All Building articles in 2003 issue 03
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Features
Construction degrees will be extinct in 10 years, says shock report
Last building student will enter university in 2012 if present rate of decline in applications continues.
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Features
Terminal 5 deal sparks fears of national M&E crisis
Contractors are predicting a crisis in the M&E sector in the wake of last week’s £55,000 pay deal for craftsmen working for Laing O’Rourke at Heathrow Terminal 5.The agreement has led to predictions that electricians on the £2.6bn terminal would respond by asking for as much as £75,000. Amicus, the ...
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Features
Consultants find their true worth
Construction professionals make a greater contribution to Britain's national wealth than all its publishers, pop groups, television stations and film companies put together, according to a report to be published by the Construction Industry Council.The CIC found that consultants are making a growing contribution to the UK's national wealth. Total ...
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Features
We love you
A shocking reports into the state of Britain's building consultants (courtesy of the CIC and the DTI) finds that they are doing amazingly well, thank you. And contributing more to UK plc's economic well being than all those music, film, fashion and media jobs put together. We crunch the numbers.
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Just the job
Marie Lelue speaks to Lucy Jolin about going from studying in Paris to managing projects in Newcastle
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FeaturesIntegration theory
Eton College has run out of space. How can it be given a mathematics faculty in a modernist style that blends with buildings apparently put up in the 15th century?
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Comment
Paddington is go
I write in response to your news article entitled "Rogers' £150m Paddington office is put on ice" (10 January, page 15).
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Comment
Get one thing straight
A common source of grief for employers is the failure to recognise that a contractor's submission is a 'request for payment'. How can you stop it happening?
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Comment
Freezing points
What scope does a court have to order that an adjudicator's award to a firm in financial difficulties be paid into court? Baldwins vs Barr may tell us …
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What the forum is for
Peter Rogers' strategic forum is a tough and capable vehicle for driving industry reform – but it should restrict itself to a few crucial objectives
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Comment
Let me first remind you of my rate
In relation to your recent correspondence on mediation, I endorse the comments of Christopher Cox (13 December, page 25).
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Features
Every which way
In the latest monthly figures – for November – we find an industry in a state of flux, with results continuing to vary month on month
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News
HOK to masterplan heart of London's West End
Architect HOK International has been asked to revitalise the shopping area of central London around Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street.
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News
What price education?
The industry has struggled from a shortage of professionals for ten years. Now with University fees and student debt going through the roof, applications to construction degrees are set to go into freefall.
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Comment
An industry turned upside down
Something miraculous occurred this week. The dirty, smelly, low-status construction industry suddenly became the year's hottest career option.