All Building articles in 1999 Issue 34
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Features
Just the job
The Aukett Associates director tells Nancy Cavill why he gave up teaching, and why, like a swan, he never loses his cool.
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Comment
Past improvements
The refurbishment of old buildings makes more sense than ever before – but only if it’s for the right reasons.
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Features
Who's going to pay?
Does the Scheme for Construction Contracts give adjudicators the power to make one side pay the other's costs in an adjudication? The jury is still out.
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Features
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
RMJM Scotland has just completed the final phase of a £5m refurbishment of Glasgow s Tron Theatre in a suitably dramatic style. The theatre was created in 1982 from a tight-knit cluster of medieval, Georgian and Victorian buildings. The most recent work includes the refurbishment of the main auditorium, ...
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News
Ethical foreign policy threatens exports
Billions in overseas contracts could be affected by change in commercial policy of state export insurer.
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News
Majors submit Egan-style training plans
Major Contractors Group’s submission to CITB will promote industry-wide managerial training.
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Features
Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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News
Foster submits new Wandsworth design
Architect Foster and Partners submitted a new scheme for a luxury residential development at Albion Wharf in London’s Wandsworth to local planners on Wednesday.The scheme, the fifth designed by Foster for the riverside site, replaces one called in by deputy prime minister John Prescott. The previous scheme, which rose ...
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Features
Dirty, dangerous work
A consultant recently went down for almost £20m after a judge found that it had negligently advised its client as to how much remediation was required in a development. What are the lessons for others?
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Features
Cost study: Teaching and research facility
In the first completed PFI project in higher education, a listed Victorian hospital building was converted into an advanced teaching and research facility. The 25-year service contract called for detailed life-cycle costing of materials. Compiled by Jarvis and HLM Architects
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Features
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
A new restaurant forms the centrepiece of the £4.5m refurbishment of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk, the historic complex of maltings converted in 1967 for the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears. Designed by Penoyre & Prasad Architects, the 100-seat restaurant fits on to a mezzanine floor ...
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News
Sainsbury construction chief in shock departure
Partnering innovator Charles Johnston considers setting up his own firm after quitting on Monday.
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Comment
Care for the community
The government needs to help us shape our own communities before British cities become totally segregated by wealth.
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News
BT unveils Jaguar longlist
BT has revealed a longlist of bidders for the £200m-400m Project Jaguar scheme that will revolutionise management of its estate.The longlist, cut from about 80 firms that expressed an interest in Project Jaguar, will be reduced further within the next few weeks, with one or two winning bidders selected by ...
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Features
Three of the best
Refurbishment projects in Cheshire, Glasgow and Suffolk all feature sympathetic modern interventions in historic buildings.
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News
Late deal averts writs over Portcullis House fit-out
Project manager intervenes to settle row over quality of oak fittings on £250m MPs’ building.
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News
UK firms asked to help quake victims
Turkish government calls on industry to provide 30 000 prefab homes; UK firms already in region will get priority on rebuilding work.
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News
Mowlem regional arms join forces
Mowlem is combining its three regional building businesses into a national division that will be headed by former northern division chief Brian May. The new operation, which will pull together the North, South-east and South-west arms, will operate under one management team and will have a turnover of £600m.May has ...