All Building articles in 2003 issue 41
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What a site!
While peering out of my office window in Leamington Spa, I happened to notice upon a professional decorating team hard at work.
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Valuable secrets
I read with interest Ann Minogue's article "Secret squirrels" (19 September, page 57) in which the disclosure of a database of customers was included in confidential trade information.
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NewsWater rebirth
Alsop Architects this week unveiled a masterplan to redevelop Bradford's city centre. Under the plan, prepared for urban regeneration company Bradford Centre Regeneration, the city is to get its own waterfront, with a park to be created around a lake in front of City Hall. The Alsop plan to ...
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FeaturesProject review
Designing and building a £5.5m nanoscience research centre for Cambridge University was an ideal opportunity to create a building that was as futuristic as the technology it contained. Here's how Building Design Partnership and Gardiner & Theobald tackled it.
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CommentThe peacemakers
Dispute resolution boards are supposed to head off problems before they escalate into armed conflict. Question is, how do they do the heading off?
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Now we are three
The pre-action protocol is three years old. So do we crack open the bubbly – or keep quiet and hope nobody will mention it? A new survey might help us decide
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NewsNelson the victorious
Malcolm Nelson of Laing O'Rourke has been named Construction Manager of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Building.
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Shiny and new – but not for long
I have just read your article on the Birmingham Bullring (29 August, page 30).
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FeaturesLateral perspective
Terry Farrell has launched two London housing schemes: one a 16-storey block of flats, the other a handful of £4m homes. He thinks one could be the answer to the South-east's housing shortage. So which would you put your money on? (PS: That is a trick question …)
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QS institute is launched
The Quantity Surveyors Institute, a professional body set up to compete with the RICS, is poised to sign up 1000 members and will grow to 6000 in five years, claimed founder Roger Knowles this week.
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Toolkits for housing PFIs
The government is to provide a toolkit to help local authorities implement its troubled PFI housing schemes.
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NewsHigh hopes
The Wilkinson Eyre-designed 'Bridge of Aspiration' that connects the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, central London, was one of the shortlisted entries in the innovation category at the Wood Awards on Wednesday night.
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NewsGoing for a spin
Architect Ron Arad Associates has unveiled this showroom for car manufacturer Maserati in the Italian city of Modena.
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Give it to me straight
It’s all very well designing a building whose curves have been inspired by a hippopotamus’ backside, but just how does it fit in to our rectilinear urban jungle?
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NFB launches service to find perfect partners
A scheme to provide clients and prime contractors with a list of suitable firms for partnering has been launched by the National Federation of Builders.
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Jarvis says farewell to rail maintenance sector
Support services group Jarvis last week announced that it was to pull out of rail maintenance work.