All Building articles in 2004 issue 11
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Features
What's in it for me?
On-site training is ideal for small firms, says Gordon Harris, boss of Advanced Roofing in Derbyshire
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NewsSexy Salford
Developer Peel Holdings has received planning consent for a five-storey office building and two residential blocks of nine and 20 storeys next to Erie Basin in Salford Quays, Manchester. Designed by Broadway Malyan, the scheme is to include 6000 m2 of office space and 194 apartments with an equal number ...
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NewsTower records
Here's the latest image of the design for the sloping 40-storey tower for the Central Bank of Kuwait, designed by the London office of American architect HOK. In its competition-winning design for the headquarters, HOK adopted a pyramidal form that echoes traditional local architecture. Apart from the multidisciplinary ...
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NewsAnd now … Watchdog
The National Audit Office is to investigate the BBC's White City office project next to BBC television centre in west London, which is being completed by Bovis Lend Lease. The watchdog will look at how the BBC is spending the £2.6bn of licence fee income on external suppliers.The NAO ...
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CommentA new kind of small talk
Rubber chicken returns with a trip to the property world's raison d'être: MIPIM in Cannes. Here our trusty reporter faced a grilling from Griffiths, a band of blues-playing QSs and …
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FeaturesTake school to the kids
Traditionally, training workers to NVQ level has meant adapting to an inflexible college timetable only to have them learning very generalised subjects. But now firms are training staff on site — and it's proving much more efficient
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Features
Just the job
Training manager Jayne Sloan is responsible for getting construction workers through the NVQ programme. She explains why it is rewarding work
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News
Jarvis seeks Tube Lines sale
Jarvis revealed last week that it may sell half of its stake in Tube Lines, the firm responsible for upgrading one-third of the London Underground, to reduce debt.
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Comment
Under instruction
Hallamshire had entered into a building contract with the local authority, South Holland District Council. It incorporated the JCT Form of Building Contract 1980 Edition Local Authority's version. They agreed that phase two of the project, in respect of fit-out works, would be dealt with by means of a variation ...
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Waterman predicts growth
Multidisciplinary consultant Waterman has predicted an upsurge in commercial work.
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FeaturesOn the ground
The construction of new homes and infrastructure projects is essential if normality is to return to southern Iraq. Building went on patrol with the Royal Artillery to visit to some key construction projects under way around Basra
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NewsRound and round and round we go
… and where we stop, nobody knows. With the skills crisis most acute in housebuilding, it seems everybody is poaching staff off everybody else and all getting nowhere. We find out what can be done – and scrutinises five firms’ policies.
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CommentGet Shorty
Disciplinary boards often resemble something between a kangaroo court and a lynch mob – as a former cabinet minister may be about to discover
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A game of give and take
Kate Barker’s one-stage planning proposal gets the thumbs-up from housebuilders – but other recommendations get a less warm reception
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FeaturesUnited front
Many companies are attracting new workers into the industry by offering training on site. We look at the initiative on one project by social housing contractor United House
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NewsFoster's Washington patent
Foster and Partners was this week revealed as the architect of a glass enclosure for the Patent Office in Washington DC. The Greek revival building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
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NewsFoster loses third man to Make
A key Foster and Partners architect has defected to Make, the practice set up at the end of last year by Ken Shuttleworth, Lord Foster's former right-hand man
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NewsRevealed: The real dangers staff face in southern Iraq
Contractors use armoured cars to ferry workers around amid bomb attacks, lorry hijackings and death threats