All Building articles in 1999 Issue 47
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Tendering rules stifled 2000 Village innovation
G&T report says English Partnerships’ procurement rules prevented partnering on Millennium Village.
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Specialists in pre-2000 boom
Specialist contractors have had a good third quarter but fear that workload will dip in the new year, according to the latest report from trade organisation the National Specialist Contractors Council.On the one hand, the rush to complete millennium projects has boosted workload in the late summer – bringing with ...
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Curtain up on £214m opera house revamp
Remodelled house to open on time but six performances cancelled because of equipment problems.
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It’s all in the planning
The CDM Regulations impose stringent health and safety obligations on planning supervisors, so construction contracts must include clauses that help them do their jobs.
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About time, too
In his third and final article on how an architect is supposed to decide extensions of time, Dominic Helps reveals the identities of the parties, the facts of the case, and the decision of the court.
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Bring on the accolades
There are prizes for everything these days, so why not for law publications that help us understand all the rules and regulations bearing down on us?
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Action man
Electrician Pete Dyer left Croydon to join a group expedition to Mongolia – which is a long way to go to organise the construction of a clinic out of straw.
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Retailers fund research on adopting Egan
University analyses shop refurbishment procurement at Boots, Pizza Express, Arcadia and Borders.
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Appointments
ContractorsTim Philpott has been appointed health and safety manager at Surrey-based Bancourt Construction.Martin Lunn has been promoted to manager of the design and build team at Higgins.EBC Construction has promoted John Crowhurst to site foreman. Paul Lakin has joined the firm as site manager. David Chudley and Martin Knott have ...
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Audit Office slams Tyneside DSS job
Spending watchdog queries soaring fees on £241m PFI deal to build social security headquarters.
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Treasury to gee up best value initiative
Treasury secretary Andrew Smith this week announced that an advisory panel is to be formed to help the public sector introduce best value procurement, which has replaced compulsory competitive tendering.Smith, who was speaking at a conference on best value, said the Public Services Productivity Panel would include leading business figures ...
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Could do better
The UK’s first PFI school, the Sir John Colfox in Dorset, is a big hit with staff and pupils. It’s just a shame that the architecture is so uninspiring.
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Top clients set to demand better-skilled suppliers
UK clients expected to back motion requiring suppliers to be fully trained and certified or risk tendering ban.
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Schröder in Holzmann rescue bid
Germany’s second-largest contractor, Phillip Holzmann, was hoping on Wednesday that chancellor Gerhard Schröder would convince the company’s banks to agree to a rescue package for the troubled company. Holzmann filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday this week after its 20 banks failed to back its restructuring plan. However, Holzmann could still ...
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Summertime blue
The problem of how to prevent glare and heat gain while letting sunlight flood into a building found a new solution in a German bank: electrochromic glass.
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Price war set to break out over latent defects cover
Local authority building controllers set pace by slashing price of defects liability insurance.
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Building for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than £2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at Building’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.
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Opera house hitches lead to cancellations
The Royal Opera House, which officially opens next week, has cancelled the whole run of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre because of problems with computerised scenery-moving equipment.The system involves a “train set” that takes scenery from the theatre warehouse to the stage area and the fly-tower. The fly-tower then moves ...
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge