All Building articles in 2003 issue 49
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Features
Minority report
We examine the implications of new laws introduced to tackle religious and sexual discrimination in the workplace
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News
The missing millions
There was little to reassure Ballast's subcontractors at Tuesday's creditors' meeting.
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NewsQueen of kiosks
Italian architects Riccardo Bianchini and Federica Lusiardi have fought off 211 entries to win a RIBA competition to design a structure for Cleopatra's Kiosk on the north bank of the Thames in London. The other two designs on the shortlist were by Bath-based practice Rees Smyth Vermont and Aberdeen-based ...
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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Features… and heave
Wembley Stadium's new arch will soon focus the pride of a football obsessed nation. But the construction team's pride depends on lifting 1650 tonnes without going to extra time and penalties, as we find out
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Comment
Grumpy? Van Morrison?
You may go to great lengths wording a contract to protect your interests but if you then go and wrongfully terminate it, you'll pay – even if you are a troubador
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NewsMitie plans memorial to founder
The board of support services group Mitie is planning to dedicate a memorial to David Telling, its founder, who died at the end of October
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News
Strategic forum sets out six-point plan for industry
Strategic Forum chairman Peter Rogers has set out a six-point plan to improve the UK construction industry.
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News
Rail work is the fast track to growth
Half of the fastest growing construction firms in the UK are rail contractors, according to The Sunday Times.
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NewsFancy a ziggurat?
Here are some present ideas for the architecture buffs in your life: everything from bendy, trendy biomorphics to the monuments of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Comment
Et tu, Simon?
You'd think a construction lawyer embarking on his own building work would draw on his experience to ensure that he didn't end up at a well-known creek. Well …
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NewsFlagging enthusiasm
Victorious England rugby players were greeted with a huge St George flag unfurled on the front of a construction site during their World Cup celebration parade in central London on Monday. The 94 × 16 m flag hung in front of the £53m West 8 site on Regent Street, which ...
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Comment
Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill – it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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FeaturesCost model: PFI hospitals
Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital
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NewsComing in to land
Reid Architecture has unveiled the first images of a landmark air traffic control tower at Edinburgh Airport for BAA Scottish Airports. The 57 m high tower is to be located on a main access road and will have a car-free zone around it to safeguard against potential terrorist bomb blasts. ...
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FeaturesCherry on top
Alan Cherry is the ambassador of housebuilding – the multimillionaire chairman of Countryside Properties has the ear of a number of policymaking bodies. And as we find out, he’s not afraid to speak his mind.
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CommentCheck, please
In the JCT design-and-build form, an application for payment automatically becomes the sum due. So how can an employer avoid paying an inflated bill?
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News
RTPI challenges planning targets
The Royal Town Planning Institute has launched a campaign to scrap targets imposed by government to speed up planning approval
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NewsBroker's notes: What the Sex Pistols can teach us
"I yam an antichrist! I yam an anarchist!" I'm not really either, of course.