All Building articles in 2004 issue 06
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NewsSuite Thames …
The £100m regeneration scheme at King's Quay, overlooking the Royal Albert Basin in London's Thames Gateway, is about to go on site. Architect Jestico + Whiles, working with developer Furlong City, has established an urban quarter around the 1882 grade II*-listed Gallions Hotel. More than 440 homes and a hotel ...
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Setback for schools scheme
The government's £5.1bn programme to refurbish every secondary school in the country has been hit by the resignation of the man leading it.
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FeaturesA roman triumph
The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music …
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Serves us right
The maddeningly dysfunctional nature of Britain's planning system can be largely explained by the general rule that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
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Missing the point
Judges would prefer disputes to end up in mediation rather than court – but frogmarching both parties to the table will only undermine the process
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CommentStakes and ladders
If you skip a square at the very beginning of an adjudication you may find that at the end of it – when there's most to lose – you have to start all over again
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Features
Just the job
How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers
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Shortlist of three for top job at Mowlem
Headhunters have drawn up a list of potential successors to Sir John Gains as chief executive of Mowlem
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Immigration requires regulation
The Morecambe Bay tragedy has swung the spotlight back onto illegal immigrants in construction.
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FeaturesSimon Hughes
The Lib Dem mayoral candidate has plenty to say about key worker housing, the Olympics, his yellow cab and Steven Norris – as long as you can keep up with him. We jogged alongside
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Mayor unveils plan for greater London
City to be reorganised to create homes and jobs for 800,000 more people
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NewsGood Reading
Architect Jestico + Whiles has won planning consent for this £7m mixed-use building on the landmark Queens Road island site close to the centre of Reading. It provides 77 homes in three blocks rising from five storeys to eight. Other project team members include Montagu Evans as planning consultant, Watts ...
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FeaturesNow even tougher
The new Part L is to come into force three years before we thought it was! Oh my God!! What are we going to do??? Well, why not pour yourself a drink, sit back in a large leather armchair and peruse the first part of Building's E-Z-Read® guide to what's ...
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FeaturesAn unconventional day
At Building’s first ever Construction Client Convention last Tuesday, Nigel Griffiths pledged his support, major clients learned the importance of their role, industry firms networked for new contracts and our editor did what he does best …
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Confederation urges majors to stay
The Construction Confederation has broken its silence over rumours that several large contractors may break away to form a rival lobby body
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'Not likely to be a common occurrence'
Anyone thinking of trotting off to the TCC to resolve their dispute ought to read this amazing Appeal Court judgment before they do …
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Colchester PFI deal closes – at last
The £2bn Colchester Garrison PFI scheme reached financial close this week, more than four years after a preferred bidder was appointed.