All Building articles in 2001 issue 10
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Watch what you say
Ann Minogue - Project managers should take care not to say something in post-tender negotiations that turns out to be untrue – it's a whole new area of potential liability
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The right stone
Nick Schumann - How to prevent a disaster when specifying natural materials
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Results
Aggregate turnover leaps 22%International quarry and aggregates group Aggregate Industries reported turnover up 22% for the year to 31 December 2000. It rose from £934m in 1999 to £1.13bn. Operating profit increased 19%, from £125m to £149m.WYG turnover up 19%Multidisciplinary consulting engineer and project manager White Young Green showed a ...
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A question of trust
Richard Davis - If a contractor and client set up a construction trust to protect subcontractors and it is subsequently cancelled, is the contractor liable for breach of trust?
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Twin peaks
Despite the disasters, delays and last year's crane tragedy that left three men dead, the race to complete Britain's second tallest buildings is nearing completion. The twin monoliths that will be HSBC and Citigroup's HQs, now jostle for space in the London skyline
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Rethinking partnering
Colin Harding - Forget meaningless buzzwords, it's time for the industry to come to terms with the Egan reforms and work together in a genuine spirit of partnership
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Under starters orders
Regeneration In the first of a new series, Chris Brown explains how European bureaucracy is stifling the British industry's attempts to kick-start the urban renaissance
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A school of one's own
Richard Saxon - explains how Building Design Partnership became a PFI consortium
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New skyline
Two additions to the London skyline were topped out this week. The 210 m, 44-storey towers at Canary Wharf in London Docklands are to become the headquarters of the HSBC and Citigroup banks when they open next February.
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Lead times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald analyses in detail movements in the market for mechanical and electrical contractors.
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Lead times
Lead times of 38 works packages in the mechanical and electrical contractors market.
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Maidstone, Kent
his bridge is one of a pair designed by Studio E Architects to link two parts of a park across the Medway River.
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How to survive MIPIM
Heading off to Cannes next week for the MIPIM property fair? If you want to keep your cred and be seen at all the coolest hang-outs, you'd better read this first
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Taywood Homes MD quits
Taywood Homes managing director Stephen Brazier has left the firm since its takeover of Bryant.
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WSP plans global shopping spree
Building services group WSP is looking for international acquisitions, particularly in the USA, because the UK market is too small to sustain its growth.
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Waterloo glazing remedy mooted
Overhead glass at the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo is set to be covered with a film similar to laminated glass to stop panes falling.
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How to pick a fight
Anthony Morgan - Contractors desperately need a reliable "ready reckoner" to assess the merits of different forms of dispute resolution – before they get in too deep