All Building articles in 2003 issue 02
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Features
Skilled workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 to earn £55,000
Laing O’Rourke and construction unions reach pay agreement as BAA reveals plans to employ refugees on T5.
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Terminal 5 pay deal shocks electricians
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, ...
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BAA training programme aims to 'permanently improve' construction
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 ...
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Comment
Words of warning
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 …
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Can you take the tablets?
There were some great gizmos in your digital construction special (13 December).
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Stop at nothing
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
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Next stop
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.
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We need a new tax
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 …
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Mancunian prize
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, ...
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Ken Shuttleworth
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?
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Inside job
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.
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Old Town, new ideas
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 ...
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Comment
Help, the mastic leaches!
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".
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The great training robbery
I read with interest Wayne Hemingway's column on Britain today (10 January, page 26).
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Prescott to use Tory powers for Thames Gateway plan
Government adopts mechanism pioneered by former Tory minister Heseltine for regeneration of 4000 ha site.
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On the home front
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
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Sport England seeks minder for Wembley
Wembley stadium backer Sport England is seeking a consultant to monitor the construction of the £757m project in north London.
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Where the sun don't shine
It always interests me how the national press likes to perpetuate the "grim oop north" stereotype.