All Building articles in 2001 issue 05 – Page 2

  • News

    Yorkon to trial prefabs in home city

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Murray Grove team of Yorkon and architect Cartwright Pickard to start work in spring on modular scheme to tackle York's housing crisis.

  • News

    Churchfield plunged into financial turmoil

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Fit-out contractor prepares to go into administration as source blames troublesome London project.

  • Features

    Countryside Environmental centre, Redditch, Worcestershire

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Wolverhampton practice On Line Architects designed Redditch's countryside centre for water sport clubs and to educate children about the local environment.

  • News

    CIC calls for undergraduate safety training

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    THE Construction Industry Council intends to call for mandatory undergraduate training in health and safety at this month's safety summit.

  • News

    Rogers to lobby for Carlisle's landmark bridge

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Fate of Studio E's £1.8m bridge in doubt after council calls for Millennium Commission funds to be withdrawn.

  • News

    Mergers set to breed super housebuilders

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    After taking over Beazer, Persimmon boss predicts sector will be swallowed by five 10 000-unit firms.

  • News

    Government and industry team up to stop brain drain

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Construction bodies to draw up proposals to halt the decline in the number of industry professionals.

  • News

    Birse directors form own firm

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Three of contractor Birse's top Midland directors are leaving to form their own project management business.

  • Features

    Mine's bigger than yours

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Leeds' Bridgewater Place could become the tallest residential building in the north. That is until Manchester comes up with something even higher.

  • News

    Benefits of good design proven

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Good urban design adds economic value to regeneration schemes, according to detailed research to be published next week.

  • Features

    Madel behaviour

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Stanhope is determined to build quicker and cheaper. At its £46m mixed-use scheme in Holborn, it is trialling simulation and materials-handling software that should allow it to do just that.

  • News

    Legal battles push Birse into red

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Disputes lead to £24m of exceptional items, but Lincolnshire contractor insists that it has put its house in order.

  • News

    Balfour Beatty pulls out of MCG

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty has quit the Major Contractors Group claiming that the organisation does not represent the needs of top firms.

  • Features

    Kapoor and McAslan's art pavilion trumpets Sally Army

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    This collaboration between artist and architect will provide London with a new Thames-side landmark.

  • Features

    The Engineer's Contribution to Contemporary Architecture

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary ArchitectureAngus MacdonaldThomas Telford£25.00168 pagesHeinz Isler by John ChiltonEladio Dieste by Remo PedreschiPeter Rice by André BrownGiven that structural engineering is central to modern architecture, there is a great deal of mileage in exploring the relationships of the two disciplines at their most synergetic. The ...

  • Features

    Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the CityKatherine ShonfieldRoutledge£19.00204 pagesWhy does my flat leak? Why is brutalist architecture so impersonal? What on earth does this have to do with Mary Poppins? And having read Katherine Shonfield's intriguing study of these critical questions, am I any the wiser? Shonfield sets out ...

  • News

    Architect wins in Doncaster

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    A Glenn Howells-led design team has won an RIBA competition to design a £6m performance venue for Doncaster council and Doncaster college. The team beat competition from Pawson Williams, Levitt Bernstein, EEA, Tim Foster Architects and Law & Dunbar-Nasmith.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsNorthern-based Totty Construction has appointed Philip Mason quality manager.Colin Ford has been appointed construction director at Midlands-based regional contractor Pettifer Construction. He joins the company from Shepherd Construction.Graham Howe, previously with Willmott Dixon Construction, has joined Norwich-based JS Hay as operations manager.Taylor Woodrow has appointed Tony McGarahan director of ...

  • Features

    Real millennium answers

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    December's Real millennium quiz led to a flood of well-researched entries – and one contestant who thought Cherie Blair spent £1m on baby Leo's nursery. And although no one got all 50 teasers right, the five winners answered between 41 and 45 questions correctly. They each win a state-of-the-art DVD ...

  • News

    Another glass mountain

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership designed this £100m scheme next to the Tower of London for Taylor Woodrow Property.