All Building articles in 2001 issue 11

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  • Features

    Time for work

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Michael Ryley explains why the European court is moving to protect paid holidays for workers on short-term contracts

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 9 March 2001

  • Features

    Watch out for splinters

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Comment

    Ministerial meddling

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Let's stop talking

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Glen Sabin - says the industry needs to stop discussing partnering and start including manufacturers

  • Features

    Paul Hyett

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    Reining in the Trojan horses

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Features

    Support the home team

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management

  • Comment

    Holding on

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • News

    Northaw, Hertfordshire

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    London-based architect Hudson Featherstone has completed this £700,000 private house in Northaw, Hertfordshire.

  • News

    Stevenage on the hunt for firm to revamp new town

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Stevenage council is looking for a consultant to turn the 1960s new town into a shopping mecca.

  • News

    Mixed-use scheme, east London

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Detailed permission has been granted for this £19m development overlooking Mile End Park

  • Features

    Here's one we made earlier

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Dublin in height

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    DL&E ties knot with tax specialist

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Developers 'should help pay for flood-risk maps'

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A National Audit Office report into flood defences has called for developers to contribute to the costs of compiling flood-risk maps.

  • Comment

    A declaration of war

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Orders slumped in December

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Contracts

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    More talks on Constructionline

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    MORE talks over the future of Constructionline, the public-private partnership that vets contractors, will be held next week.