All Building articles in 2003 issue 18
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Traffic stoppers
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 ...
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Sail or return
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?
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You name it, there's a regulation
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).
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Vodka modern
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 …
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Loads of trouble
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.
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HBG spells out strategy
HBG Chief executive Brian May was bullish about the group's prospects desipite the weakening of the construction market.
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The guv'nors
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
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Try regroups to focus on key market sectors
Galliford Try has split its construction division into three business units focusing on key market sectors.
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M&E firm forced to halt trading
M&E design firm Cameronaire Environmental has gone into administration
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What you think of the RICS fee increase
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 ...
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Survey finds shaky economy is hurting smaller firms
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.
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The flowering of Dubai
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 ...
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One in three designers 'ignores safety'
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.
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Desperate for a decision
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 ...
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Death of a post-war hero
Sir Philip Powell, one of the greatest post-war British architects, died this week, aged 82.