All Building articles in 2003 issue 04
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Features
Rail labour agency hits the buffers
Collapse of Fastrack means 150 workers face loss of thousands of pounds in pay.
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Features
Industry to fight top-up fees on construction courses
Construction Sector Skills Council to call for exemptions for students on civil and ground engineering courses.
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Features
Curzon Holdings to axe 50 jobs
Parent company of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman will close Billingham plant in March.
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News
On the waterfront
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 ...
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That's the point
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.
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Comment
The pleasures of privacy
If there was ever a moment for firms to consider going private, this is it.
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Comment
The perils of Poland
Continuing our look at the peculiarities of law codes in Europe, it seems that, in Poland, developers have to protect themselves against their architects
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Features
Sorting it out
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.
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News
Stock options
With the relentless fall in the stock market leaving many construction shares severely undervalued, is now the time for firms to consider going private?
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Features
Smart moves
BSc student Christian Ennels tells Fiona Cameron why sandwich years are the tastiest option
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Comment
You may scoff …
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
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Comment
Incestuous recruitment
I write in response to your news story "Construction degrees extinct in 10 years, says shock report" (24 January, page 11).
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Comment
Wayne Hemingway vs Richard Saxon
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.
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News
The real Gosforth Park
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. ...
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Housebuilders worst hit by FTSE freefall
Housebuilders have been the hardest hit in the construction sector by the dramatic fall in the market over the past 15 trading days
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Fit for the purpose
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. ...
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Features
Flight and fight
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 …