All Building articles in 2001 issue 39 – Page 2
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News
NHS Estates to pay more for better hospitals
The cost of new hospitals is set to rise in order to encourage better design.
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Features
Benedetta Tagliabue
The widow of Scottish parliament architect Enric Miralles talks to Building about her husband's death and taking over the reins of his most controversial project.
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'We have the technology. It could have been prevented'
Like the rest of us, I am sitting watching as the West prepares to go to war against terrorism. It would seem as if, with the technology we have, we cannot lose, and yet that very symbol of our potency, the towers themselves, were fallible, and so I suspect is ...
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Bullish Barratt shuns merger mania
Housebuilder Barratt's profit has risen by almost a quarter over the past year, allowing it to shrug off fears of an economic downturn.Barratt, best known for volume building and its house exchange policy, said it was not interested in the consolidation going on elsewhere in the sector. Seven of the ...
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Features
How to do a bank job
Housebuilders must work hard to get money off bankers these days. This is the way to do it
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RIBA attacks assembly sacking
The sacking of Partnership from the Welsh assembly project has been condemned as a "stupid decision" by Paul Hyett, president of the RIBA.
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Black architects wanted for Ghana masterplan
THE Ghanaian government has invited architectural practices from the Society of Black Architects in Britain to submit a masterplan for the £300m development of the country's capital, Accra.
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Features
Appointments
ContractorsDeena Mattar (right) as been appointed to the board of Kier Group. She takes over from Duncan Brand, finance director, who retires in November.HousebuildersAlec Luhaste has joined Bryant Homes as human resources director. ClientsBrad Soller has been appointed global chief financial officer at international real estate solutions firm Bovis Lend ...
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Vinci pulls out of hostile airport takeover
French construction firm Vinci has dropped plans for a hostile takeover of UK airport owner and operator TBI.The decision had been expected after the terrorist attacks in America, which have damaged prospects for the industry.Vinci announced on Monday that its offer to buy TBI, for £517m had lapsed. The company ...
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Features
Getting ahead
Graham Jackson of headhunter Potensis reveals what employers are really looking for and how you can use this to get to the top
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Confederation campaigns against EU threat to PFI
European director of Construction Confederation says proposed EU directive would limit PFI competition.
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Features
Aftershocks
Building examines the economic fallout from the US attacks. Airport projects in doubt, New hotels on hold, Share prices tumble
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Bug aesthetics
Alsop Architects' design for Queen Mary University's medical and dental school in East London takes its cue from things you can see through a microscope. And aren't they lovely?
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Features
Five facts about sports sponsorship
Which construction firms sponsor sport?Housebuilder Berkeley Group backed a Lord's Taverners celebrity cricket match, and contractor Bovis Lend Lease will sponsor part of golf's European Seniors Tour. Regional contractor Cowlin Construction has sponsored second division football club Bristol Rovers for three years.What does it cost?Cowlin Construction paid "in excess of ...
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Comment
Cometh the hour …
If Iain Duncan Smith's election was remarkable, so are the global and national challenges he'll have to face. And he might just be the man for the job
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£8bn pricetag on new World Trade Centre
The cost of rebuilding the World Trade Centre could be up to £8bn, according to calculations by consultant Hanscomb.The firm's New York office produced the figure for the Congressional Budget Office, the US government's economic unit. This figure, which the consultant described as "very conceptual", does not include replacing surrounding ...
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Gruesome £685m clean-up set to last a year
Contractors and engineers pull together in Manhattan recovery operation on a site likened to Chernobyl.
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BAA's £600m budget expected to be halved
Commitment to Terminal 5 reaffirmed but upgrades at Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick could be shelved.
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More big names in race for £55m courts job
further big name architects have been revealed as being on the 12-strong longlist to design the UK's biggest judicial project since 1870 (page 14, 14 September). Richard Rogers Partnership, Denton Corker Marshall, Rafael Vinoly and Kohn Pedersen Fox are among the heavyweight practices longlisted, alongside Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw ...
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