All Building articles in 2004 issue 03 – Page 2
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CommentShadows and doubt
An adjudicator's decision can be thrown out over the merest hint of unfairness. Good news for the system's integrity, bad news for parties left in limbo
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Site death prompts Wembley safety probe
Wembley stadium contractor Multiplex is carrying out a safety review of the project after a man died on Thursday and another was seriously injured when a crane collapsed on the site.
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Darling to name leader of railways review
Transport secretary Alistair Darling is to announce who will lead the government's review of the railways in a Commons statement next week.
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David Curry
The chronic housing shortage has spurred Whitehall into commissioning a host of well meaning reports, but the tricky policy decisions may take a good while longer to emerge
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NewsCostain in talks with Kurds over Iraq reconstruction
Senior management team flies out to northern Iraq for third time since fall of Saddam Hussein last May
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Consultants plan growth spurts
Construction consultants AYH and Gleeds have drawn up plans to expand their businesses
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Healthy competition
I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.
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NewsHealthy competition
A Balfour Beatty-led consortium has beaten off a Bovis Lend Lease team to win preferred bidder status on a £521m hospital PFI in Birmingham.The 35-year deal, for the University Hospital Birmingham Trust and the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust, is due to reach financial close in March 2005. The ...
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Firms eye up collapsed Glasgow contractor
The administrator of failed contractor Lilley Construction has been approached by several interested buyers, following the firm's collapse last week.
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C'mon everybody
Here are 10 steps to making the world a better place to do business in – and all can be adopted without converting to Buddhism, becoming celibate or giving up alcohol
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NewsMinisters to headline at client convention
Senior ministers Paul Boateng and Nigel Griffiths are heading a top-level line-up of speakers at Building's first Construction Client Convention on 3 February.
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Feeling the winter chill
The first Tracker of the year from Experian Business Strategies forecasts that construction growth will cool off over the next three months, but offers a sunnier outlook for 2004 as a whole
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Research exposes shortfall in off-site housing capacity
The Off-site manufacturing industry has the capacity to produce 30,000 homes a year, far short of the figure needed to meet official expectations.
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Shuttleworth launches modest brand name
Former Foster and Partners right-hand man Ken Shuttleworth has unveiled the name of the firm he has set up. The man credited with the initial designs for Swiss Re and the GLA building will now practise under the name Make.
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NewsHochtief snaps up ex-Ballast boss to lead PFI charge in UK
Phillip Cooper is expected to bring in former employees of Ballast Services, PFI arm of the failed contractor
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NewsBooked up
Architect Shepheard Epstein Hunter has designed a £15m extension to the grade II-listed library at East Anglia University, Norwich. Contractor Kier Eastern will start construction next month on the first 2000 m2 phase. The extension will match Sir Denys Lasdun's original 1968 building in its six-storey height. Mace is ...
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I've put the bomb there
If a project manager supervises the installation of a fire risk, then warns its client that it has installed a fire risk, does the warning absolve it of blame after the inevitable fire?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier
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NewsWates hunts for fresh blood as Robertson bows out
Chairman to fill in while firm headhunts a successor to chief executive Struan Robertson
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FeaturesBasque in glory
Eduardo Arroyo was determined to give his countrymen a football stadium that reinforced their Basque identity. The result, as Justin McGuirk found out, is a building that welds the region's steel-producing past to its hope of a cleaner, greener future.
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