All Building articles in 2002 issue 45
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Features
Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider
Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow hires money man Peter Johnson as finance director.
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Features
Job-share chief to leave Redrow
Housebuilder's southern region joint chairman Greg Locke to quit at Christmas.
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Comment
What's wrong with simple?
The Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act makes collateral warranties and their bureaucratic complications redundant. Yet some lawyers seem reluctant to see them go
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NewsReady to Wear
Ready to Wear: Work has started on this £55m redevelopment of the north bank of the River Wear in Sunderland. Designed by Mosedale Gillatt Architects, the project will involve the conversion of the Barbican building at St Peter's Wharf into loft apartments. The first of four phases will comprise 60 ...
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Comment
A night on the tiles
Practising flamenco late at night in the room above mine may be your idea of fun. But if it disturbs my sleep and I take you to court, it may hurt you in the castanets
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Comment
Minority report
Weighty reports are all very well, but they're not the best way to get firms to reach out to women and ethnic minorities. We need positive recruitment practices
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FeaturesA Man and his tools
BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.
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Comment
The great unknown
Not knowing the law used to be no excuse for anything. But now the courts are telling us that it can be a helpful point to raise in a contractual dispute
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News
Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider
Taylor Woodrow has appointed an industry outsider as the group’s finance director.
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News
Report urges fresh look at London views
A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority has called for a new views policy in the capital.
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NewsUrgent review of stadium safety as firefighters strike
Building control officers carry out a reassessment of fire safety procedures as national walkout begins.
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NewsFinding your marbles
Finding your marbles: Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi has designed this proposal for the £63m New Acropolis Museum in Athens. The museum is part of Greece’s campaign to regain the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum in London. The Greek government wants them returned in time for the Athens Olympic Games ...
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FeaturesThe Fight for survival
Who needs competitors when your friends in the insurance industry can put you out of business with a single phone call? Matthew Richards reports on construction's increasingly untenable position – and how it can find a way out
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FeaturesSoho fabulous
Lifschutz Davidson's swanky revamp of 20 Soho Square should appeal to the area's media types – and, like the Ab Fab girls, it has squeezed a lot into a small space …
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FeaturesMidnight express
Heathrow Airport is so busy that it could only spare a two-hour window in which to move a 330-tonne link-bridge two miles across runways and into its intended slot. Andy Pearson joined a night-time convoy with one question on its mind: will it fit?
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Comment
Endgame on the underground
Is it nearly the end of the line for the part-privatisation of London's Tube? A year and a half after they were first chosen as the preferred bidders, the Metronet and Tube Lines consortiums were due to finalise their deals this month. But as passengers so often find, delays are ...
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News
Wimpey debt deal with US
The UK's largest housebuilder, Wimpey, has taken on £230m in cheap, long-term loans from US banks to reduce interest payments.
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FeaturesCubic feat
Architect SpacelabUK has designed a stark, geometrically pure house that sits on the Cambridgeshire countryside like a square drawn on a very flat line …