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  • News

    Workshop

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    This month, the 50th Interbuild construction products exhibition is taking place in Birmingham. Here's a sneaky peek at a few of the 200 products that are about to wow the multitudes

  • News

    Tower on the Taff

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Cardiff council has approved plans for a 26-storey "Glass Needle", designed by Charter Consultant for Urban Solutions. The glass-clad tower and surrounding stepped blocks of accommodation, are set around an elevated garden. They will provide 188 apartments, 2200 m2 of retail space and an underground car park. The project team ...

  • Features

    A television quiz

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    How do you stop an enormous falling-over building located in the middle of an earthquake zone from falling over? We find out how Arup is going about it at the headquarters of Central Chinese State Television

  • Features

    The people's palace

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron's 110,000-seater centrepiece for the 2008 Olympics has taken the austere, technocratic tradition of stadium design and dropped it in the bin. Instead, it has conceived something that is beautiful, allusive and civic minded – as we found out

  • Comment

    An open question

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The full implications of the Disability Discrimination Act will shortly compel developers to sort out any access issues they may have – or risk paying a hefty price

  • Comment

    Legal twister

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    This is a game in which players pretend to be appeal court judges and then try to get themselves into ludicrous positions. Here's how it's done

  • News

    Out of its Shell

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Arup has received planning permission for its proposed redevelopment of the Shell Centre near Waterloo station in south London. The scheme has been the subject of a year-long public inquiry. The client is a joint venture between Shell International and Lend Lease. The project team includes Lend Lease Projects as ...

  • News

    Interbuild

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    WorkshopJean EmblinBill Dunster

  • News

    NHS plans to slash size of Paddington PFI hospital

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Government pressure to reduce costs of £827m Paddington Health Campus may lead to scaled down scheme

  • Features

    Spring hopes

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports a February slowdown but expects growth in the UK construction industry to gather speed in the three months to June

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    This week, the bet between Dennis Lenard and John Smith is on, Aukett's new boss learns the facts of British life and some advice on how to have a ball

  • Comment

    Green light for government

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The defendant approved a development of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. The development was to be on land owned by the Home Office, but would be operated by its chosen contractor, who would be granted a lease of the land before the development commenced. There had been local opposition ...

  • News

    ODPM wonders how to pay for Thames Gateway

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Fears over the funding of key regeneration programmes are to be addressed by a working group that met for the first time this week.

  • News

    Mouchel Parkman pins growth hopes on rail and gas

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Merged support services group set to bid for three gas contracts and London Underground signalling work

  • Features

    Orient express

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    It takes skill and effort to get started, but once you do you're on a fast-track to success. We talk to recruiter Ed Twaite about the Chinese job market

  • News

    Everyone's a winner

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    These are the victors of the 2004 Building Awards, held on Tuesday at Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Balfour Beatty boss Mike Welton was the inaugural winner of the chief executive of the year award, outgoing CABE boss Jon Rouse picked up the personality of the year prize ...

  • News

    Element of light

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    A £60m chemistry research facility designed by RMJM has just been finished at the University of Oxford. The 15,750 m2 building contains 48 laboratories and 384 fume cupboards. Its 500 researchers will be able to write up their reports in natural light as the labs are arranged around the ...

  • Comment

    Kate's impossible dream

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Kate Barker damned the construction industry in her report to the government. But she doesn't understand the facts whereof she speaks. So here they are

  • News

    New school to teach planners to deliver more homes

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Egan skills review recommends training centre to teach officials to work in partnership with private sector

  • Features

    Long day's journey …

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Paul Andreu's National Theatre project in Beijing has at times been a tortuous drama beset by delays and controversy. As the curtain rises for the final act, we go behind the scenes and talks to one of the main players