All Building articles in 2003 issue 23
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The simple seven
Tinkering with construction's outdated payment practices is not good enough. So here are a few straightforward steps to radically improve the situation
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Space is money
A project can be analysed in terms of the fundamental units of space, time and money. And every project has a solution that uses the first to minimise the second and maximise the third. Here's how to find it
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Movers and makers
The Environment Agency has teamed up with research company HR Wallingford to develop a British Standards Institution-approved Kitemark scheme for flood protection products. The Environment Agency said it believed this was the first quality standard in the world for flood protection. The first products to win Kitemark approval are Floodguard ...
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Local lowdown
Site managers and QSs can demand fat salaries in Kent and Surrey, where affordable housing is driving the market
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NewsRetail hits the riverside
Sainsburys this week appointed Stanhope as development partner for the redevelopment of its former head office in the South Bank. The Foster and Partners-designed scheme comprises a 20-storey building on the corner of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street. It will offer 375,000 m2 of office space and a Sainsburys supermarket ...
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Handover heart
You work at it, you complete it, you celebrate it and you go home feeling warm and fuzzy. And the next morning your client moves into an office that's too hot and too cold. Architect Mark Way has a way to stop this happening. We find out how
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Gordon plays house
Gordon Brown found himself in the opposite position this week of Captain Yossarian, Joseph Heller's cursed hero of Catch-22
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NewsRyder merges with HKS to form superarchitect
Merged group will be one of 10 largest practices in the world, with expected turnover of £130m
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NewsFlights on a float
Architects HOK International has won a contest to design Kitakyushu Airport in Japan. The airport is on an artificial island in the Sea of Suou, Kitakyushu City. The main roof element is inspired by the lantern floats used at the local Tobata Gion festival. The firm beat off competition from ...
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KPIs set to measure firms' eco-friendliness
The DTI-sponsored Egan body, Construction Best Practice, has unveiled the first set of key performance indicators for the environment
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Eleven on school design list
Architects Will Alsop and Wilkinson Eyre head the 11-strong list to produce exemplar designs for the government's £60bn Building Schools for the Future programme
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NewsCryptic suggestions
Plans were submitted this week to Westminster council for a £34m restoration and extension to the St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, central London. Designed by Eric Parry Architects, the scheme will open up the church's 18th-century crypt and create an entrance pavilion and foyer. Originally designed by James Gibbs ...
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Cost model: Supermarkets
Supermarkets are among the UK’s top 10 construction clients. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the costs, specification and procurement of new build and existing stores
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The small matter of consent
The respondent, Christian Braun, had successfully overturned, on appeal to the administrative court, a decision by a planning inspector to dismiss his appeals against a listed building enforcement notice in respect of alterations to the interior of his house. He had also overturned the dismissal of his appeal against the ...
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Comme il faut
Beginning work on a construction project in France? Liability for defects is onerous so make sure you avoid a beating by getting properly insured
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Why I can't shut up
The government is embarking on a monumental folly by backing London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best we can hope is that the bid fails
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Two more die in falls as HSE starts campaign
Two construction workers, one of whom worked on the £23m Bath Spa scheme in Somerset, have died this week after falls on site
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Housebuilders in buyout spree
Persimmon, Alfred McAlpine and Carillion have all made acquisitions in the past week