All Building articles in 2000 issue 49
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Features
The survivor
Baroness Dean spent the first half of this year fighting for the Housing Corporation's survival. Now she has to prove that she can make it work.
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Sensory perfection
Surface Architects is experimenting with a complex matrix of eight shifting "sensory layers" for the offices of a cutting-edge software firm.
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The Shock of the Old
The Shock of the OldPhilip WilkinsonChannel Four Books£20192 pagesThis books comes as a companion to the recent Channel 4 series of the same name, in which Piers Gough strolled around the heritage sites of Britain explaining that, although we may find modern architecture shocking, historic buildings which we know and ...
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Comment
Objection!
Why Building missed the point on the floods, pre-action protocols, legal leagues, proportional costs and adjudicator impartiality – and what was that one on the working time regulations all about?
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Features
Renaissance money
The urban white paper published two weeks ago outlined a number of measures designed to give a fiscal backbone to the government's ambitious plans. But will they have the desired effect?
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Just the job
The engineer-turned-architect who created an artificial Brazilian rainforest in Germany talks about his multifaceted career.
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News
Website targets housebuilders
A NEW E-COMMERCE venture aimed solely at housebuilders, thebuilding-site.com, is offering firms a stake in the company.
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Comment
To honour and obey
Contractors in a partnering relationship may be obliged to act strictly in the client's interest – with scrupulous honesty and openness – or face the penalties
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News
Multiplex headhunts stadium specialists
Australian contractor sounding out specialist staff to work on Wembley as client meets banks today to remove doubts over funding.
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Comment
Gutter sniping
An architect designed a shed but omitted to include overflows in the gutter, which flooded and ruined goods stored inside. Was it negligent, and therefore liable for the damage?
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Features
Young guns go for it
Let's put plunge pools in the boardroom! Three exciting designers have been given their heads by office clients who want more than neat workstations in a tasteful shade of grey. On this page, Urban Research Laboratory's way with walls, over is Richard Scott's "sensory layers" and on page 44, And-Associates' ...
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Features
Fulham's premier stadium
Mohamed Al Fayed has big plans for his football club: promotion to the Premiership and a new £70m stadium.
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News
Rivals swoop for disgruntled Laing staff
Contractors bid to poach construction employees as uncertainty continues over sale.
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News
Industry output dips in third quarter
Construction output has fallen in all sectors except housing and repair, according to downbeat statistics from the DETR.
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Features
Eric de Maré & John Maltby
Eric de Maré & John MaltbyRobert ElwallRIBA Publications£9 each108 pagesFed up with those glossy architectural photofests that demand a crane to lift and cost the price of a camera to buy? Well, here are a couple of enchanting tiddlers that will fit neatly into a Christmas stocking without making a ...
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Features
Danger mouse
A realistic software package gives designers and engineers a virtual vision of how building occupants would fare in a fire – allowing for amendments that could save many lives.
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News
Safety crisis: now five die in nine days
Employers under increased pressure as unions renew call for roving safety representatives to vet sites.
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Prescott targets contractors
After Hatfield, John Prescott hauled Railtrack over the coals. In a week when four people died on British sites, he has set his sights on contractors. Can the industry pull back from the brink?