All Building articles in 2003 issue 34 – Page 2
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Features
Nice and easy does it
In this month's market snapshot, Experian Business Strategies reports that activity will continue to grow gently until October – apart from civil engineering, which is experiencing a full-scale boom
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FeaturesWe have a dream …
Can new libraries really transform rundown cities, knit communities together and persuade young people of all races and classes to play and learn together? CABE's latest research says yes – and where better to test the theory than in race-riot-blighted Oldham?
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FeaturesTowers of doom
Strange but true: countries that build the world's tallest building shortly afterwards suffer an economic catastrophe. Matthew Richards examines the link between skyscraper booms and economic bust – with special reference to the USA, Dubai, China and Taiwan
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Comment
Correction
In the article “US guru to upgrade UK hospital design” (11 July, page 10), I was misquoted. I did not say there was “a bespoke list of architects suitable for work in the healthcare sector”. No such list has been drafted. NHS Estates asked the RIBA how a bespoke list ...
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Comment
Plenty of converts to preach to
The Construction Industry Training Board's recruitment drive aimed at 14- to 19-year-olds is welcome news for an industry suffering from a chronic lack of entrants and skilled candidates. However, there has been a notable failure to mention the channels the CITB intends to use – agencies and intermediary companies. The ...
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News
Contacts
Kellogg lands MoD dealKellogg Brown & Root has been picked by the Ministry of Defence as preferred bidder for the contract to provide support services to the British armed forces. Banner rushed to hospitalBanner Holdings has been awarded a £7.1m contract by Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust to build a ...
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NewsLife in the Clink
Edward Cullinan Architects has won planning permission for a six-storey residential scheme that will open up views of the rose window of the 11th-century Winchester Palace in Clink Street, south London. The western end of the historic church ruin, once the palace of the bishop of Southwark, is currently obscured ...
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Comment
A case for the SFA
Does empty space always cry out to be filled? Not when what you're filling it with looks like Berkeley Homes' Potters Fields project, it doesn't
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FeaturesFellowship of the bullring
Or, how three developers, one city council and a handful of architects transformed a reviled 1960s concrete lump into the apotheosis of cool design. Martin Spring tells the story.
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NewsBritish firms win one-fifth of Iraq subcontracts
Former construction minister Brian Wilson says reconstruction effort is key to making country more secure.
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NewsBomb hunt at Wembley
Police called in to inspect stadium pipework for explosives before the foundations are sealed.
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NewsGehry says first UK project is better than Guggenheim
Maggie's Dundee cancer therapy centre packs punch of Bilbao into building the size of a large bungalow.
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NewsPaint to blame for latest Bath Spa delay
IT WAS CONFIRMED this week that a defective paint finish is the cause of the latest delay to the £23m Bath Spa project. The problem affects all four pool basins in the troubled Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners scheme.
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News
Teams vie for asylum centre
Interserve and Skanska are leading rival consortiums in a race to win the contract for a controversial £80m asylum centre in Oxfordshire.
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Comment
Take the alternative
The claimant was a landlord seeking to determine whether or not notices served by the tenant to terminate a lease were valid. At trial, the tenant's first notice was held to validly terminate the lease, except in respect of an area known as the store room. The tenant therefore argued ...
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Comment
Don't bet against the sheikh
As a former expat, I found the feature on Dubai (8 August, page 34) very interesting. However, it was obvious from your leader column (page 3) that Building thinks the emirate's economic boom may be quickly followed by bust. This reminded me of one of many site office debates 20 ...
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News
Keller axes 80 jobs in two months
Construction services group Keller has made 80 redundancies in its UK businesses since June.
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News
Mouchel tipped to win £500m Tube deal
Support services group Mouchel and French telecoms giant Alcatel are set to win a £500m signalling contract on London Underground – the biggest single project planned by the Tube Lines consortium.
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News
Bennetts wins contest for £50m research facility
Architect Bennetts Associates has beaten off competition from Foster and Partners, Building Design Partnership and RMJM Architects, to be preferred bidder for a research facility at the University of Edinburgh.
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NewsMouchel Parkman targets FTSE 350
The support services group created by last week's merger between Mouchel and Parkman has set itself the goal of becoming a FTSE 350 company within 12 months.
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