All Building articles in 2000 Issue 12
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Features
The power of speech
No amount of flash graphics and high-tech software can compensate for a presentation that is unstructured and hard to follow. Remember your first duty: to keep your audience awake.
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News
YJL plans next shopping spree
Contractor announces £12.5m Britannia takeover; another buy expected soon.
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Features
New school tie
Birds Portchmouth Russum's bridge linking two school buildings is a sculpture in steel and fabric with a Wild West theme.
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News
Paul Whitmore transfers to Morgan Sindall
Laing Construction’s managing director joins smaller rival after 14 months in the job.
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Features
Site lines
These sites are billed as the "construction marketplace" and the "one-stop guide to the industry". Do they live up to their slogans?
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Comment
How to score
First person If we can get the construction team to work together rather than watching their own backs, we could be on to a winner.
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News
Peterhouse targets support services group
Developer Peterhouse Group is negotiating to buy a fully listed support services business. Group chairman David Jackson said: “We are close to completing two or three smaller deals likely to total about £4m but we have also identified a much larger target and expect to complete in 2001.”The construction-to-services ...
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Features
Good as their words
The second article in a series on collateral warranties looks at the principal warranty, supplementary warranties and a vital aspect of professional indemnity insurance.
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News
MPs launch inquiry into Tube funding
Angry contractors condemn “completely unnecessary” decision to scrutinise £7bn refurbishment.
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News
'Merge, then float,' stakeholder tells MDA
Allesch-Taylor wants to take QS to the market after getting approval for his representative on the board.
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Features
The threat of exposure
Adjudication has put insurers under pressure. So what do they do? Pass the burden of risk on to their policyholders, of course, inventing all manner of get-out clauses to make it hard for them to recover.
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Features
Guaranteeing the Eden experiment
The Eden Project is the brainchild of a drop-out musician-turned-historic garden restorer Tim Smit. This CV hardly qualifies anyone to design and manage a ground-breaking construction project worth £75m, yet Smit had the foresight to second Ronnie Murning, director of London-based Land Architects, as design and development director.In combination with ...
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Features
Don't forget to write
Does the Construction Act apply if there is only an oral agreement? The act seems to say yes, but the judge in a recent case said no. Clearly it's an urgent case for treatment.
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News
DETR reassures firms over pollution law
The DETR is trying to calm housebuilders’ and contractors’ fears that new regulations on contaminated land will leave them with huge clean-up bills.The rules, which come into force on 1 April, are in a revision of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Under the act, local authorities will keep a ...
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Features
Space-age design: a fly's eye view
The pair of giant spaceframe “biomes” at the £75m Eden Project in Cornwall are two of the most futuristic artificial structures in the UK. However, their design by Andrew Whalley, project director at Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, was deliberately influenced by the natural geometry of leaves, fly eyes, dragonfly wings ...
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Features
A cunning plan
Don't drift between jobs or settle for second best. Start running your career like a business and maximise profit.
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Features
Constructiongateway.Com.UK
This site by Business to Business Internet sets out to provide an information highway for construction, but it looks overcrowded and unfocused. It claims that it is a “one-stop” guide to the UK industry and it does provide links to other sites, but it is fiddly to use.The search facility ...
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Features
Coming up roses?
In the first of a series on urban regeneration, we report on the New Deal for Communities and ask if the programme is living up to its promises.