All Building articles in 2001 issue 06
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News
Wolseley sells subsidiary
Building materials group Wolseley has sold its boiler and burner making business for £10m.
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Comment
Reasonable precautions
The government's new facilities management contract is flexible and reasonably fair. However, there are one or two things to beware of before you sign on the dotted line.
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University of Newcastle Medical School
This 409-seat lecture theatre, in the centre right of this diagram above the existing medical school entrance, was designed by local architect FaulknerBrowns.
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Features
Miralles' last laugh
Part imaginative conservation project, part crazy new build, Utrecht town hall is a fitting tribute to its late architect.
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Pidgley junior resigns
Tony K Pidgley, managing director of Berkeley Homes and son of Berkeley Group managing director Tony W Pidgley, has resigned.
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Features
John White
On the rugby pitch and in the City, Persimmon's chief executive has a tough reputation. And as he tackles Beazer to create the UK's largest housebuilder, he'll need it.
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Features
Getting the Tube to work
Capitalist scum, Red Ken, the Hatfield crash, interminable waits, dirt and misery. The saga over the part-privatisation of the Tube has it all. But at last there could be light at the end of the tunnel …
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Floodplain guidance out
Construction minister Nick Raynsford has confirmed that developers will have to take responsibility for avoiding building on floodplains.
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Comment
Eek a mouse!
Process engineering work falls outside the scope of the Construction Act, so adjudicators would have no jurisdiction in a dispute involving process giant ABB – or would they?
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Mixed development, east London
Work has started on this £14m scheme at Britannia Walk, which includes 45 homes, 99 units for key workers, office blocks and live–work units.
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Features
Dear Robert
In the first of a new monthly series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose answers your career queries.
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Comment
Not-so-great court
First person - The British Museum's Great Court opened to critical acclaim, but it's a big let-down, and the reading room is far worse.
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Corby gets regeneration plans under way
Deputy prime minister John Prescott visited Corby, the rundown former steel town in Northamptonshire, this week to launch an urban regeneration initiative.
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Contractors line up for new wave of PFI hospitals
Three shortlisted for £250m Manchester children's hospital, one of the biggest projects in the third PFI group.
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Corus reassures construction
Steel producer Corus has sought to allay the fears of the construction industry following its closures of plants in Wales and northern England.
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Changes to Tube contracts imminent
Bidders for the Tube part-privatisation scheme prepare to rebid as GLA's Kiley pushes for a more unified management structure.
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Minister calls for council design champions
Local authorities should follow the lead taken by government and appoint design champions to promote good buildings, culture minister Alan Howarth told this week's Building for the Future conference.
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Features
We'd like to build the world a house
Özdemir and Sheena Keskin have spent 15 years developing the Termo House. They say the fast, easy-to-build and eco-friendly system will provide low-cost housing for millions around the world.
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Office market set to run into buffers
Report predicts that commercial and industrial output will dip for three years as rate of UK economic growth falls.