All Building articles in 2003 issue 29
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Features
At the top of the slope
This month, Experian Business Strategies reports that May was a bumper period for construction activity. However, labour shortages are proving irksome, and growth is set to wind down over the next quarter …
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FeaturesScourge of the skyline
Pirate broadcasters are thugs with links to drug gangs who hijack the airwaves with illegal antennas on high-rise roofs. We report on the violent struggle between them and the contractors hired to take them off the air
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CommentNo sex please
In their enthusiasm to make their case, disputants are likely to ‘sex up’ evidence. But good adjudicators, and good prime ministers, ought to be immune to spin
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NewsNorman's new place
Foster and Partners has designed its first residential development for the Liverpool housing developer, Urban Splash. The scheme, for 292 apartments in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is also Urban Splash's first scheme outside a city centre. Foster's design has a pair of linked seven-storey blocks that project out over the Bridgewater ...
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Comment
A missed opportunity
The appellant, Warborough, challenged an award in a rent review arbitration on the grounds that there had been serious irregularity for the purposes of section 68 Arbitration Act 1996. The arbitrator had made an award based on comparable nearby premises put forward by Warborough's surveyor, but made an adjustment favourable ...
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Comment
Making plans for Nigel
Small, efficient firms are being squeezed out by a government that is hand-in-glove with big construction. So, here are some suggestions for our new minister
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Comment
Logic of the madhouse
The government is trying to improve housing supply by making housebuilders' job so onerous that they would rather build their homes in China than Chingford
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NewsLord Liverpool
Work has begun on the £2.2m extension to the University of Liverpool sports centre, designed by architect Austin-Smith:Lord. The extension includes a 360 m2 fitness suite and a four-court sports hall with a main entrance and reception area. The extension will be enclosed by a catenary roof structure. The project ...
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NewsYou've not seen owt like it
Alsop Architects vision of the deprived Yorkshire town of Barnsley rebranded as a surreal Tuscan hill village has taken shape with the release of these possible designs.
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Comment
A question of justification
Are Britain's bosses overpaid? This question has been dominating the City pages over the past few months, particularly after the £22m severance deal struck by Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
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FeaturesKeith Hill
Only a month into the job and the housing minister has absorbed the government's line about having a 'vision' for urban regeneration. But when it comes to expounding the finer policy points, he seems less sure of himself.
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NewsHail Mary
A £1.3m refurbishment of the grade II*-listed St Mary's church in Ealing, west London, was completed last month. The aim was to recreate the church's appearance after it was remodelled by Victorian architect SS Teulon. He gave it Moorish arches in striped brickwork, a cast-iron column decorated with ...
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NewsSearch on for executives to oversee Thames Gateway
Chairs for two key urban development corporations to receive £45,000 each for two-day week.
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An executive shake-up
A revised code on boardroom practices has targeted over-paid and under-achieving executives. But will the recommendations actually mean that the highest earners take a pay-cut?
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Scots slam EMBT over fees
Members of the Scottish parliament have criticised Barcelona architect EMBT for failing to respond to its proposed cap on the fees of consultants for the building.
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Prefabricated embassy goes up in Iraq
British embassy staff in Iraq are to be given a new home made from flat-pack lightweight materials. Work began three weeks ago and is due to be completed in September.
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NewsDirectors under fire as pay doubles in eight years
Highest earners on the defensive as Building survey reveals widening gap between top brass and workers.