All Building articles in 2000 issue 46
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White paper signals start of urban renaissance
Government announces a five-year regeneration timetable in an attempt to stem urban exodus.
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The outsider
High-flying executive Ken Brown has been drafted in as president of architect SOM. His mission: to transform the business of architecture.
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Sort it out yourself
A protocol for construction and civil engineering disputes has just been introduced, and it does everything to stop you getting into court short of hiding the judges. But will it work?
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New York storeys
The most exciting city on earth has long had a reputation for low-grade high-rises and Mob rule. But now New York is getting its groove back …
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The land of opportunity
Despite the special relationship, a shared language and the rest, UK firms often find it harder to get work in boomtown USA than China. Here's a comprehensive guide to the problems – and how to overcome them.
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Oxfordshire housing plan
The North Oxfordshire Consortium and the Ministry of Defence have lodged a planning application to build 1000 homes and other facilities on a former RAF base at Heyford Park in Oxfordshire.
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Output higher in third quarter
Construction output made a recovery in the third quarter of the year, suggesting that the decline experienced in the second quarter was a blip rather than the start of a downward trend.
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Metal guru
Frank Gehry is showing the technophobic US construction industry how computers can transform building. But does anyone believe him?
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Green is good
Wall Street's Gordon Gekko summed up the ethos of the 1980s as "greed is good". Now consumers are forcing developers to think green, not just greenback.
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Product focus - paving fights the fumes
Marshalls are working with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation to introduce a paving to the UK that is claimed to neutralise nitrous oxide from car exhaust fumes and convert them into nitrates, which are then washed down the drain.
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Famous five
Norman, Richard, Zaha, Nick and Terry are having awfully big adventures in the States, with a run of projects all the way from Seattle to Cincinnati …
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Fairview MBO offer rejected as too low
HOUSEBUILDER Fairview Holdings' plan for a management buyout hit another snag this week when independent directors rejected an offer of 175p a share as too low.
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Three vie for one of UK's worst estates
Shillam + Smith, PRP Architects and HTA Architects in frame to win £70m 10-year redevelopment of deprived east London estate.
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Deputy mayor slams London housing design
Nicky Gavron calls for innovations and higher density in a stinging attack on architects.
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Site death toll surge puts industry on spot
Ministers set to lay down the law at crisis meeting after HSE figures show 59% jump in deaths.
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Portcullis House cost probe
Government spending watchdog the National Audit Office is to investigate the cost of the building of Portcullis House, the £231m office building for MPs.
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Interest charges
With the trend towards no-win, no-fee agreements in construction claims cases, the obscure charge of champerty acts as a barrier to profiteers' ill-gotten gains.
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Last chances
Parties often have a time limit to raise objections after a certificate has been issued. But they also have the right to call for an adjudicator at any time. So, can they or can't they?