All Building articles in 2003 issue 42 – Page 2
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CommentCruel and usual treatment
You contractors get stroppy when your subbies fail to deliver, but the culprit is often the dodgy, lazy, time-honoured ways of the good old British building industry
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News
Halcrow wins two major design contracts in Qatar
British multidisciplinary consultant beats off international competition to take projects worth £210m.
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Rogers sails through Southampton contest
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership has beaten off rivals to win the masterplan for the Woolston Shipyard site in Southampton.
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FeaturesConfusion reigns
In the first of a monthly series of articles on urban regeneration, we look at the mess that the government has made of its part of the process, and suggests how it might start to clear it up.
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Comment
Fit for a comedy sketch
With reference to Roger Knowles' letter (10 October, page 36) and the rather tired debate over the RICS, may I point out that architects, engineers and solicitors all have their own specialisms yet remain quite content to practise under the generic banner of their profession.
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Comment
Hearing you loud and clear
I read your news item about housebuilders being spared the need to test their houses for adequacy of sound resistance (29 August, page 13) and thought, what a shame.
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CITB plans virtual training companies
The Construction Industry Training Board is in talks with the government to create "virtual training firms" that would give young people the chance to work on live construction projects.
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Comment
Check the expiry
Tesco was understandably peeved when one of its superstores burned down, and it wanted cash back. But was the claim past its sell-by date?
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Former Capita man launches consultancy
Former Capita Property Consultancy regional boss Andrew Harnett has formed a building surveying and project management consultancy.
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NewsVenables signs Scott Brownrigg
Former England football manager Terry Venables has signed up architect Scott Brownrigg to design a Spanish leisure resort valued in the region of £50m
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NewsBroker's notes: When Kajima tripped up
Let's forget share prices for a mo' – wasn't the rugger marvellous?
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NewsProfit dips at Feilden Clegg Bradley
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley has disclosed a fall in its annual profit after withdrawing from a contract in central London
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CommentWonders & blunders
I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head
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Features
Winter bites
In this month's market overview, Experian Business Strategies reports that levels of growth will fall by December, followed by a further slowdown next year – except in the booming housing sector
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Comment
Show a bit of initiative
I was encouraged by the story "Clarke: Skills council will end need for foreign workers" (3 October, page 13).
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Skill bill: Government in talks over site training centres
In the fight to halt the partly self-inflicted skills crisis, the CITB’s latest scheme is project-based training centres. But is it all too little, too late?
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Met office launches bespoke forecasts
The Met office has launched a weather forecasting service tailored to the needs of the construction industry.
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NewsBorn in Belfast
Architect Watkins Gray International, in association with Todd Architects, is working on designs for operating theatres, laboratories and a £30m maternity unit at the Ulster hospital, Belfast. The design will be complete in August next year. It is estimated that construction will take 15 months. The QS for the project ...
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Mott MacDonald enters the Beijing Olympics
Firm creates first-ever joint venture between Chinese and western multidisciplinary consultants.
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Comment
Bye-bye, Bambi
The Be Collaborative contract is another adorable newborn legal fawn taking its first unsteady steps towards the combine harvester of the construction industry
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