All Features articles – Page 621
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Plucky Scots land football’s top prize
The plucky Scots, so often football’s heroic failures, have swept to victory against all the odds after the much-fancied Millennium Dome flopped early in the tournament, having failed to get the crowd behind it.The Parly is a deserving victor, having kept the local crowd on its toes ever since the ...
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Foster’s wobble lets in Libeskind
As usual, the critics were divided over Daniel Libeskind’s presentation. The skewed asymmetrical lines of his Spiral routine grated on traditionalists, who felt it lacked the grace and fluidity of traditional floor routines. They likened Libeskind’s performance to a pile of boxes tumbling – an accolade that would flatter few ...
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It’s all in the timing
The Working Time Regulations may defend workers’ rights, but they were badly drafted, overlong and full of holes. Now, the DTI has tried to correct these problems with a new guidance document.
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The never-ending story of Terminal 5
Legend has it that the unfortunate Greek messenger Phidippides collapsed and died of exhaustion after completing the first marathon. The team working on Heathrow’s Terminal 5, however, are more likely to die of old age before the £1bn project is finished: a decade on from the start line, not a ...
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The ABC of B2B
Do you know your ADSL from your ISP? Or are you just confused by all the jargon surrounding business-to-business e-commerce? Our glossary of crucial phrases will help you chat with confidence.
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Time is not on your side
If an adjudicator awards a builder a given sum for work that is subsequently shown to be defective, is the client within its rights to knock off a certain amount to compensate?
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Opinion poll
Do you know what your staff really think of you? Use an employee attitude survey to find out, says Hays Montrose’s Rob Smith.
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Nieuw-Terbregge, Rotterdam
High-density schemes that update building forms first explored in the 1970s are a recurrent theme of contemporary Dutch housing. Within the experimental Nieuw-Terbregge estate in the inner suburbs of Rotterdam, one of The Netherlands' most imaginative architects, Mecanoo, has come up with high-density dual-aspect housing terraces in which car parking ...
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Setting a new standard
The first standard form partnering contract has been launched, and here the man who helped to draft it explains why the industry is going to like what it sees.
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Langerak, Leidsche Rijn
Langerak is one of the very few contributions by a British architect to Dutch mainstream housing. While conforming to Dutch conventions of layout and construction, the new-build scheme of 77 terraced houses for sale, designed by Maccreanor Lavington Architects, manifests a slightly English domestic character. The housing scheme is part ...
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Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam
Kop van Zuid is Rotterdam's docklands regeneration scheme, which won government approval in 1991. Although greater Rotterdam remains the world's largest port, the docklands regeneration area is a compact 125 ha, just one tenth of London's. Lying opposite the city centre on the bank of the River Maas, Kop van ...
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How do they do it?
Six Dutch construction techniques are being put through their paces on Millennium Plus, a social housing scheme on the Nightingale Estate in Hackney, east London. Here's how they will speed up site works.
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The future is orange
Dutch housing is the envy of UK architects and contractors. What makes it so special?
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Speed freaks
With sports-car looks and plenty of oomph beneath the bonnet, the latest gadgets will set pulses racing. Pay up, plug in and prepare to roar down the information superhighway.
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Feeding frenzy
After three headline-grabbing deals, there’s talk that more contractors will be swallowed up in a wave of consolidation. Others disagree – but then they’re probably on the menu …
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Getting even
Some councils charge firms a fee every time they put up a hoarding in a street. Cowboys, of course, don’t tell the council and don’t pay. Under the best value rules, this has to stop – but will councils apply them?
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Cost model: Commercial research laboratories
It has been decided that UK plc’s economic wellbeing depends on its scientific base, so billions of pounds of investment are being poured into it. The snag for construction is that labs are unlike other buildings. So, in this month’s cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest looks at what goes ...
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Thinking big
An interest in large-scale urban design took young architect S333 from London to Amsterdam. Six years on, directors Barton Hamfelt and Jonathan Woodroffe say they’ve landed on their feet.
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The RIBA bites back
Robert Akenhead’s last article (“Who’d employ an architect”, 28 July), was a root-and-branch attack on the RIBA’s new standard contract, which, he argued, unreasonably limited an architect’s liabilities and heaped obligations on the client. Here, two members of the institute give their response.
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Appointments
ContractorTaylor Woodrow has appointed Jeremy Sampson group general counsel. He will be responsible for legal services.HousebuilderStamford Homes has appointed David Connolly land director at its head office in Peterborough.Consultants Turner & Townsend has promoted Mike Moore to director of its operation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Project manager and quantity surveyor ...