All Building articles in 2006 issue 27 – Page 2
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CommentSons and lovers
O’Rourke junior closes in on his old man’s job, a muscular architect dreams of forbidden love with a lady lawyer and a contractor turns its site office into an art gallery
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FeaturesLife can be a picnic …
… if you set up your own architectural practice. But it’s not all brainstorming in the back garden, flexible hours and creative control. Emily Wright asked five young architects how to go it alone.
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CommentSorry, its not a runner
The CIC says its consultants’ contract is aimed at experienced clients, but they’ll be the last to abandon bespoke forms for an agreement that includes an aggregate cap on liabilities
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CommentNow and then - Meddling with the housing market
David Rogers on how the problems we face now are the same ones that defeated us 89 years ago
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CommentThank heavens for the Olympics
It’s been a devil of a week on the playing fields. The English cricket team was whitewashed by Sri Lanka, all the Brits crashed out of Wimbledon and the football team … well let’s not go there.
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CommentStuff happens
Here’s an immutable fact: the world is changing faster than we can put buildings up. So, when it comes to big construction schemes, it’s naive to expect a precise specification and no changes mid-project
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Whither Sir Godfrey?
I know that you will have received countless observations on who was left out of the Building Hall of Fame, but I have to express my disappointment, having joined Wimpey as a trainee QS in 1963, about the omission of Sir Godfrey Mitchell, when Sir John Laing and Lord Taylor ...
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FeaturesGetting well sooner
West London’s BECAD hospital takes traditional healthcare and repackages it into one seamless facility that offers more patients better services for a fraction of the usual effort, space and cost … Martin Spring explains how it was done
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Students: free money here
Students who read your piece on graduate debt and pay (23 June, page 68) may be interested to hear about the Inspire Scholarships scheme.
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NewsHSE to focus on migrant workers
The Health and Safety Executive is preparing a campaign to improve the safety standards of migrant workers in construction.
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NewsSafety firsts
At Building’s annual Health and Safety Awards held at the London Hilton on Park Lane last Thursday, almost 800 guests celebrated the achievements of the industry – and especially those of Bovis boss John Spanswick, who won the Outstanding Safety Achievement award …
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Educations what you need
In addition to the ideas listed in your article, can I suggest that creating awareness of energy use and waste through energy handbooks could contribute to erergy savings?
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EC Harris picks its team for PFI schools work
EC Harris has bolstered its chances of joining the City Academies framework by signing up five builders and six signature architects to work with it.
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NewsHaste plans Laing O’Rourke expansion in Middle East
Division’s new chief operating officer targets Qatar in five-year business strategy
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Disputing the dispute
The applicant charterers Exfin applied to set aside an arbitration award in favour of the respondent ship-owners, Tolani for some US$130,000. Exfin argued that there was no “dispute” between the parties pursuant to the arbitration clause in the parties’ contract because Exfin had admitted the liability, the amount of the ...
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CommentUrban design with guitar!
Open mike - Bands such as the Arctic Monkeys have put Sheffield on the pop-cultural map. Now, their energy is feeding into the debate about the city’s regeneration
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