All Building articles in 2002 issue 49

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  • Features

    Ex-Wilcon boss returns to housebuilding with Peabody Trust

    2002-12-18T12:59:00Z

    Former Wilson Connolly director John Weir this week returned to the housebuilding industry as a consultant to housing association Peabody Trust.Weir has a six-month contract to help the trust compete with the private sector and establish itself as a provider of homes for sale. The former Wilson Connolly director won ...

  • News

    Workshop

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    This week's IT extravaganza introduces the latest generation of writable-screen PCs, smart phones and personal digital assistants – all the tools you need to make the paperless office a reality

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 6 December 2002

  • Comment

    Power politics

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Consider how many of the world's problems – economic, political or climatic – are linked to energy policy. Then consider going solar on the next project

  • News

    Weir returns with Peabody Trust

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Former Wilson Connolly director John Weir this week returned to the housebuilding industry as a consultant to housing association Peabody Trust.

  • Features

    Paperless tiger

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Singapore is going to be the first country in the world to do all its building control with intelligent object technology. Soon, checking a design against regulations will be the work of a few seconds. Victoria Madine wonders when the UK will do the same

  • Comment

    Sauce material

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Pornographic messages, Viagra ads, rampant viruses … OK, so the internet's not perfect, but it beats sifting through dusty tomes in Lincoln's Inn law library

  • Features

    Models of solid light

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time, it would have taken a craftsman weeks to build an architect's model from drawings. Now you just press a "go" icon and, hey presto, a laser crafts a miniature edifice in resin. Matthew Richards explores the world of rapid prototyping

  • News

    Object lesson

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Object lesson: Architect Building Design Partnership has been appointed by the University of Cambridge to design a faculty of education next to Homerton College in Hills Road. BDP has proposed a wooden structure with a zinc-clad roof that would reflect the wooden libraries and communal halls of the university's colleges. ...

  • Features

    Just the job

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Christopher Groome, business manager of the International Alliance for Interoperability, tells Victoria Madine how he is helping to make construction IT literate

  • News

    OFT launches inquiry into liability insurance

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    The Office for Fair Trading has launched an investigation into employer's liability insurance.

  • Features

    Neil Holloway

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Microsoft UK's dynamic managing director is about to offer a cornucopia of supersmart IT devices to the construction industry, and he's eager to tell Marcus Fairs all about them …

  • Features

    Heart warming

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    After being abandoned by the public for a flashy young out-of-town mall, Sheffield's city centre is enticing them back with a number of arresting projects, the latest of which is this Pringle Richards Sharratt winter garden

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    This week, Arup hopes to swap icons for estates, the most expensive Christmas party decorations ever, and a lesson in the dark arts of bridge refurbishment

  • News

    Row over German standards

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    British firms are set to take Germany to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg after it announced that it intended to retain its own product standards.

  • Comment

    A few simple rules

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Online collaboration tools are there to make everybody's life easier. And if you consider the legal ramifications before the project starts, they might just do so

  • Features

    Eight steps to a paperless office

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Or, throw away your humming white boxes and be free …

  • News

    Salvage from Edinburgh fire to be used in rebuilding

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Demolition crews save what they can for the reconstruction of the Scottish capital's historic Cowgate district.

  • Comment

    Don't get tangled in the web

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Online procurement has the same legal requirements as paper-based contracts, but care should be taken over conditions, jurisdiction and the issue of when it is binding

  • Features

    Follow me or die

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    The head on the screen, severed but still talking, has a warning to give you. Unless you leave your futile attachment to things of paper (with the exception of magazines, obviously), you face a future of non-existence … Thomas Lane made a record of the seance