All Building articles in 2001 issue 26
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Viva Viiva
Viiva Architects, a young Finnish practice, has won the Arup World Architecture Award 2001 for this Finnish embassy building in Berlin.
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Features
Strength through reform
Can the Egan agenda survive recession? Without it, a downturn would be horrific
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Comment
Read the small print
When it comes to insurance policies, beware of the exclusions, limitations, ifs and buts. As the lawyers well know, interpretation is nine points of the law
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Features
The wizard from Oz
Stone the crows! They've got someone from the New World to design the visitor centre for England's oldest monument. But Barrie Marshall has already won plaudits for his magical understanding of Stonehenge
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Comment
Shock of the new
Clients outside construction are starting to experiment with adjudication – once they have got over their initial scepticism
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News
Market maker
The pictured £14m redevelopment of Kensington market in west London, designed by architect Paskin Kyriakides, has won planning permission after an appeal.
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London prices to soar in next year
Building tender prices in London are set to jump 5.3% over the next year, according to a report from cost consultant EC Harris.
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Lead times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and Gardiner & Theobald turns the spotlight on structural steel frames
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Just the job
We talk to trainee architect Kanyisa Sobuwa, who says that the best thing about her job is seeing her ideas come together in the shape of a finished building
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Comment
Fair-weather friends
Too many people's commitment to partnering is a politically correct veneer that cracks to reveal the old adversarial thinking as soon as the going gets tough
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Comment
Speak English!
Acronyms and abbreviations are part of life in the industry, but there are signs that communication is beginning to crumble under the sheer weight of jargon
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News
End in sight at Wembley
A pared-down version of the £660m National Stadium at Wembley looked likely to go ahead this week after two companies offered to underwrite the project.
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Features
The Eden effect
Or how two enormous greenhouses have cultivated economic growth in a corner of the country blighted by poverty
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News
Fears that on-site drug use is rising
Construction workers have raised concerns that drug use is a growing problem on UK construction sites.
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Features
The drug problem
To all the dangers present on a construction site you can now add accidents caused by cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine
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Features
Who's driving what?
We continue our series on what construction can learn from the motor industry
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Comment
The dispute machine
So you think the Construction Act is reducing the number of disputes in the industry? Wrong. It has made going to court more popular than ever before
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Contractors ignore internet revolution
Contractors are failing to embrace the e-commerce revolution, according to two surveys released this week.
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Comment
Clobbered from the start
Design-and-build contractors be warned. There is a clause that can make you responsible for mistakes that happened before you even signed the contract
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Sleek and cheerful
Stanhope's Chiswick Park office development is light on colourful Richard Rogers touches and strong on refinement, parkland, barbecues and treasure hunts