All Building articles in 2005 issue 02 – Page 2
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CommentLiving with The Others
Hovering above the real people doing real jobs on real site is a vast ghostly world of contract documents and legal obligations. How should the two interact?
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FeaturesJust the job
JM Erasmus explains why he left South Africa and accountancy for a life of cost management in London
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NewsUK in talks with Indonesia over tsunami reconstruction
Leading industry figures to meet president of devastated country as rebuilding process gets under way
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Housing groups plan merger
Midlands social housing groups Keynote and Prime Focus are in talks about merging to create a single group with assets valued at almost £1bn.
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Four picked for Stansted redevelopment
Airport operator BAA has selected four consultants to join the project team for its redevelopment of Stansted airport, known as Stansted Generation 2.
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Multiplex set to float in UK
Multiplex, the Australian contractor and developer, is considering a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange to boost its presence in the UK.
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Galliford Try set fair to make
Contractor Galliford Try is on course to make a record half-year profit when it announces its interim results in February.
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London office rents most expensive in world
London’s West End is the most expensive office location in the world, according to a report published by property services firm DTZ.
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News‘I have no idea what to expect’
Arup civil engineer Anthony Peter, 26, was among the first British specialists to be sent to Sri Lanka to help with the reconstruction. Here, in the first part of a diary for Building, he recounts his initial experiences
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CommentEvolutionary politics
Thumping great overspend though it was, Holyrood could help the government turn its current survival-of-the-fittest approach into a best-practice blueprint
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FeaturesGet ’em young…
These construction trainees are the future of the industry, and if government plans are realised, thousands more will soon be trained all over the country. All the construction industry has to do is get its act together and organise a nationwide programme. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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Sustainability is keynote in plan for higher education
The body responsible for making grants to universities and colleges has called on the higher education sector to take a lead in encouraging sustainable development.
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NewsDTI looks for firm to end National Physical Lab fiasco
Three years after it was due to be handed over, DTI takes over disastrous PFI project and puts it out to tender
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NewsZaha comes home
London is to get its first Zaha Hadid building after her firm beat Foreign Office Architects and Dutch practice MVRDV in the competition to design a home for the Architecture Centre.
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Come on, Colin
Colin Harding’s jaundiced and outdated view of the modern UK construction industry ignores the tremendous progress made in productivity, innovation and profitability over the past 10 years (17 December, page 21).
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NewsKey NHS client voices doubts over ‘rigid’ PFI
The £422m, 35-year University College London Hospital contract will have to be renegotiated within 10 years, according the project’s client. The admission puts a question mark over the use of the PFI in health projects in its present form
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FeaturesSo I changed my mind …
Peter Dixon is the man in charge of a £422m PFI hospital in London. He has also written in a national newspaper that hospital PFIs have been a ‘costly failure’. We invite him to explain himself – after which we get a second opinion from a woman with very definite ...
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Bovis Homes predicts healthy pre-tax profit
Housebuilder Bovis Homes Group said this week that it remained on course to make a record pre-tax profit in line with market expectations.
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