All Building articles in 2003 issue 15
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Features
Galliford Try to axe jobs and close Plymouth office
Shake-up at contractor-housebuilder means staff cuts will also affect Leeds and Maidstone arms; most will be redeployed in London branches.
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DTI set to relocate 2000 staff
The DTI is considering moving more than 2000 clerical staff out of its offices in Victoria Street, central London.A Whitehall source said that the lease would have to be renegotiated soon and senior officials were looking for other offices because they expected the cost to rise sharply. The department has ...
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Transformation on the Tyne
A £13m headquarters for the Government Office for the North East has started on site at Citygate in Newcastle upon Tyne. The office building, designed by Ryder will accommodate 400 staff. The project is part of the regeneration of the St James Boulevard area of the city. Contractor is Amec, ...
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Comment
More realpolitik, please
I had to read your article "Don't expect any hand-outs from US, Wilson tells firms" twice, as I thought I must have misread what Brian Wilson had said (4 April, page 13).
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More punishment, please
Melinda Parisotti alarms contractors and consultants unnecessarily in her rticle "Pleasure and punishment" (4 April, page 48).
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Features
United nations taskforce
These days, Britain's skills shortage is so severe that our contractors are happy to employ workers from all over the world. But what do they think of working with us? We went to Paternoster Square in the City of London to find out.
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Local lowdown
This week, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the job market in the South-east, where a building boom means contractors are looking for skilled recruits
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Comment
Oral promise? It's just talk
This was an appeal to the House of Lords in respect of the applicability of the doctrine of estoppel to guarantees, themselves governed by Section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677. Saint-Gobain had retained the First Defendant (“Inglen”) as the main contractor for the construction of ...
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Row jeopardises introduction of Part P
Christopher Leslie, the minister in charge of the Building Regulations, has expressed concern that a spat between two industry groups may upset the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's plan to introduce a new section of the regulations next year.
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The sound of fiddles
OK, the request may be a bit iffy, not 100% legit, but if I turn a blind eye so as to get the job, surely there's nothing wrong with that? Hey, what's that siren…?
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Milton Keynes experience goes to South Korea
Work is due to start on a £190m indoor ski resort in Busan, South Korea, in summer 2005. The HOK-designed "SnowBox" is due to open in autumn 2006. It will include a winter sports centre, shops and leisure facilities. It is based on a concept first used in Milton ...
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Dunster's surprise
Britain's greenest architect is trying to turn BedZED, his first zero-energy housing scheme, into a financially viable product. So the new, improved model comes in a box – complete with a team to build it for you.
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Comment
Tear down the wall
It was just a throwaway line in Gordon Brown's excruciatingly prolix Budget speech, but its impact on contractors may be immense.
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Ken and Nicky row over dome
A split has emerged between London mayor Ken Livingstone and his deputy, Nicky Gavron, over the proportion of social housing to be included in the Greenwich peninsula development, which includes the Millennium Dome
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For a few dollars less
Stuffed by an adjudicator? Dry-gulched and embittered? Looking for justice? Well, help is at hand because fast-track arbitration has just ridden back into town …
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David Curry
As economic policy, Prescott's communities plan won't wash – it will only exacerbate the North–South divide
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Piano rebuffs 'perverse' critics of his London tower
London Bridge Tower architect Renzo Piano this week said the 306 m high building would not ruin views in London, and denied the scheme was ego-driven.