All Building articles in 2003 issue 47 – Page 2
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NewsRay O'Rourke sets out vision for world domination
Chief executive puts Terminal 5 workers at front line of plans to change face of construction industry.
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GMB starts property sell-off to cut debts
The heavily indebted GMB union is in talks over the sale of its headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London, as part of a wider property review
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Comment
Legalised coupling
As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.
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Comment
Full marks for construction training
As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).
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CommentLessons in civility
Construction is an altogether more complex process than it used to be – and this raises tricky questions about how firms should treat each other
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NewsUrban design codes to be used on five city sites
£100m English Cities Fund will use 'community coding' to help drive government's regeneration agenda.
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Features
A change of pace
In this month's market round-up, we report that growth is likely to slow down over the next three months – but don't worry, it should pick up in a couple of years or so …
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NewsCapital Project Consultancy loses Lion Plaza role
Firm's position as construction manager is 'rescinded' at £230m City of London development.
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CABE rounds on 'dreadful' PFI hospitals
CABE has published a report attacking the standard of architecture in PFI hospitals and has picked four teams to formulate the principles that should be applied to future schemes.
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Comment
Broken homes
I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.
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CommentWonders & blunders
I take a dim view of 5000-year-old project management, but look kindly on a 21st-century model of good practice
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NewsThe big cover up
This crowd-pleasing glass roof is the centrepiece of BPR Architects' design for an extension to a Middlesex University building. The £6.5m development in Hendon, north London, will enclose an underused courtyard and provide an atrium for the main reception. BRP design has just received planning permission.
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NewsBeauty spot
Architect RMJM has been appointed to design and engineer three projects at Newcastle College worth £16m, including this £8.8m "beauty, sport and tourism" building. The practice will also renovate and extend the college's 1960s concert hall and the 19th-century Rye Hill House. The £18m Performance Academy is under construction ...
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NewsFoster wins Hastings battle
Foster and Partners has been chosen by the Hastings and Bexhill Taskforce to draw up designs for a showcase development at Pelham Square in Hastings, East Sussex. The £50m scheme will have offices and a hotel in a commercial development centred around the large civic space in the square. ...
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Comment
Payment barrier
The claimant, Dean & Dyball, had retained the defendant consulting engineers to design an impounding gate across the entrance of a marina. The defendant designed a gate that was manufactured and installed in the entrance to the marina, but that never worked properly. The claimant brought a claim for breach ...
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NewsBenson Group gets back in black
Benson Group expects a rise in turnover to bring it back into the black after a £700,000 loss in 2002
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NewsIraqi architect to do home work
An Iraqi architect in London has formed a loose alliance with UK consultants to pitch for reconstruction work in his homeland
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Prescott gives go-ahead to animal lab
Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week granted planning permission for a vivisection laboratory in Cambridge, overruling advice from an inspector.
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NewsShuttleworth quits Foster to go it alone
Ken Shuttleworth, the man behind the designs of the Swiss Re tower and the Greater London Authority's City Hall, is leaving Foster and Partners after 29 years
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