All Building articles in 2004 issue 05 – Page 2
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NewsHousing Forum names firms with unhappiest customers
Barratt, Rialto, David McLean and North Country are the poorest performers in buyer satisfaction survey
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Comment
Credit where it's due
We were delighted to see two of our bridge projects, Thames Gateway Bridge and Wembley Bridge, were given coverage (16 February, pages 13 and 15). We would be even more delighted if Halcrow, the engineer that we are working with, was also given credit – particularly as it ...
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NewsMultiplex warned 'safety is a serious concern with PCH'
Directors were told of worries over concrete contractor PC Harrington before fatal accident on Wembley site
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Spring is coming to the office market
As demand for office space increases for the first time in nearly three years, we examine the significance for the hibernating commercial sector. In particular, when will it translate into new buildings?
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Comment
C'mon Rudi
Two points arising from Rudi Klein's wishlist ("C'mon everybody", 23 January, page 49).
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RICS faces legal challenge over refusal to hold EGM
Rebel QS Jeremy Hackett says he has already received pledges of £10,000 towards £20,000 cost of legal advice
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Comment
A Cambridge correction
With regard to your news story on page 13 of your 30 January issue, "Sir Robert McAlpine in row over £21m Cambridge Lab", there was an adjudication in early 2003 between the University of Cambridge and Sir Robert McAlpine relating to delays to the project, which was settled at the ...
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FeaturesThe buyers
Welcome to Building’s first ever table of construction’s 100 most powerful clients. Over the next eight pages we measure their worth by sector, region, project and reputation. Andy Pearson mingles with the people who push the buttons, Camargue and Glenigan provide the ammunition
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Overseas firm tipped to buy Peterhouse
City experts have used a process of elimination to conclude that the mystery bidder for infrastructure group Peterhouse is from overseas
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The lonely life of the builder
There is, I think, no simple answer as to why construction workers are more likely than others to take their own lives (16 January, page 11). It seems this is not just a UK problem – it may be a universal one in this industry.
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Scots parliament inquiry told of meeting with Bovis boss
Former Bovis Lend Lease boss John Anderson met Scottish Office chief architect just weeks before Bovis was awarded the construction management role on the Scottish parliament, it emerged at the Fraser inquiry this week.
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Comment
New rules for the blame game
Remember the architect who got blamed for a fire because he specified the wrong panels? The Court of Appeal has just poured cold water over that decision
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Features
Tender price forecast: London lags behind
London’s office developers are in hibernation and are likely to remain so for at least another year. This is dampening inflation in the capital – but in other areas, such as Wales and north-west England, the market is booming and costs are rising. Davis Langdon & Everest presents the big ...
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What might have been
If you feel you've lost out on a chance in life through somebody else's fault, you can go to court and watch the judge put a cash figure on it
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FeaturesBeginning of a beautiful friendship?
What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence
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NewsGriffiths fails to get Bath Spa out of hot water
Minister's attempt to mediate between client, contractor and architect ends in yet more acrimony
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Marks Barfield has Eye on international market
Architect Marks Barfield, the designer that shot to fame with the London Eye, is working on a cheaper variant that could be sold across the world.
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NewsDrug-inspired architecture
The £3.6m Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation at the University of Bradford has been opened by Lord Sainsbury. The research faculty, which was designed by Yorkshire architect Rance Booth & Smith, is arranged in two linear wings joined by an atrium.
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