All Building articles in 2004 issue 05

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  • News

    My take

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilding analyst with JM Finn

  • News

    In my opinion

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The decision by the RICS governing counsel to reject a properly submitted requisition from 901 members for an extraordinary general meeting moving a motion of no confidence in five senior executives was in many ways as ill-considered as it was predictable.

  • News

    We love you

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Building Design Partnership has become the darling of the Dutch public with its Armada residential development s'Hertogenbosch. It was voted by the Dutch public as the most loved building erected in the Netherlands in the past three years. The £30m scheme fits 255 apartments into five pairs of buildings overlooking ...

  • News

    Six vie for Milton Keynes millennium village

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Six top housebuilders have been shortlisted to build the 1850 homes that will make up the Millennium Community project at Oak Grove, Milton Keynes.

  • News

    RMJM tipped for Olympic job

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Architect RMJM has emerged as the frontrunner for the £400m International Convention Centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

  • Comment

    How late is too late?

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Missing a deadline in a contract can have dire consequences, but you may not be surprised to learn that in construction some deadlines are stricter than others

  • Features

    You do the honours

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners

  • Features

    Here’s the pitch

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Sport England’s standardised design is starting a Mexican wave of achievable, accessible halls that don’t look like tin boxes. We report from the touchline at Dagenham.

  • Features

    Our homes in Havana

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    A UK architect is bringing prefab housing to Cuba in the hope that it will eliminate poor quality homes, delays and light-fingered builders. With government backing, residents of old Havana could soon be moving to new homes, leaving their grand colonial buildings for the tourists.

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    This week, the usual bile-black tide of backstabbing, greed, ruthless ambition, denial, hatred and negativity – and that's just the one with Nigel Griffiths

  • News

    Going places

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    This quarter we look at how regeneration cash has sparked crossover careers between the private and public sectors

  • News

    Need more workers? Give us more work

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The construction Confederation has called on the government to maintain its present level of capital spending on construction despite the sector's labour shortages.

  • Features

    Regeneration game

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …

  • Comment

    Forcing the issue

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    There had been a long running dispute between the long lease holders of County Hall and the owner/operator of the art gallery housed in part of the first floor of the building known as the Versace Gallery. The first defendant, Danovo Ltd enjoyed a 20 year sub-lease from the sixth ...

  • Comment

    Riddles and fiddles

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    You may not be able to find a T5 worker who made £55,000, or explain where Dennis Lenard's 300,000 workers are hiding, but you can get a dodgy CSCS card tomorrow

  • News

    By fair means or foul

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The latest Housing Forum survey show that some of the UK’s most profitable housebuilders offer the least satisfaction to their customers. But do these Manchester Utds of the industry even care – and what can be done to get them to raise their game?

  • Features

    Face LIFT

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    You'll be aware that the government has a programme to improve local healthcare buildings. But did you know that smart developers and councils are using it to catalyse the wholesale regeneration of rundown areas?

  • Comment

    Performance driven

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    They're nice little runners – quick, reliable, easy to handle … But the only way to be sure adjudicators are roadworthy is to put them through their MOT

  • News

    Designer diplomacy

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas' practice, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has opened its Dutch Embassy in Berlin. Located on the Rolandufer in the former east Berlin, the structure is an expression of Dutch "openness": one continuous promenade meanders through the eight-level building, a single space excavated out of a cube of generic ...

  • Features

    Jarvis digs deep

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    When your clients and your suppliers join with the media, the HSE and City analysts to attack you, you need to come up with a pretty good survival plan. We report on Jarvis' struggle to regroup