All Building articles in 08 April 2011 – Page 3
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CommentSmall domestic disputes often get out of hand
A small domestic building dispute begins with a niggle and ends up like the gunfight at the OK Corral – but costing thousands of pounds. The pity is, it’s all so unnecessary
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NewsNetwork Rail project division could run overseas schemes
The separate infrastructure business is still in the planning stage
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CommentDos and Don'ts: Interface issues
In the latest in our series on dos and don’ts, we look at interface issues - what they are and how to manage them when they arise
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Turn the lights down
Cooper Lighting and Safety has launched a LED downlighter that has been designed to directly replace halogen downlighters.
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NewsSerpentine Gallery to include garden
Peter Zumthor’s design for 2011 Serpentine Gallery will include ’a garden within a garden’
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CommentGreat leaders of our time
The industry, and indeed the world, is on the move and to stay on top chief executives have to predict where it’s going. The successful could even win a Building Award
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FeaturesGuy's Hospital Tower refurbishment: Nurse, the screens
Penoyre & Prasad is giving Guy’s Hospital Tower – a brutalist eyesore in central London – a new £25m facade. But, says Ike Ijeh, it will take more than a clever bit of cosmetic surgery to turn this one into a looker
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CommentPower and influence
It’s a big-stakes game for construction this week, with large donations to politicos and whole countries being flogged off. Meanwhile, Building itself pulls off a mass deception
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Iron protection
Hargreaves Foundry has supplied bespoke and off the shelf cast iron rainwater goods as part of the refurbishment of the grade II-listed University House, part of the University of East London.
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NewsKilburn masterplan progresses
Planning permission has been gained for stage two of north-west London site
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Features
Spotlight: Sustaining lead times
Lead times are the best way to put yourself ahead of the market and stay competitive in these tough economic times, says Brian Moone. But how do you sustain this once demand picks up?
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CommentMore nuclear, please
Having been struck by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, then flooded by a tidal wave over 10m high, the Fukushima reactors, understandably, suffered some damage
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Spread the word
Hansom is right (25 March, page 19) that the CIOB has better things to do than worry about a definition of construction management; and we’re doing them
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Underground stone
Hanson Bath & Portland Stone is re-introducing Box Ground stone after a break of 60 years
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2011 Chief Executive of the Year: Ian Tyler
Balfour Beatty’s Ian Tyler has steered his company through government cuts and a downturn with an eye togrowth and a fierce intellect
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James Review says new national contracts should be set up
Long anticipated report - published today - makes total of 16 recommendations for schools procurement
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James Review: new schools to be standardised
Stipulates that design and regulations should be simplified
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CommentContract advice: clauses that risk unravelling your claim
Certain combinations of clauses may have profound consequences for the unsuspecting contractor or subcontractor if the terms are not strictly complied with