All Building articles in 2004 issue 05
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In my opinion
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.
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We love you
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 ...
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Six vie for Milton Keynes millennium village
Six top housebuilders have been shortlisted to build the 1850 homes that will make up the Millennium Community project at Oak Grove, Milton Keynes.
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RMJM tipped for Olympic job
Architect RMJM has emerged as the frontrunner for the £400m International Convention Centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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Comment
How late is too late?
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
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Features
You do the honours
In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners
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Here’s the pitch
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.
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Our homes in Havana
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.
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Going places
This quarter we look at how regeneration cash has sparked crossover careers between the private and public sectors
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Need more workers? Give us more work
The construction Confederation has called on the government to maintain its present level of capital spending on construction despite the sector's labour shortages.
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …
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Comment
Forcing the issue
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 ...
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Riddles and fiddles
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
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By fair means or foul
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?
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Performance driven
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
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Designer diplomacy
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 ...
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Jarvis digs deep
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