More Focus – Page 522
-
Features
I can't believe it's not Foster!
Ten years on, BAA is extending London Stansted Airport. Would the construction team be able to respect Norman Foster's ground-breaking design yet still deliver substantial cost savings?
-
Features
Warming to Chile
Building up relationships slowly and surely rather than through a hard-sell approach is the key to cashing in on Chile's ambitious five-year construction programme.
-
Features
On Foster ... Foster On
On Foster ... Foster OnEdited by David JenkinsPrestel£45Given the stream of new volumes on Lord Foster and his architecture, it might be tempting to call this doorstop of a book Foster On and On. It is, in fact, an anthology of writings spanning 30 years, mostly of reviews on Foster ...
-
Features
Reinventing the Wheel
Reinventing the WheelEdited by Ian LambotWatermark£35The creation of the London Eye on the Thames riverfront is one of the architectural and engineering triumphs of our time. Ian Lambot followed this process from the concept stage to the opening day with his camera, and this wonderful book is the result. It ...
-
Features
Sustainable Housing: Principles & Practice
Sustainable Housing: Principles & PracticeEdited by Brian Edwards and David TurrentTaylor & Francis Books£30Sustainable is used here as much in the sense of self-sustaining communities as of green technologies. Brian Edwards, professor of architecture at Huddersfield University, defines sustainable housing as "housing that meets the perceived and real ...
-
Features
Scotland cost forecast
Scottish output soared last year – especially in private commercial – and although new orders are down slightly in 2000, they are forecast to pick up strongly in the second half.New ordersFresh orders for new construction work won by contractors fell in 1999 in England and Wales, according to ...
-
Features
Just the job
Social research consultant Helen Bidwell meets everyone from drug users to local residents – but, as yet, no celebrities.
-
Features
Appointments
HousebuildersHousebuilder Charles Church has appointed Matthew Nash as sales manager for the area covering Hertfordshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.John Homer has been promoted to area construction manager at Twigden Homes. He will be responsible for the East and West Midlands.Dean Dye, Jason Towers and Brian McDougall have been promoted to ...
-
Features
Appointments
Contractors Engineer and contractor Black & Veatch has appointed Doug Smith managing director of its European infrastructure business. He also becomes managing director of its UK business Binnie Black & Veatch.EBC Group has appointed Richard Smith area director for Reading. Nigel McArthur has been promoted to director responsible ...
-
Features
Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
-
Features
Arup picks wobbly bridge solution
Engineer Arup has chosen its preferred solution to curb the wobble on the Millennium Bridge across the Thames. The preferred solution, to be revealed in a report next week, is understood to consist of a passive damping system mounted beneath the deck of the £18m bridge, plus secondary bracing added ...
-
Features
Ken's half way house
Ken Livingstone has threatened to veto housing schemes unless half of the units are affordable. And he means it. But with the best will in the world, can housebuilders rise to the challenge?
-
Features
'The most energy efficient building ever'
Bennetts Associates' £22m Wessex Water headquarters is such a triumph of green design that it's better than the BRE's idea of as good as it gets. Building was given a sneak preview.
-
Features
Renaissance man
Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.
-
Features
Now arrived from Brussels
The big red-tape machine in Brussels is still churning out directives for our benefit. But do they work? And are you affected?
-
Features
Glowing panes
The brief: design a glass wall for the Science Museum's Wellcome Wing to cast a blue glow from outside, in any conditions, with no moving parts. Was it even possible?
-
Features
Feeling the pinch
Can you lift another builder's design or design features into your building? Yes, you can just so long as you copy the ideas and not the expression of those ideas.
-
Features
Indecent proposals
Ann Minogue's column on the new standard form of subcontract for use on government work the GC/Works Subcontract challenged the Constructors Liaison Group to a tempered debate. It begins here.