All Building articles in 2003 issue 19
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NewsOn the road
Client Billhold Enterprise has received planning permission for this angular office block by the M4 in Brentford, west London. The 6000 m2 scheme was designed by London architect Esa, and will sit opposite another scheme by the practice, the Parkview building. The project team includes structural engineer PBA and services ...
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Poking the paymaster
Without fear or favour, blind to all blandishments and valient for truth, an adjudicator must severely upset a party they're relying on for their daily bread. Hmmmm
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Miliband's terms
Education minister David Miliband describes his mission to bring every secondary school in Britain up to scratch as "provocative" and "challenging". So it will be – and not just for educationalists and local authorities, but for their suppliers in construction, too. On the face of it, Miliband's timing couldn't be ...
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Features
Local lowdown
Huge regeneration projects are turning Wales into a recruitment hotspot for professionals of all levels
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No industry is an island
Most construction laws are made in Europe, not Britain. FIEC vice-president Peter Andrews tells Building how we need to learn effective lobbying from our EU neighbours
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I'm talking serious money
Slow payment is a bad habit that the industy has got used to. It's just possible, you know, that by speeding it up we could solve quite a few other bugbears
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Hope for the no-hopers
The appellant, Chan U Seek, had brought a claim for payment of commission in respect of two contracts entered into by the defendant in 1995 and 1996 with the Indonesian Ministry of Defence. The deputy master had struck out and dismissed the claim under CPR 3.4(2) ...
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This is a hold-up
Making a claim for losses caused by disruption can be tricky if you can't prove how much the disruption cost you. So how do you go about doing that?
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Features
The graduate wasteland
It is received wisdom that construction is struggling to attract graduates. So why are so many graduates struggling to find jobs? The answer, is that colleges and the industry are failing them
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Words from the front
Roofers have been faced with a grotesque rise in their insurance premiums over the past two years. Here's how they've been fighting back
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News
Stratford tenants experiment with trial by television
Residents of east London housing estate to debate and vote on masterplan using interactive TV and internet
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Features
The top down revolution
Anyone who thinks of roofing subbies as simple, horny-handed sons of toil had better think again. The modern firm is a slick, high-tech, high IQ outfit
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Laing O'Rourke double whammy
Contractor Laing O'Rourke is favourite to clinch two jobs in London and Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, worth a total of £83m
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EP doubles directors to expedite housing delivery
English Partnerships is to beef up its senior management as part of a restructuring led by chief executive David Higgins
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Eleven days lost
Here's a strange case where a fight over the meaning of a small part of the Construction Act decided which party took a big hit. This is what happened
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Dawn drugs raid on Skanska's MoD HQ site
Military police have carried out a dawn raid on Skanska's landmark Ministry of Defence headquarters refurbishment project in Whitehall
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FeaturesDavid Miliband
The schools standards minister comes across as a sixth-form debating champion – but can he convince regional contractors to play a leading role in his plan to revamp the UK's secondary schools?