All Building articles in 2004 issue 41 – Page 2
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FeaturesTerror and wonder
… was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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NewsSpitalfields for shopaholics
The Spitalfields Development Group, a joint venture between developer Hammerson and the Corporation of London, is signing up occupiers for 21 shops to complement its east London office scheme. The 4200 m2 of retail space is part of a Foster and Partners design, and includes a two-storey pavilion at the ...
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CommentSeduced by simplicity
Last week Ashley Pigott used the Holyrood fiasco to take a pop at construction management – but easy targets don’t help us understand complex problems
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Comment
Rouse … to Simmons
Succession is a tricky proposition, especially when your predecessor has made the job his own. Witness the plight of Jonny Wilkinson, the wunderkind of English rugby, who has been handed the captaincy of his national side last week after an eight-month injury. He has the small challenge of getting the ...
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign – and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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FeaturesSpecialists: Piling
Our series on specialist markets continues, this time with analysis of the piling sector’s lead times and costs from Gary Bibby of Gardiner & Theobald. Plus, Robin Wood of Cementation Foundations Skanska talks about the latest trends in the piling market
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Comment
Unfair penalty
NSV carried out work on the instructions of Consafe on heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment at a plutonium chemical waste plant at Drigg, in Cumberia. Consafe counter-claimed for liquidated damages. NSV said that liquidated damages could not be levied because they were a penalty. As the judge said, if the ...
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FeaturesThe new master
One of the many problems besetting the government’s plan to refurbish or replace every secondary school in Britain has been that nobody was permanently in charge of it. Now that that’s about to change, can we expect the work to start flowing?
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News
Wilson to work magic in Lancashire
The trendsetter behind the rebranding of Manchester has been called on to revamp the image of east Lancashire.
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Knowles’ overseas trip
Construction consultant James R Knowles has blamed a weak set of annual results on poor trading in Australia, Hong Kong and the USA.
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Comment
One-eyed jock
Lord Fraser’s report on Holyrood appears to me to be one-eyed, ignoring as it does the plight of the trade contractors involved. The building may well have cost its owners – the taxpayers – £431m but I surmise the cost to its builders, trade contractors and the professional team is ...
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CommentIsn’t it obvious?
You may not be entirely surprised to learn that when it comes to construction law the most obvious meaning of a word isn’t necessarily the right one. Context is all
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NewsKlein to help write Tory manifesto
The Conservative party has called in Rudi Klein, a barrister specialising in subcontractors’ rights and a regular Building columnist, to draft a construction policy for its election manifesto.
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Comment
Gone with the wind
The objections to on-shore wind farm schemes (24 September, page 70) are classic nimbyism. Would the objectors prefer a nuclear power station on the green fields? At least with wind farms, when they are removed you wouldn’t know they had even been there.
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Jarvis sells off four PFI school schemes to Vinci
Beleaguered support services group Jarvis has agreed to sell four PFI schemes worth £176.5m to French company Vinci.
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The Guangzhou eye
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership has unveiled images of its entry for a major competition in Guangzhou, China. Practices have been invited to design a Sightseeing/Television Tower. RRP’s design is 475 m tall and lies on the southern bank of the Pearl River, while two 350 m towers lie on the ...
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More towers for Docklands
Architect Squire and Partners has designed a 40-storey tower for London’s Docklands in a scheme set to confirm the Isle of Dogs as a mini-Manhattan.
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