All Building articles in 2003 issue 18

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  • News

    Workshop

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    This week, innovative items in the goodies bag include groovy steel pipe fittings, a touchscreen lighting control and easy-to-install drainage. Plus, take a peek at the latest must-see websites

  • News

    Traffic stoppers

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    This is Dutch architect Maxwan's vision for motorwayside housing in the year 2030. The practice submitted the design to an ideas competition held by the Netherland's Ministry of Transport, which is looking for ways to develop land along the country's major transport routes. The design is just one of ...

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

  • Comment

    Sail or return

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    You buy a yacht for a cool quarter of a million, sail around in it for six months, decide you don't like it and ask for your money back. Fair dos – or taking the mick?

  • Comment

    You name it, there's a regulation

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    I find myself in the unusual and confusing state of being in agreement with an architect and a solicitor at the same time: Barry Munday and John Redmond (11 April, pages 39 and 53).

  • Features

    Vodka modern

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Drinks giant Diageo has turned office space into outer space in a corporate fit-out so futuristic nobody else has got there yet. Must be all that Smirnoff …

  • Features

    Loads of trouble

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    The developer wanted to take an office block over a road in central London and increase its floorspace by one-third. The catch was that the structure couldn't take any more weight. Here's how the engineer used a set of scales to solve the problem.

  • Features

    Help!

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Need somebody? Jessica Rolph, of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, explains how mentoring can ease the industry's skills shortage and advance your career

  • News

    HBG spells out strategy

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    HBG Chief executive Brian May was bullish about the group's prospects desipite the weakening of the construction market.

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Bosses at Britain's oldest builder shake themselves to bits, a qualified professional goes begging and Canary Wharf clamps down on kleptomania

  • Features

    The guv'nors

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    In three years, Sir Stuart Lipton and Jon Rouse turned CABE from an idea into a key British institution. Now that it's on the brink of another massive expansion, we find out where they're taking it now

  • News

    Try regroups to focus on key market sectors

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try has split its construction division into three business units focusing on key market sectors.

  • News

    M&E firm forced to halt trading

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    M&E design firm Cameronaire Environmental has gone into administration

  • Features

    Industry figures on industry figures

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    13 experts give their views on public building costs

  • Comment

    What you think of the RICS fee increase

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Bye-bye little guy I read with interest that the RICS' forum group had written to its president, Peter Fall, to oppose the ridiculous increase in fees. Fall says in his – very poor – attempt to win support for the rise that the RICS' membership has increased 30% over the ...

  • News

    Survey finds shaky economy is hurting smaller firms

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Small and medium-sized businesses in the British construction sector are losing confidence in the economy, according to a survey covering the second quarter of this year.

  • News

    The flowering of Dubai

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    RMJM architects is designing the village centre for Palm Jebel Ali, one of two man-made islands under construction off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The design concept for the 469,236 m2 village centre uses aspects of Islamic geometry and organic structural form. The centrepiece (pictured) is ...

  • News

    One in three designers 'ignores safety'

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    One in three designers and planning supervisors in Scotland has little understanding of safety regulations, according to a survey conducted by the Health and Safety executive.

  • Comment

    Desperate for a decision

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    The first respondent, HBG, entered into a contract for the building of a leisure complex at Kingask, St Andrews with St Andrews Bay Development Limited. The conditions of the contract were the Standard Scottish Building Contract with Contractor's Design (May 1999 Edition) with amendments. On 9 ...

  • News

    Death of a post-war hero

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Sir Philip Powell, one of the greatest post-war British architects, died this week, aged 82.