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It's a girl thing
This £7m library for London Guildhall University was designed by Wright & Wright Architects. It stores and displays the National Collection on Women, the oldest women's library in the world. Davis Langdon & Everest and Wright & Wright were joint QS and project manager. Arup was the engineer.
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Planning breaches human rights, claims McAlpine
Contractor mounts High Court legal battle over planning process after housing application is thrown out.
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Unite is the first Entrepreneur of the Year
A company that provides accommodation for students and key workers this week won Building's first Entrepreneur of the Year award and £5000.
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Reid wins Rushes
Architect Geoffrey Reid Associates has received detailed planning permission for the £30m Rushes retail and leisure development in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Construction on the 200,000 ft2 project is to begin in January, and is expected to take 18 months. Clients are Metrobrook and Highland Loughborough; project manager and QS is John ...
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Jarvis clinches £300m PFI deal to build 15 schools
… and Kier subsidiary Academy Services wins £58m PPP for Essex schools as education sector takes off.
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Fast-acting relief
GlaxoSmithKline's £315m global headquarters in west London has echoes of BA Waterside – but it was built in half the time.
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Oscar Faber bought by US engineering giant Aecom
Aecom merges UK consulting engineer with Maunsell as part of drive to dominate European market.
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Output to fall next year, forecaster warns
A leading construction forecaster has predicted that the terror attacks on New York will lead to total output falling 2% next year.
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Housing market hit by US attacks
Prowting and Gleeson this week warned the City that the housing market and consumer confidence have been hit by the terrorist attacks on the USA.
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London firm targets unhappy US clients
Architect Watkins Gray International has set up a joint venture with Washington DC-based practice Group Goetz to target blue-chip corporate clients operating in Britain and the USA.
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Hunt is on for new Taywood chief
Taylor Woodrow has started the search for a replacement for chief executive Keith Egerton after he retires next summer.
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What went wrong?
The construction of the Welsh assembly in Cardiff is in chaos, after the sacking of Richard Rogers Partnership. Building finds out why it happened – and whether the design can be saved.
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Outside the box
Charlie Luxton was a student when TV decided he was architecture's answer to Jamie Oliver. Building met him and found he's a pretty good riposte to housebuilders, too.
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Conran the Barbarian
Nobody could accuse Sir Terence of being crude, but his legacy of anorexic good taste may be a more dangerous enemy of exciting design
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Wharf speed
Developer St George is using construction techniques borrowed from the big boys to chop chunks off the build time of its Thames-side landmark – and to keep the cash coming in.
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Alchemy in the UK
John Morgan, the man who transformed himself from punk impresario with a microscopic office in Soho to the boss of £650m contractor Morgan Sindall, kicks off our special feature on entrepreneurs. Morgan was also a judge at Building's first Entrepreneur of the Year award – the winner and ...
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Entrepreneur of the Year 2001
All the finalists in Building's Entrepreneur of the Year award had identified gaps in the market and exploited them with great ideas. Building profiles the winner and the worthy runners-up, and looks at the reasons for their successes
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The common touch
We know that pay-when-paid clauses were partially outlawed by the Construction Act, but how do they fare under common law?
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Watch the small print
Buried in a footnote of JCT 98 is jumbo-size trap: if your dispute goes to court, the case has to be fought as if no adjudication took place. Tread carefully