All Building articles in 2004 issue 23
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News
Wates posts record profit
Wates has announced a record pre-tax profit of £13.3m for 2003, up 37% on the previous year.
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Comment
A remembrance of things past
I very much doubt that I will be the first correct answer, but the building in your "In the detail" competition is Trellick Tower in Golborne Road London W10 – not to be confused with trendy Notting Hill – designed by Erno Goldfinger and constructed by Holland Hannon and Cubitts.It ...
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Comment
Manufacturing opportunities
I am a second-year building surveying student, and an unusual one, in that I am aged 35, and from a manufacturing background.
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FeaturesPractice made perfect
It's easy to mistake David Morley Architects' clear-glazed NHS walk-in centre for a shop front. And that's the intention. We walked in to check it out, and he didn't even need an appointment …
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Features
Local lowdown: London
Celebrities are searching for quick-thinking, tight-lipped site managers, but they aren't the only clients hiring in London. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports
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FeaturesLife on the line
Rats. Diseases. Pitch dark. 130° heat. Airless, confined spaces. No water. Entombed under 30 m of concrete. Endless tunnels. All night, every night. This is not a recurring nightmare, it's a job. We took a journey to the end of the night with the track replacement boys.
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Comment
NHBC, know thyself
NHBC chief executive Imtiaz Farookhi in his letter of 21 May (page 40) takes issue with Building for describing the NHBC as a lobbying organisation for housebuilders.
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News
Warning over illegal workers
Construction minister Nigel Griffiths has acknowledged the need for a crackdown on illegal gangmasters in construction.
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CommentReach and grasp
Don't believe the hype – the buildings of the future that designers imagined in the 1960s are as far beyond our ability to build now as they were then
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NewsShake-up at Interior Services gives King more power
Revamp after sale of FM arm pushes David King into chief executive role; Roy Dantzic becomes chairman
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Quintain gets go-ahead for Rogers' Wembley scheme
Millennium Dome developer Quintain Estates has been granted planning permission to develop a site around the Wembley National Stadium in north-west London.
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CommentWe need some fog lights
Two years after Judge Seymour said you couldn't introduce new material once an adjudication had started, we're not much wiser about whether he was right
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NewsFlying walk-over
Architect Wilkinson Eyre and Arup have designed the 197 m long bridge at Gatwick Airport for client BAA to link the North Terminal with the Pier 6 satellite building. It is the larger of the two passenger bridges in the world that span a taxiway. The bridge will be high ...
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NewsStrike fear over foreign labour
The Construction Confederation has warned that the industry faces industrial action unless issues over employing foreign workers can be resolved
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CommentOpen mike: Read 'em and weep
As Jeff Howell's postbag shows, the people the government encouraged to buy their own homes in the 1980s were cut adrift with no idea what to do when they failed
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News'Fast track' Diana memorial fountain ready for opening
Seven years after her death, £3m memorial fountain to Princess of Wales is completed in Hyde Park
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CommentThe meddle detector
The Construction Act is coming under review but, while there are good arguments for some change, the scrutinisers should remember: if it ain't broke …
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NewsDelays hit Jarvis' self-build HQ
Troubled contractor Jarvis is two months behind on its own headquarters in Smithfield, central London.