All Building articles in 2003 issue 21
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NewsRing of sapphire
A model of architect Will Alsop's vision for Barnsley, in Yorkshire, will be on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, which opens on Monday, 2 June. Measuring 3 × 4 m, the model is designed to provoke discussion about development policy over the next 30 years. The display is ...
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Protecting your own
With esculating insurance premiums crippling small contractors, four trade bodies have stepped in to offer cheaper alternatives.
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NewsMersey treat
Architect Glas has won planning permission for its first job in Liverpool. The Peterhouse project, on Tithebarn Street, is part of the council's drive to regenerate the city centre through the provision of affordable and private residential units. The scheme involves the conversion of a post-war office block into apartments, ...
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Features
Movers and makers
Building products multinational Knauf has announced it intends to spend £20m on new drywall manufacturing facilities in the UK. The company said it was optimistic about the UK market, which is one of the largest drywall markets in Europe, and it anticipated increasing demand for plasterboard products as the industry ...
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FeaturesThe leveller
Julie Mellor, chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, has construction's lousy record of recruiting women in her sights. But she's not out to give the industry a bashing: she has more subtle ways of making it see sense
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Learning the lingo
You hear those corporate catchphrases every day. You may even use them. But do you really know what they mean? Make sure with our jargon-busting guide to talking the talk
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FeaturesWe've got your results
The Cumberland Infirmary was the prototype PFI hospital, and therefore a test-bed for how well the private and public sectors work together. Building visited it three years after it opened and makes a disturbing diagnosis
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A friendly suit
The claimant, Roy Hammond, sought damages of £973,264 arising out of the repudiation of a contract to provide central heating and plumbing services to the 130 cottages and other properties on the Glynde Estate in East Sussex, of which the first three defendants were trustees and the fourth defendant was ...
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NewsWhitehall set to hire private firms to run school PFIs
Government plans to increase competition by breaking 25-year contracts into five-year subcontracts
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Steve Feery
Why break into the PFI market? It's too expensive and too risky – just stick to what you know
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FeaturesHard and fast
The project team had to build a village for 1000 students in 91 weeks on a budget that was tighter than a hippopotamus' leotard. The only chance was a risky, little-known construction method. Building found out what happened next
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Enough to make you sick?
The story of the £87m Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle should be triggering sirens and blue flashing lights at the Department of Health, Number 10 and the Treasury
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Easy steps to hair loss
Got a bit too much of a mop up top? Want to look mature and distinguished? Now you too can look like me – just become a responding party in an adjudication!
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FeaturesRichard Rogers' Japanese school: Dream school
An elegant open-plan school beneath a sawtooth roof has been built in a Japanese village to designs by Richard Rogers Partnership
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NewsDining in splendour
Norwich Cathedral has a new refectory designed by Hopkins Architects (formerly Michael Hopkins & Partners) built on the site of the medieval original. The building was topped out last week by local contractor RG Carter. The roof, which is covered in cast lead, is supported on oak columns, each with ...
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Nil desperandum
As you know, it's a fat lot of use being right if you can't prove that you are. But are you completely sunk if you didn't keep 'contemporary records'?
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Death by Venice
The A-list of tourist destinations thrive on their history, uniqueness, beauty and immutability. Which is precisely what makes them so deadly