Swiss Re tower is going to be a fine skyscraper, but as demand for offices in London cools, 250,000 ft2 of it is still unlet. The forecast? Developers are going into hibernation and any contractors caught out in the open are in danger of severe exposure.
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News
CABE issues guide to PFI schools design
Architecture watchdog CABE has introduced guidelines to improve the design of PFI schools.
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News
CABE to strike PFI design deal
The Major Contractors Group and architectural watchdog CABE are close to announcing an agreement to make design one of the main criteria for assessing PFI bids.