All Building articles in 2003 issue 02

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  • Features

    Skilled workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 to earn £55,000

    2003-01-17T15:16:00Z

    Laing O’Rourke and construction unions reach pay agreement as BAA reveals plans to employ refugees on T5.

  • Features

    Terminal 5 pay deal shocks electricians

    2003-01-17T15:14:00Z

    THE LANDMARK deal agreed between Laing O’Rourke and the construction unions has transformed the position of electricians’ union Amicus in its negotiations with M&E contractors over a national pay deal for major projects.Amicus is upset about the T5 deal because it breaks the understanding that it had reached with BAA, ...

  • Features

    BAA training programme aims to 'permanently improve' construction

    2003-01-17T15:12:00Z

    Airports operator BAA is planning to build three training centres for workers at the £2.5bn Heathrow Terminal 5 project in west London.Carillion has been in talks with BAA officials this week to build a training facility on the T5 site that will enable workers to acquire skills and gain CSCS ...

  • Features

    Workshop

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    This week, stand up for your lights, learn curtain-walling for dummies, check up on your home over the internet while you bookmark the latest construction websites …

  • Comment

    Words of warning

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Consultants who rely on net contribution clauses in their terms of appointment may not have the protection that they think they do. Here's why …

  • Comment

    Can you take the tablets?

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    There were some great gizmos in your digital construction special (13 December).

  • Comment

    Stop at nothing

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    A case in the Scottish courts has underlined the fact that adjudication must be effective – even if the parties have to forgo some of their basic rights

  • News

    Next stop

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    This bus station, planned for Warrington, Cheshire, has received £6.3m of government transport improvement funding to go with £2.5m contributed by Legal & General. Warrington council has appointed architect Austin Smith:Lord and consultants WSP and Drivers. Public consultation on the scheme will take place over the next few months.

  • Comment

    We need a new tax

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Industry Scheme was an attempt to retain everything that is oppressive and antiquated in our industry. And it's about to get worse …

  • News

    Mancunian prize

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Architect John McAslan + Partners has won a competition to be lead designer on 3 Hardman Square in central Manchester. Others to take part in the competition included Austin-Smith:Lord and Carey Jones. The 16,000 m2 mixed-use commercial building will be part of the Spinningfields development in central Manchester, ...

  • Features

    Ken Shuttleworth

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    He's transformed the London skyline, conceived the form of the world's largest building and his design for Ground Zero is wowing New York. So why have so few people heard of him?

  • Features

    Inside job

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Demolishing the interior of a Victorian post office in Edinburgh while retaining its neo-renaissance facade was never going to be easy – particularly as the site is hemmed in by busy roads, a bridge and a railway station. We find out how it is being done.

  • News

    Old Town, new ideas

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    An unofficial competition has been launched for the regeneration of Cowgate in Edinburgh, part of which was destroyed by fire late last year. The organisers – Adrian Welch, of local practice Edinburgh Contemporary Architecture, and Dan Frydman, managing director of design firm Indigo Media – hope that ideas from the ...

  • Comment

    Help, the mastic leaches!

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    With reference to the Hansom piece "Dull metal jacket" about the National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield (13 December, page 21), I believe that a response is required to explain why the building looks a "tad jaded".

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    We have nothing to offer you this week but blood, sweat, tears, sacrilege, adultery and a bottle of champagne to wash down your Whiskas supermeat

  • Comment

    The great training robbery

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest Wayne Hemingway's column on Britain today (10 January, page 26).

  • News

    Prescott to use Tory powers for Thames Gateway plan

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Government adopts mechanism pioneered by former Tory minister Heseltine for regeneration of 4000 ha site.

  • Comment

    On the home front

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    TV makeover shows have their place, but the latest pushes the boundary between fix-up and serious building – which puts it into the legal danger zone

  • News

    Sport England seeks minder for Wembley

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Wembley stadium backer Sport England is seeking a consultant to monitor the construction of the £757m project in north London.

  • Comment

    Where the sun don't shine

    2003-01-17T00:00:00Z

    It always interests me how the national press likes to perpetuate the "grim oop north" stereotype.