All Building articles in 2001 issue 11
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Features
Time for work
Michael Ryley explains why the European court is moving to protect paid holidays for workers on short-term contracts
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Features
Watch out for splinters
Natural unfinished timber is the cladding material of choice for fashionable architects these days, but not everyone knows how to use it. Choose the wrong type of wood or an inappropriate fixing method and the rot could set in …
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Comment
Ministerial meddling
Gerald Kaufman - Wembley, Picketts Lock and the new British Library all have one thing in common: government intervention. In no instance did it help at all
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Features
Let's stop talking
Glen Sabin - says the industry needs to stop discussing partnering and start including manufacturers
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Paul Hyett
He's no superstar, but the RIBA's practical, birdwatching new president intends to make his name through education and the recruitment of ethnic minorities.
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Reining in the Trojan horses
Developers stand accused of employing superstar architects to hoodwink planners – and then dumping them for lesser designers. How can we stop the dumbing-down of architecture?
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Support the home team
Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management
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Comment
Holding on
Tony Bingham - An adjudicator has told you to pay money to a firm veering towards insolvency, against which you have a counterclaim outstanding. Must you pay?
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News
Northaw, Hertfordshire
London-based architect Hudson Featherstone has completed this £700,000 private house in Northaw, Hertfordshire.
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News
Stevenage on the hunt for firm to revamp new town
Stevenage council is looking for a consultant to turn the 1960s new town into a shopping mecca.
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Mixed-use scheme, east London
Detailed permission has been granted for this £19m development overlooking Mile End Park
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Features
Here's one we made earlier
Cardboard isn't just for Blue Peter. Buro Happold thinks it's the green building material of the future, and is testing its theory on an Essex school. Thomas Lane finds out how to build with giant toilet rolls – and asks what happens if it rains
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Features
Dublin in height
It's twice as tall as its neighbours and clad in tropical hardwood, so it's no surprise that some were nervous about de Blacam and Meagher's Temple Bar tower.
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News
DL&E ties knot with tax specialist
Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest has erged with property taxation specialist NBW Crosher & James to create what they claim is the UK's largest property and construction tax consultant.
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Developers 'should help pay for flood-risk maps'
A National Audit Office report into flood defences has called for developers to contribute to the costs of compiling flood-risk maps.
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Comment
A declaration of war
Andrew Hemsley - There might be a faint whiff of partnering about Defence Estates' prime contract, but don't be deceived – it's almost deliberately adversarial
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News
Orders slumped in December
New construction orders for the three months to this January crept up 1% compared with same period a year ago, according to figures released by the DETR.
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Contracts
Balfour lands Whitehall refurbBalfour Beatty has won a £23m contract to refurbish the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, central London, involving the construction of a glass atrium between the Ripley Building and Kirkland House.Buro and G&T join Ascot teamAscot has picked engineer Buro Happold and QS Gardiner & Theobald to join ...
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More talks on Constructionline
MORE talks over the future of Constructionline, the public-private partnership that vets contractors, will be held next week.