All Building articles in 2004 issue 23 – Page 2
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NewsCostain sets up overseas firms
Contractor Costain is to set up businesses with its two major overseas shareholders, Al-Kharafi of Kuwait and United Engineers of Malaysia
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Firms face insurance cost hike
Concerns have been raised that contractors will face higher administrative overheads when an insurance directive policed by the Financial Services Authority is introduced next month
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FeaturesCost model: Football stadiums
Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential
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Consortiums vie for key worker housing
English Partnerships has drawn up a shortlist of five consortiums for the London Wide Initiative, the government's drive to increase key worker housing in the capital.
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Comment
Shadowing the CIS
Many of the industry's concerns over the Construction Industry Scheme have been recognised by proposals in the Finance Bill, welcomed by the Conservative Party. But the details are still in draft, and this is an opportunity chance to make sure the scheme works. I would be interested to hear from ...
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NewsCABE plumps for chief with regeneration expertise
CABE chairman announces 'new chapter' as Medway council official Richard Simmons is appointed chief executive
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London QS launches bullish growth drive
Quantity surveyor Bruce Shaw London aims to double the size and turnover of its business within five years.
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FeaturesBuilding in two dimensions
This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII
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NewsBroker's notes: Scoring points in the City
Why, hello there, dear reader. As Euro 2004 is upon us, I have decided that a football theme is in order this week.
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HSE inspectors commence safety blitz on sites
The Health and Safety Executive has launched a blitz on sites this month as part of a Europe-wide initiative to reduce the number of fatalities and serious injuries.
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FeaturesThe bigger picture: how eastern european workers
European enlargement has made a huge pool of highly skilled and low paid workers available to British firms, and it has opened the British market to highly skilled and low cost contractors, too. We report on the likely impact of this momentous development
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RICS boss unveils vision of a better future
RICS President Nick Brooke this week published the Brooke Report, setting out his proposals to remodel the organisation.
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CommentThe nature of the beast
It may surprise you to learn that lawyers and academics are still not entirely sure what an adjudicator is, what they can do, and what they are like
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NewsHome on the Baltic waves
Architect Staffan Strindberg has designed a three-storey houseboat off the coast of Sweden. He plans to market the idea so that more customised structures can be built along the coast. The houseboats are not designed to move.
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Babcock takeover team cries foul in Peterhouse sale
Advisers to group trying to buy Peterhouse accuse its chairman, David Jackson, of influencing shareholders
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Gammon sale may exclude Skanska from Asian market
Skanska, the world's third largest contractor, may be prevented from competing in several lucrative Asian markets as a result of the sale of its 50% stake in Hong Kong-based contractor Gammon.
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CommentThe guests are arriving
Isn’t the point of the European Union’s single market to increase the flows of goods, services, capital and labour, and thereby increase economic efficiency?
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NewsAustralian engineer SKM takes over Anthony Hunt
Sinclair Knight Merz expands UK operations with purchase of engineer that built Waterloo International Terminal
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Comment
Against the system
I am greatly concerned by the increase in the "contributions" required from applicants for planning permission.
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Comment
Adult affairs
Clarissa de Waal highlighted a number of points about adult training (Letters, 21 May, page 40) that the CITB is addressing.
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