All Building articles in 2005 issue 38 – Page 3
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News
‘Critical’ skills shortage set to hit New Orleans recovery
Consultant Davis Langdon predicts bid costs rises of 20% because of inflated salaries and lack of contractors
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Comment
A tragedy, not a crime
The Hatfield defendants were innocent, and would have been under a reformed law. If you want a villain in this piece, look at past and present governments
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Comment
Partners in crime
I sit and wonder whether Egan’s theory of partnering “twice as much for half the price” will ever be as famous as Einstein’s formula for the relationship between mass and energy, E=mc2. Partnering is the new “in thing” and at least 50% of local authorities are attempting to do it. ...
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FeaturesWhole-life costs: Hospital design
In this third article in our series, and as part of our PFI special, David Weight of Currie & Brown looks at the differences in lifetime costs between deep-plan, shallow-plan or courtyard-based hospital designs
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Steel firms join forces to fend off pay claim
Major steelwork contractors in London this week joined forces over pay, amid fears of a union push for increases at sites across the capital.
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Comment
Spoilt for choice
At last we have a contract that caters for third-party rights, but this extra option in the new JCT design-and-build contract could pose a problem
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ODPM takes up challenge from Rogers over communities
A senior civil servant at the ODPM has hinted that the sustainable communities plan could change after criticism from Richard Rogers’ Urban Task Force.
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Comment
Recycling centre is rubbish
I was astonished to read in Specifier (9 September) that one of the North London Waste and Recycling Centres is described as “an absolute Rolls-Royce of a job”.
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Comment
We’re not using CDM right
Any attempt to get the industry to recognise the financial and other benefits to be gained from improved logistics is to be applauded.
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NewsMiliband calls in EP to save new deal projects
Communities minister David Miliband has sent in English Partnerships to rescue the government’s failing flagship regeneration programme.
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Urban Splash picks Feilden Clegg Bradley
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley has been picked by the Urban Splash–Southern Housing Group consortium to pitch for the revamp of the Packington Estate in north London.
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FeaturesInfirmary blues
The PFI’s problems are not confined to the bid process. Even after a facility is up and running, there is a constant struggle between client and consortium over its running costs – as we’re finding out at Edinburgh.
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NewsMowlem blames problem contracts as troubles pile up
Staff start to circulate CVs as contractor takes £70m profit hit and pulls out of £90m Scottish schools contract
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NewsBlair pushes forward hover train proposal
Tony Blair has personally intervened to push forward the scrutiny of proposals for a high-speed hovering train link between Glasgow and London, giving the first clear signal that the government is seriously considering the plans, write Sarah Richardson and David Rogers.
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BPB and Saint-Gobain lock horns over hostile bid
The fight between BPB and French materials firm Saint-Gobain, which has launched a £3.6bn hostile takeover bid, raged on this week.
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London mayor launches bid to control skills body
London mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an attempt to take control of the Learning Skills Council in a move that would allow him to combat skills shortages in the run up to the Olympics.
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… and PFI designs get too little time, says Balls
Gordon Brown’s chief confidant has argued that more time must be given to the design of PFI projects.
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FeaturesStriking balance
Building on a college building in London that has shown work-life balance really works
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Profit warnings and job cuts: Mowlem’s bad year
Mowlem’s shock restructuring comes after a tumultuous year for the firm.
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