Marcus Fairs

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  • Features

    California SW6

    2003-02-21T00:00:00

    The latest addition to the grey streets of west London is CZWG's crazily (and controversially) coloured Fulham Island. Even on a snowy winter morning, this mixed-use development-cum-fairground attraction conjures up sunshine and California beaches.

  • Features

    Battle of Trafalgar

    2003-02-21T00:00:00

    The pigeons have left Trafalgar Square, but a new menace has arrived – contractors causing chaos. And yet the British public has such low expectations of builders, it hasn't logged a single complaint. With this going on, what hope do we have of attracting talent to our industry?

  • Features

    Dream palaces

    2003-02-14T00:00:00

    Visionary architect Marks Barfield has created the Skyhouse, which is designed to solve the housing shortage while saving the environment. But will it ever get off the ground? ...

  • Features

    Consultants find their true worth

    2003-01-28T15:26:00

    The CIC found that consultants are making a growing contribution to the UK's national wealth. Total output was worth £12bn in 2001/2, or 1.4% of GNP. The only other such survey, published six years ago, found that consultants contributed 1% to GNP.

  • Features

    We love you

    2003-01-24T00:00:00

    A shocking reports into the state of Britain's building consultants (courtesy of the CIC and the DTI) finds that they are doing amazingly well, thank you. And contributing more to UK plc's economic well being than all those music, film, fashion and media jobs put together. We crunch the numbers.

  • News

    Consultants find their true worth

    2003-01-24T00:00:00

    Construction professionals make a greater contribution to Britain's national wealth than all its publishers, pop groups, television stations and film companies put together, according to a report to be published by the Construction Industry Council.

  • Features

    Ken Shuttleworth

    2003-01-17T00:00:00

    He's transformed the London skyline, conceived the form of the world's largest building and his design for Ground Zero is wowing New York. So why have so few people heard of him?

  • Features

    Richard Saxon

    2003-01-10T00:00:00

    As the Egan era draws to a close, the chair of construction think tank Be is ready to take over as the industry's helmsman. And, as he tells Marcus Fairs, his aim is to create an industry that has more self-confidence, more self-knowledge and more self-control.

  • Features

    Mystic wag

    2003-01-10T00:00:00

    In an attempt to stay ahead of events in 2003, Marcus Fairs invested in a crystal ball and saw from the news stories rolling off the presses that life in the construction industry will be as unpredictable as ever …

  • Features

    Heart warming

    2002-12-13T00:00:00

    After being abandoned by the public for a flashy young out-of-town mall, Sheffield's city centre is enticing them back with a number of arresting projects, the latest of which is this Pringle Richards Sharratt winter garden

  • Features

    Neil Holloway

    2002-12-13T00:00:00

    Microsoft UK's dynamic managing director is about to offer a cornucopia of supersmart IT devices to the construction industry, and he's eager to tell Marcus Fairs all about them …

  • Features

    Peter Gershon

    2002-11-08T00:00:00

    Hired to overhaul government procurement, Peter Gershon is a huge fan of the PFI. But, as Marcus Fairs found, the chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce is uncomfortable singing its praises.

  • News

    Saxon: We'll bury the Egan bodies

    2002-11-01T00:00:00

    richard saxon has predicted that the government-sponsored groups set up to disseminate culture change in the construction industry would fold within two years.

  • Features

    Green Haus

    2002-11-01T00:00:00

    The headquarters of the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover is a startling building in a boring city. But, says Marcus Fairs, the one thing it isn't shouting about – its green technology – is its most impressive feature.

  • Comment

    What's a computer for?

    2002-10-25T00:00:00

    Now it seems to have happened again. Superconsultant Atkins is in dire straits, partly because it tried to implement a bells-and-whistles IT system that has never worked properly (pages 60-63). But at least Atkins tried: construction is lagging way behind other industry sectors in its uptake of IT. As we ...

  • News

    Greenwich Millennium Village may double in size

    2002-10-25T00:00:00

    Countryside Properties and Taylor Woodrow aim to increase the number of homes from 1377 to 2500.

  • News

    Whitehall can’t regenerate our cities, says Rogers

    2002-10-18T00:00:00

    Urban taskforce chairman says devolvement of power, not government policy, is the key to urban regeneration. ...

  • Features

    Power to the people

    2002-10-18T00:00:00

    As a key player in Whitehall policy-making, Richard Rogers is an unlikely champion of devolved government. But, as Marcus Fairs finds out, he now thinks urban regeneration will only happen if decision are taken by the people on the ground

  • Features

    Plane sailing

    2002-10-18T00:00:00

    Madrid airport's new international terminal dwarfs Heathrow's T5, yet will cost half the price and be built in half the time. Building visited the site to see why things are going so well and found political will and national pride an unbeatable mix.

  • News

    We won’t drive Egan agenda, top clients tell industry

    2002-10-11T00:00:00

    Survey shows that employers are frustrated by the rate of change – but don’t want to set the pace themselves. ...

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