All Building articles in 2003 issue 39
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Features
They're watching
More and more firms are monitoring workers' emails, calls and internet hits. Tara Cosgrove of Beale and Company outlines what your boss is entitled to know
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Comment
Up the spout
I wonder if the person who thought up the Reginox tap (12 September, page 60) has ever washed up or filled a kettle.
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Comment
Pressing on with the PFI
The tiresome ideological struggle over the PFI resurfaced at the Labour conference (see news).
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NewsSimon Murray switches sides
Simon Murray, the former major projects director at Railtrack, is to take over as chairman at regional contractor Geoffrey Osborne
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CommentLegal substances
Were you too busy to plough through the summer's output of construction law books? Fear not, dear reader, your legal beagle has sniffed through them for you
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Comment
Praise indeed
It's against the journalistic grain to give praise I know, but I would just like to say how much I enjoy your magazine.
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FeaturesHow's that possible?
Welcome to Tenerife concert hall – the first ever performing arts building by Santiago Calatrava Esquire, architect, engineer and structural magician …
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News
UCATT and NHS trust lock horns over Stoke hospital
Construction union UCATT is to hold talks with an NHS trust over complaints that construction workers will suffer poor conditions on a £270m hospital PFI scheme in Stoke-on-Trent.
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NewsQueen of Herts
The University of Hertfordshire has completed its de Havilland campus in Hatfield. The £120m development is one of largest for a university in half a century. It comprises four academic buildings serving 4000 students, 1600 student residences and a sports complex. A learning resources centre (pictured), is linked to ...
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FeaturesThe hanging offices of rotterdam
Where do you build if you don't want to use up your valuable land? In mid-air, of course … We found out how it was done at the latest wonder of the construction world – the gravity-defying De Brug office block in Holland
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News
Government misses spend targets
The Government has failed to hit five main targets in its spending programme, according to a Construction Products Associations report
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Gavron urges high-rise restraint
Labour's London mayoral candidate Nicky Gavron will adopt a more cautious approach to high-rise development than Ken Livingstone if elected, she said this week.
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Comment
Lay the global gangway
I read your article "Good morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41) and thought it was very interesting, so far as it went.
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Comment
Give the man some flowers
As a building surveyor, it is not very often that I find myself nodding in agreement with a clerk of works – but I nearly sent John Smith flowers after reading "Cut to the bone" (12 September, page 29). It hit the proverbial nail on the head.
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News
High-Point Rendel finally sold to management
The troubled consultant High-Point Rendel has finally completed a management buyout, nearly a year after it began talks to leave the stock exchange.
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Four fight it out for Tower Hamlets town hall
Four consortiums are vying to build a headquarters for Tower Hamlets council in Bethnal Green, east London.
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Comment
Not so fast
If you’re tempted not to pay an adjudicator’s award, then why not simply put it off for 15 months or more by fighting a bloody and dogged rearguard action?