All Building articles in 2001 issue 38 – Page 2
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Features
Dear Robert
More of your careers problems solved by Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose. This month, QS career options and help for those in need
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Comment
Hard day's night
Peter Cornell and Justin Williams give a glimpse of the hard slog of real-life mediation. Who's for coffee?
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News
'In the dark, the sight is unreal and eerie'
Phil Clark reports from the scene of devastation, where rescue work is being carried out around the clock.
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Features
Learning curves
Tom Barker Curved design is sexy design. Unfortunately, it's so pricey that it may also be doomed design. Now, a new idea from a young engineer may change all that …
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Features
Court order
PFI prisons are considered a success story, and perhaps courthouses too, but police stations often fail to do justice to their purpose. Martin Building examines the government's spending plans for law and order
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Comment
Survival course
As if she hadn't come under enough fire, Zara Lamont braved four days with the army to find out what it could teach construction about getting on in a rough world
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News
Contracts
Birse picked for 'superstadium'Birse Group has been picked to build a £43.5m "superstadium" in Hull. Hull council picked Birse from a shortlist that included Ballast, Mowlem and Taylor Woodrow.Work to start on TrafalgarFitzpatrick has won a pre-construction works contract to pedestrianise Trafalgar Square for client Transport for London. Ballast nabs ...
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News
Construction prospects 'strong in the long term'
City analysts say stock market uncertainty will be outweighed by healthy order books.
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News
Industry in front line of rescue and clean-up effort
Amec, Bovis Lend Lease, WSP and Skanska among companies that volunteered to look for survivors.
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News
Technical Special: Cladding
We visit the innovative GLA building, marvel at the bronze skin of a 152 ft high Buddha, discover a system that could revolutionise bricklaying, tell you what went into the multicoloured facade of Greenwich’s Millennium Village
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News
White Young Green buys Irish engineer
Multidisciplinary consultant White Young Green has strengthened its Irish business with the purchase of Dublin-based MCD Consult.It is the fourth Irish firm to be bought by White Young Green in the last 18 months. The deal is for up to £1.3m – made up of about £1m cash and 236,473 ...
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News
Curzon buys facilities manager Granby
Curzon Holdings, the owner of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman, has bought facilities management company TCL Granby.
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Features
Bronzed god
The team building the world's largest statue found designing the cladding a particular challenge. Still, nothing that creating a virtual computer model, building a bespoke foundry and predicting the weather in a thousand years' time couldn't overcome.
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News
British firms sit tight in Middle East
British companies with operations in the Middle East and Asia are monitoring events after the terrorist attacks on the USA, but there are no large-scale evacuations planned.
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Features
The brick revolution
A brick system that triples the speed of wall construction and does away with the need for a skilled bricklayer, saving both time and money? It could shake the industry to its foundations.
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Features
Meet the new boss
… and the one thing you can say about the supermarket magnates and aerospace high flyers coming in to shake up construction is that they're not the same as the old boss. But are they any better?
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News
Renewal body to set up 'mini-RDAs'
The East Midlands Development Agency is working on plans to establish a series of "mini-regional development agencies" across the region. The sub-agencies will attempt to translate the action plans and overall economic strategy of EMDA into delivery. EMDA is to make the move after its board decided that sub-regions in ...
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Comment
Dinky is the new big
A new short form of subcontract is so small a plasterer will be able to keep it in his back pocket – and it's so simple, there's even a chance he'll understand it
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News
How the operation is being organised
The first salvage workers began sifting through the rubble within five hours of the collapse of the World Trade Centre. What began as a search and rescue operation has grown into a mammoth clean-up effort involving the emergency services, the New York authorities and contractors including Amec and Bovis Lend ...
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Brand expert becomes MDA head
Top 15 quantity surveyor MDA has appointed a branding and marketing expert as its new chief executive.
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