All Building articles in 2004 issue 15
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FeaturesThere's a visitor for you
That alien spaceship over there is the bird flu virus, and its favourite place to be is in modern hospitals, because they seem to have been specially designed to help it infect its victims. We look at how engineers and microbiologists are fighting back
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NewsSelect sightseers
Foster and Partners' viaduct at Millau in southern France was given the royal once-over this week by the Queen and Prince Philip. The viaduct, which will complete a motorway linking Paris to Barcelona, spans the plateau to the north and south of the Tarn gorge. The 2.5 km multispan cable ...
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NewsPoor reception
Consumer programmes on the box delight in publicly humiliating housebuilders. The housebuilders say this is a sad distortion of the truth, but the Housing Forum's customer surveys disagree. We assess the claims
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Comment
Novation without tears
In the wake of Blyth & Blyth, novation agreements have needed clarification. But will the publication of not one but two standard forms be a help or a hindrance?
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Scottish TUC warns on migrants
The general council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress is to press the British government and the Scottish executive to combat the exploitation of migrant labour in the construction industry
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FeaturesStage magic
Or how Grimshaw transformed precision, clarity and a stumbling quest for answers into nine performance arts spaces in a scientific research centre in upstate New York
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Comment
Living on one's wits
Small practices are the tiny, furry mammals skipping under the scaly feet of industry dinosaurs, with an agility and an imagination that they can't begin to grasp
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Comment
Pressure testing the HBF
The Sustainable Buildings Task Group. It doesn't sound like a revolutionary cabal.
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Standing ground
Despite security panics and mass evacuations over kidnappings and murders of foreign nationals, UK firms working in Iraq are going nowhere. The construction contracts may be juicy, but is this too big a risk to take?
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Homes key to Reading Gateway
A joint venture between developer St James and landowner Thames Water is to deliver the residential component of the proposed Reading Gateway development
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Comment
Food for thought
We invite you to chew over the main issues arising from the proposed review of the Construction Act, while he helps himself to a large slice of humble pie …
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News
Ferguson makes a modest proposal
RIBA president George Ferguson has laid into bad architecture, saying he would like to create a demolition "X-List" of badly designed buildings.
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CommentInnocence and experience
If an adjudicator sees something they shouldn't, is there any way that they can escape a charge of bias? Here's how one adjudicator tackled the problem
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Dutch firm to plan Thames Gateway site
Dutch architect Maxwan is set to work on a 229 ha Thames Gateway site at Belvedere, its second scheme in the London growth area.
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NewsDramatic entrance
Work has just begun on Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' design for a three-year scheme to improve entrances and foyers at the Barbican Arts Centre in London. The £12.5m project will create two easily visible entrances from Silk Street and Lakeside and improve internal navigation. The project team includes contractor Wallis ...
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Fall in death toll offers 'no reassurance'
The number of deaths from site accident has fallen in the past year from 76 to 72, according to the latest Health and Safety Executive figures.
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FeaturesMake my day
Duncan Innes, the director of English Partnerships, is seen as John Prescott's enforcer for the all-important task of building houses in the South-east. But it would be difficult to imagine a more mild-mannered Dirty Harry, as we found out.