All Building articles in 2003 issue 04

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  • Features

    Rail labour agency hits the buffers

    2003-01-31T09:42:00Z

    Collapse of Fastrack means 150 workers face loss of thousands of pounds in pay.

  • Features

    Industry to fight top-up fees on construction courses

    2003-01-31T09:38:00Z

    Construction Sector Skills Council to call for exemptions for students on civil and ground engineering courses.

  • Features

    Curzon Holdings to axe 50 jobs

    2003-01-31T09:34:00Z

    Parent company of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman will close Billingham plant in March.

  • Features

    Workshop

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    You've had the freak weather warnings, the water's rising, your house is about to be flooded – what to do? Wrap yourself in cling film, reach for the flood survival kit and let the rest of this week's products wash over you

  • News

    On the waterfront

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    A team including architect Building Design Partnership and developer ING has won a competition to develop Waterfront City, an £180m masterplan for the docklands of Melbourne, Australia. The team beat a group headed by local firm MAB to win the contract for the project, which will include housing, entertainment and ...

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

  • News

    That's the point

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    At 120 m, Ian Ritchie's Dublin spire has been hailed as the tallest sculpture in the world. Last week, Ireland's largest crane put in place the final piece of the spire, which is part of a project to regenerate O'Connell Street, the capital's main thoroughfare.

  • Comment

    The pleasures of privacy

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    If there was ever a moment for firms to consider going private, this is it.

  • Comment

    The perils of Poland

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Continuing our look at the peculiarities of law codes in Europe, it seems that, in Poland, developers have to protect themselves against their architects

  • Features

    Sorting it out

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    The black art of logistics used to be organised by a whiteboard and a magic marker. Now software is being developed that can ensure the most complex jobs are run with optimal efficiency.

  • News

    Stock options

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    With the relentless fall in the stock market leaving many construction shares severely undervalued, is now the time for firms to consider going private?

  • Features

    Smart moves

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    BSc student Christian Ennels tells Fiona Cameron why sandwich years are the tastiest option

  • Comment

    You may scoff …

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    If Jonathan Meades wants to let us know that Bovis' site canteen isn't as good as Le Gavroche, we're forced to agree – but, er, that's because it's a site canteen

  • Comment

    Incestuous recruitment

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    I write in response to your news story "Construction degrees extinct in 10 years, says shock report" (24 January, page 11).

  • Comment

    Wayne Hemingway vs Richard Saxon

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    I write in response to your recent column by Wayne Hemingway (10 January, page 26) which, among other things, was intended to set us thinking about the paltry amount that most of us do to improve the environment.

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    This week, the man in the stupid hat discovers the truth about Paris Moayedi, hears Ken Livingstone get a ticking-off and makes an explosive discovery

  • News

    The real Gosforth Park

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Construction has started on the £3.3m Gosforth Business Park development in Newcastle upon Tyne. It will consist of three storeys of high-quality open-plan office space. Completion is due in October. The 35,000 ft2 scheme was designed by architect Ryder, main contractor is Miller Construction and developer is Rokeby/AWG. ...

  • News

    Housebuilders worst hit by FTSE freefall

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have been the hardest hit in the construction sector by the dramatic fall in the market over the past 15 trading days

  • News

    Fit for the purpose

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Fitness industry giant Aspria opened its latest health club in Alstertal in Hamburg, Germany, at the end of last year. The £9m facility, measuring some 11,000 m2 – the largest in the Aspria chain – was designed by UK architect Colwyn Foulkes & Partners with Stiff + Trevillion Architects. ...

  • Features

    Flight and fight

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    SOM's competition-winning design for Nato's headquarters in Brussels not only encourages co-operation between the expanding alliance's member states, it also comes with wings …