All Building articles in 2005 issue 20 – Page 3
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Services
In this month’s specialist market focus, Simon Willis, partner at cost consultant Gardiner & Theobald, examines today’s services sector – including the current hot topics, design considerations and the all-important costs. Plus, an M&E specialist speaks out
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News
Cost cutting at Mott MacDonald’s QS division
Consultant Mott MacDonald has embarked on a cost-cutting round that could lead to job losses at Franklin + Andrews, its QS and project management business.
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Comment
A more constructive exchange …
We, as committee members of The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) in the South-east, have read the recent exchanges about women in construction on the letters pages of Building with some dismay.
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News
Jarvis commercial director quits in volatile share week
Gordon Ray has quit as commercial director at Jarvis. Ray, who took over the role when Rob Johnson left last August, has joined Australian contractor and developer Multiplex.
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CommentYou do have a choice
Nick Henchie offers a lawyer’s appraisal of the options for contractors wanting to avoid small claims litigation
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FeaturesGet Luder: Owen Luder’s fight to save Gateshead carpark
From the archive: Back in 2005 Building joined the architect as he tried to save his brutallist car park, made famous by the film Get Carter, from demolition
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NewsInquiry into failure to build
The National Audit Office and Audit Commission are conducting an inquiry into housebuilding in the UK
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Comment
On the border
The parties had entered into a consent order compromising a boundary dispute that had arisen between them. The consent order attempted to define the boundary between the parties’ respective properties through the use of a plan. Surveyors appointed to measure, agree and peg out the boundary encountered a number of ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Amanda Lamb is dazzled by the multicoloured shell of a museum of dead animals, and turned off by an extinct shopping centre
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NewsBetter offices are the key to business success
The British Council of Offices and CABE spell out the impact of good workplaces on a firm’s bottom line
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Comment
Best Practice, best brand
I write with regard to the ever-changing branding of the crusade that is currently known as Constructing Excellence, was Rethinking Construction, grew out of Sir John Egan’s report, and began as Latham’s Constructing the Team.
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News
Planning begins for new nuclear generation
An industry working group has been set up to examine the implications of the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations.
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NewsPublic and private do battle for pilot social housing grant
Developers and housing associations have bid more than £1.7bn for the Housing Corporation’s £200m pilot programme to open up social housing grant to private sector bidders.
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News
RIW Toughseal at Bath Spa: A response
In response to Building’s article on the technical background to problems at the Bath Spa project (18 March, page 58), RIW Toughseal, the maker of the paint used on the project, issued the following statement.
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NewsAtkins flies high
Consultant Atkins China has won an international competition for an airport complex in Yinchuan, the capital of the province of Ningxia.
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NewsRock around the dock
This landmark tower, designed by Dublin-based architect BCDH, has been chosen by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority to mark the regeneration of the Docklands area.
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NewsRock around the dock
This landmark tower, designed by Dublin-based architect BCDH, has been chosen by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority to mark the regeneration of the Docklands area.
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NewsSMC to become UK’s second quoted architect
Stewart McColl, the chief executive of architect SMC Group, is planning to float the company on the alternative investment market for £25m
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Brewery redevelopment takes HBG to top in April
£100m mixed-use project for Scottish & Newcastle crowns triumphant month for contractor
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