All Building articles in 2002 issue 41
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Features
EC Harris poaches two executives from rivals
Top-five QS EC Harris has poached two managers from rivals firms to beef up its facilities management and industrial divisions.The £125m-turnover firm has recruited Davis Langdon & Everest partner Matt Bennion and Atkins Faithful & Gould’s regional director Mark Howard.Bennion, 31, who joined EC Harris this week, has been given ...
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Rok axes 150 jobs in Llewellyn deal
Exeter-based contractor Rok this week announced that 150 jobs would be lost after its £16.25m acquisition of rival firm Llewellyn.Rok chief executive Garvis Snook said the job losses would come from administration and middle-management positions in Llewellyn. Workers at the south coast firm were told on Monday about the redundancies, ...
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Farrell director to head Swanke's London office
US architect Swanke Hayden Connell International has poached a Terry Farrell & Partners director to lead architectural design at its 100-strong London office. Doug Streeter will next month replace David Walker, who resigned as Swanke’s original design director in London this June. Streeter, who spent 24 years at Farrell, will ...
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Contractors face site quotas for ethnic minorities
CITB-sponsored report on black and Asian workers proposes site managers be set targets for racial diversity.
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FeaturesJust the job
Niche housebuilder Nigel Styles talks to Elise Mason about what it's like to give up a secure job and face the challenges and rewards of striking out your own
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FeaturesPlane sailing
Madrid airport's new international terminal dwarfs Heathrow's T5, yet will cost half the price and be built in half the time. Building visited the site to see why things are going so well and found political will and national pride an unbeatable mix.
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FeaturesPower to the people
As a key player in Whitehall policy-making, Richard Rogers is an unlikely champion of devolved government. But, as Marcus Fairs finds out, he now thinks urban regeneration will only happen if decision are taken by the people on the ground
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FeaturesAnd this is now
Aldershot's Royal Pavilion used to be Queen Victoria's stand for reviewing Britain's imperial army. Now it's a good spot to see the latest Californian thinking on office design
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FeaturesMoney spinners
So far Britain's record on wind farming has been all bluster and no bite. But the government's green energy policy is about to trigger a surge in investment – with plenty of opportunities for construction companies.
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NewsUnderworld marvel:
Underworld marvel: Architect Foster and Partners has won a competition to design a £150m railway station in the heart of Florence, Italy. Working with engineer Arup, the team beat off nine other high-profile architects, including Santiago Calatrava and Arata Isozaki, to win the scheme. The 45,000 m2 subterranean station will ...
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NewsMaking waves
Making waves: Developer Crosby has received planning approval for this £10m, 1650-space multistorey car park as part of a £150m mixed-use development in Clarence Dock, Leeds. The seven-storey precast concrete structure, designed by local practice Carey Jones, will be clad with undulating stainless steel mesh screen and punctuated with glazed ...
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Comment
Legal letters
This week, why it can make sense to sign an adjudicator's terms, naming and shaming poor adjudicators, support for Judge Thornton's defence of enforcement and the power of greed
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Features
Multiplex storms to top of September’s league table
Wembley win shoots Australian firm to top of league and puts it in top five for the year to October.
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Features
Save us from insurers
Insurers are grossly unfair, failing to distinguish between good roofers and the cowboys
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Comment
My Stirling Prize hell
The fashion guru dragooned onto the Stirling Prize panel lifts the lid on the five days of relentless architecture that preceded Saturday's big night
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NewsHat-trick
Hat-trick: Developer Stanhope has won three British Council of Offices awards for the first phase of its Richard Rogers Partnership-designed Chiswick Park scheme in west London. Stanhope won the “Best of the Best” award, the commercial workspace category and best commercial workspace within the M25. Other winners included Scottish Water’s ...