All Building articles in 2003 issue 13
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
Trainspotting
Balfour Beatty subsidiary Raynesway Construction has been awarded the £3.2m Edinburgh Park Station design-and-build contract. The station, which will be on the main Glasgow-to-Edinburgh railway line at Hermiston Gate, will serve the retail park and offices of Edinburgh Park, which is adjacent. The station will have passenger lifts, a footbridge ...
-
Comment
There's no such smell
I have just been catching up on last week's edition of Building and enjoyed the collection of interviews entitled "The children's crusade" (21 March, page 44). However, Jonathan Manser confused me in saying that the smell of wet concrete was one of his earliest memories. In my 35 years in ...
-
FeaturesSafesurfers
Too many professionals don't have CSCS cards because they lack safety nous. Gary Redman of NOW Recruitment explains why you shouldn't be one of them
-
Comment
A voyage to Psychotropia
"Art deco was kitsch and camp and gently surreal, and architects who take themselves too seriously have always taken it too seriously, too." Discuss …
-
Comment
Pleasure and punishment
What has compensation for the mental anguish caused by a holiday from hell got to do with the construction industry? Rather more than you may think, alas
-
Comment
An offer you can refuse?
Refuse an offer to mediate and you could end up paying the costs of litigation, win or lose. But what if that offer of mediation was just a tactical ploy?
-
News
Rivals pick over remains of Miletrian
Contractors are lining up to take over contracts held by fit-out firm Miletrian, which has gone into administrative receivership.
-
News
Wilson: You need quality mark
Construction minister Brian Wilson has warned contractors to sign up to the quality mark scheme now so that they will benefit when there is less work in the future.
-
FeaturesDo you know this man?
The enigmatic John McDonough has given his first interview since taking over at Carillion two years ago, and in it he tells Tom Broughton how he's turned the contractor into a lean, PFI-powered speedboat.
-
Comment
Know your onions
Tony Bingham Here's another take on the controversial case of the architect who got sued after specifying the wrong panels, despite the client's giving false information
-
News
Hip to be square
The first new public square for more than a century has been created in Chelsea. The first phase of Cadogan Estates’ £120m redevelopment of the former Duke of York barracks on the King’s Road is completed this week to a masterplan by architect Paul Davis & Partners. A clear-glazed cafe ...
-
Comment
In safe hands
Philip Harris' article on the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (14 March, page 54) is an interesting approach to the question of how to enforce what he calls "unpopular and ineffective legislation". But if CDM is unpopular, who is going to bother enforcing it if the Health and Safety Executive ...
-
Features
What Gordon's going to do
Helen Demuth outlines how Wednesday's Budget is likely affect VAT, National Insurance, stamp duty and corporation tax
-
News
PFI social housing scheme gets under way
The first two contracts for the government's long-delayed PFI social housing initiative have finally been signed.
-
NewsLibeskind: Ground Zero will be rebuilt in four years
Architect expects to complete framework deals this month and have key features of site finished by 2007.
-
News
Private firm to run HSE health scheme
The Health and Safety Executive is to launch a construction occupational health pilot scheme in an attempt to cut the cost of work-related illnesses.
-
News
NBA Quantum's leap of faith
Construction consultant NBA Quantum this week said it was upbeat about its prospects – despite posting a loss of £65,000 for the six months to 31 December.
-
Comment
So much energy, so little time
I am writing in response to your piece on the government's energy white paper (28 February, page 15), which outlined targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from buildings. A few days later, the government announced a much-needed £20m grant aid programme to stimulate the installation of photovoltaic cells in buildings.Fronted ...
-
News
Receiver in at Dundee firm
Dundee leisure and hotel contractor Thomas Justice & Sons has gone into receivership.