All Building articles in 2003 issue 32 – Page 2
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FeaturesCapsule hotels: Hotels in a nutshell
The man that got us eating raw fish off a conveyor belt is trying to sell us a night in a prefab sardine tin. But how will Europeans cope with Japanese-style capsule hotels?
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RICS: Too broad a church?
New RICS chairman Nick Brooke wants to go global but many QSs are reluctant to fund the move.
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FeaturesThe best possible taste
Fancy a home in Dubai built in the Arab eclectic style on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree? For a mere £500,000? Well, the Beckhams do – and we know what connoisseurs they are …
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NewsLife’s a beach
This £100m residential project is under way at Carlyon Bay, in Cornwall. The 500 glass-fronted holiday homes and leisure and retail facilities together make up the largest privately funded development in the county. The developer is the Ampersand Group and the design is by Evans & Shalev, the practice behind ...
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Dutch parachute into Barking
Dutch architect Maxwan has been appointed to draw up a masterplan to salvage a regeneration project at Barking Reach in Dagenham, east London
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Morgan Sindall building arm gets back into black
Morgan Sindall's construction division is back in the black after a disastrous performance last year.
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NewsBerkeley's London boss argues himself out of a job
Managing director of London office resigns after completing a business review to simplify the group.
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Cedric Price, architect and thinker, dies at 70
Cedric Price, one of Britain's most provocative and inspirational architectural thinkers of the past half century, has died aged 70.
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NewsSuicide cult targets lonely workers at Heathrow T5
Members of the Church of Euthanasia sell bleak message to vulnerable workers living away from home.
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Unions fight to extend T5 pay deal to subcontractors
Contractor Laing O'Rourke is being pressured to give key subcontractors the same terms as T5 core workers.
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Duke sued over 300 mm 'trespass'
A company owned by the Duke of Westminster is at the centre of a High Court dispute over a 300 mm strip of land at a central London office redevelopment
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Rok profit doubles to £3.4m
Exeter contractor Rok Property Solutions made a pre-tax profit of £3.4m for the six months to 30 June, an increase of 94% on the same period last year.
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Cost update: August 2003
We make our quarterly inspection of inflation in the industry, and find that it's chugging along at the 1-2% mark – but there is a 23% wage rise for craftsmen in the pipeline and the cost of some works packages are rising rapidly. Hot Rates focuses on claddings and coverings
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Balfour Beatty forks out £11m for pension fund
Contractor Balfour Beatty is to contribute an extra £11m to its pension fund this year to avoid future deficits.
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NewsRogers and Grimshaw profits fall in wake of 9/11
'Brand' architects with international exposure have suffered more from economic jitters than rivals in UK market.
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NewsCrossrail picks design dozen for £10bn scheme
Crossrail has confirmed a line-up of 12 architects to update stations and routes on the £10bn London project.Six practices working on station designs.They are: Hawkins/Brown at Tottenham Court RoadJohn McAslan + Partners at PaddingtonTony Meadows Associates at Bond StreetIan Ritchie Architects, at the Isle of DogsWilkinson Eyre at ...
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Berkeley issues £1.3m writ over Gosport sea wall
Housebuilder Berkeley Homes is suing civil engineer Leslie Wilks Associates for £1.3m in a row over its Gosport Marina project in Hampshire.
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