All Building articles in 2004 issue 13
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Comment
Why the Tories will win
The government's refusal to treat the construction industry as the special case it is has made it very difficult for Labour to triumph in next year's election
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FeaturesToxic shock
A teeny little EU landfill directive that the government has overlooked now threatens to blow up in its face – and even destroy its vision of brownfield regeneration.
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CommentPasta and paranoia
Rubber chicken takes in a trade fair in Bologna and discovers that the bella paese's historic love of all things beautiful extends to stoats' skulls, fossilised trees and, er, padlocks
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Comment
Measure for measure
Insurers are providing shrinking cover on terrorism and asbestos risks. Now consultants have new standard contract terms that shrink their liabilities to match
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NewsThe rise of Liverpool
A copper-clad concave tower block designed by London architect RTKL is planned for Liverpool. It forms the centrepiece of an application for a £100m scheme from developers Ballymore Properties and Merepark. If successful, the tower, which will contain 400 flats, will be built on a vacant site behind Central Station. ...
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Comment
Knocking an opportunity
I hope that Wendy Coggan's remarks (Letters, 19 March) spur other RICS members to reply to our surveys.
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NewsMorrell issues RICS ultimatum
Davis langdon partner Paul Morrell this week slammed the RICS for its "lack of respect for construction" and called for reform
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O'Rourke issues warning to industry's swordsmen
Laing O'Rourke chief executive Ray O'Rourke has warned that companies that work with a confrontational style will fail.
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Features
Housebuilders set to join the superleague
The housebuilding industry may start winning hearts and minds in the City if the largest players can break into the FTSE 100 – and one or two are almost there
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Comment
Safe as a prefab house
In reply to your piece on the Peabody Trust and prefabrication, we have to move away from the chaos of a construction site towards the relative order of a factory.
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Safety fears trigger stadium redesigns
Many big all-seater football stadiums may have to be redesigned at a cost of millions because supporters insist on standing during matches.
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FeaturesFast track
Why the Bahrain F1 project team could teach Michael Schumacher a thing or two about acceleration
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FeaturesEconomies of space
We look at how MacCormac Jamieson Prichard took a tiny patch of land squished between buildings at the London School of Economics and turned it into an Italian-style piazza that is now the heart of the campus.
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News
Laying down ground rules
New European regulations about toxic disposal and landfill mean that crucial plans to regenerate brownfield sites could go up in smoke. Now that’s hazardous waste …
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NewsUshida goes to Doha
Architect Ushida Findlay and design consultant MIMAR Consult are drawing up detailed designs of a 6500 m2 Museum of Traditional Costumes and Textiles in the capital city of Qatar, Doha. It will be built at the ancient al-Koot Fort, conserving the building's fabric but inserting a new core. Most of ...
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Comment
In defence of Peabody
Your article "Dream Over" (12 March, page 18), was sensational reportage to say the least.
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Features
My take … on the cost consultant's new name
My take on the rebranding of my company as Davis Langdon, with Everest falling away, is that it is a significant decision in advancing and strengthening the firm's image at home and abroad.