All Building articles in 2004 issue 39 – Page 3

  • Disaster site: The collapse of steel-reinforced buttress wall
    News

    Laing O’Rourke staff to lose bonuses over Dubai tragedy

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Five dead and 23 injured at Dubai airport site, forcing contractor to review staff rewards on safety performance

  • Transformed
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Can London’s newest skyscraper be both a wonder and a blunder? Academic James Woudhuysen has it both ways

  • News

    Sharewatch: Countryside blues

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Just when we thought we’d had all the bad news from Countryside Properties, last Thursday the company issued its second profit warning in five months

  • Blob on the Tyne
    Features

    Blob on the Tyne

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Foster’s Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map

  • News

    Kevin Hyde quits as boss of beleaguered Jarvis

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Kevin Hyde, chief executive of Jarvis, quit the troubled company on Tuesday.

  • News

    Grimshaw ducks blame in Bath Spa row

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    In latest in a spate of disasters, architect gets steamed up over who is responsible for waterproofing problems

  • Comment

    Cover your back

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Under the German civil code, contractors and clients can protect themselves against risk in several ways, but each one must be approached with caution

  • Comment

    Back issues

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Reading lamps, circular saws and finding work for nice middle-class girls …

  • Features

    Ask Edward

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion

  • News

    Flood risk could scupper Ashford housing scheme

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Environment Agency’s policy of discouraging building on flood plains threatens high-density growth area

  • News

    Disability law could curb ‘pure architecture’

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architects may be forced to abandon fashionable “pure architecture” in order to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, an industry expert has warned.

  • News

    Architects must satisfy safety demands to win contracts

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Prequalification documents will increase burden on architects to ensure safety standards at design stage

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • News

    All change in Chengdu

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Multidisciplinary consultant Atkins has won an international competition to design a mixed-use development in the central Chinese city of Chengdu.

  • Tony Blackler
    Comment

    Agreement on principles

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The first rule in law school is that an agreement to agree is not a contract. The second rule in law school should be that all rules have their exceptions

  • News

    ActionForSkills

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    In our fourth article with the CITB, why poor business skills are letting the industry down and what can be done

  • News

    Industry leaders accuse Whitehall of failing to invest

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Construction Confederation boss attacks delays in public spending programmes as minister makes a sharp exit

  • Workers construct the steel reinforcement
    News

    Spotlight falls on role of crane in fatal accident

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Reports from Dubai indicate that crane lost control and caused critical damage to wall reinforcement

  • Monsters Inc
    Features

    Top 200 Consultants 2004: Monsters, Inc

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    This year’s consultants league table ranks the 200 biggest, scariest practices in the UK – and then breaks them down into bite-sized top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors charts. So who are the Godzillas and the Godzukis of the industry this year? We report from under his desk, Tables compiled ...

  • News

    WYG profit leaps 20% after shopping spree

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Support services group White Young Green was hot on the acquisition trail in the second half of the year to 30 June 2004 – and drove pre-tax profit up 20% to £6.9m in the process.