All Building articles in 2005 issue 21 – Page 2
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FeaturesPods and monsters
A medical research centre where scientists are banished to the basement and life-or-death matters are discussed beneath giant deep-sea creatures, orange bubble clusters and alien spacecraft … we visits Will Alsop’s most flamboyant, and contradictory, offering yet.
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Comment
The meaning of success
Your description of Dalston City Partnership as successful is not entirely accurate.
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NewsDo the locomotion
Architect Austin-Smith:Lord’s design for Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham, has been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year and the Conservation Awards.
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CommentThe little princes
Our columnist recalls two weeks in the 1990s when he was privileged to have the honour of working with a group of highly skilled young management trainees
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CommentYou know it makes sense
The British Property Federation has produced one short, simple and fair consultancy agreement for every profession. What do you think its reception will be?
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Comment
Know your rights
Five years ago this month the Third Parties Act came into force with the intention of doing away with the tedium of collateral warranties. So did it succeed?
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NewsA kite for the Olympics
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox International and airport planner Netherlands Airport Consultants have won a design competition for an international airport in Tianjin, the fourth largest city in China.
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Features
Hot or not?
Public sector projects are keeping contractors busy across the UK. Now, as the Kelly Review of construction capacity reveals, demand is boiling over in the North-west and London.
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FeaturesThe hard sell
Get your prospective employer to make you an offer you can't refuse, say Rob Norris and Ben Byram
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CommentA Westerner’s guide
Following Building’s whirlwind tour of China earlier this month, two experts explain the Chinese approach to contract law, regulations and business practices
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FeaturesStars and gripes
When Emcor lambasted its failing UK subsidiary Drake & Scull, US-based boss Frank T MacInnis asked Tony Whale to turn the firm around. Whale has, but he isn’t out of the woods yet. We met the two to discuss their future.
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Comment
Fuming at the F-word …
You ask: “Will top-up fees damage architecture?” (13 May, page 17). The answer is yes.
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Comment
An education in form filling
You report that the education sector may be about to embrace an “NHS Procure21-style” strategy for the procurement of its buildings (6 May, page 11).
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News
Miliband review set to slim down Prescott’s empire
The review of the ODPM that has been ordered by David Miliband, the new communities and local government minister, is designed to pave the way for the reorganisation of John Prescott’s sprawling departmental empire.
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Government forced to extend LIFT deadline
The government has extended the deadline for consortiums to reach financial close on its LIFT programme from a year to 15 months.
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews makes its annual appraisal of the costs of building and maintaining a standard factory in 14 European countries and finds the familiar north-south divide
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FeaturesComing in to land …
This is the UK’s first international airport for half a century. But just 14 months ago it was a disused RAF nuclear bomber base that people feared might contain unexploded bombs and radioactivity. We checked in at Robin Hood Airport to find out how it was transformed
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Four Essex colleges planned for Thames Gateway
Government training agency the Learning and Skills Council is to extend its education building programme in Essex as part of the regeneration of the Thames Gateway.
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Clients and consultants go to war over project liability
Gulf between two has been exposed by publication of contract drawn up by the British Property Federation
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