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Back by popular demand: Building’s share-tip competition
We asked five construction analysts to pick the contractor and materials producer they expect to be the best performer over the next 12 months. The share prices shown were taken at the close of trading on 15 December 1999. The analyst whose stocks show the biggest combined percentage rise on ...
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Log on, link up, branch out
E-commerce, partnering and global thinking will shape the year ahead. But what faces and landmarks will drive the industry in 2000?
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How to lose clients
First person Now it’s a seller’s market, architects don’t have to put up with the kind of treatment they get from bad clients. Do they?
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Reinventing the wheel
At first glance, the capsules for the Millennium Wheel look fairly conventional. In fact, nobody has ever built anything like them before – and the problems were unprecedented, too.
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Smart design
We keep hearing that 3D modelling and intelligent objects are the future of building design. Can AutoCAD Architectural Desktop Release 2 smooth the transition to the new era?
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Inflated claims?
An adjudicator decided he had the authority to referee a compromise agreement. One of the parties disagreed and refused to abide by the adjudicator’s decision. So what next?
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A certifiable nuisance
The DETR’s latest consultation paper on self-certification under the Building Regulations makes businesses vulnerable to court action, and introduces yet another time-consuming approval mechanism.
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I don’t speak legalese
Lawyers used to help their clients write statements and affidavits. But, under the Civil Procedure Rules, witnesses must junk the jargon and write in their own words.
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Be reasonable – or else
Following the Woolf report, courts are trying to shovel as much of their caseload as they can onto the books of ADR providers. But can you force people to be reasonable?
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Materials life costs
The Building Performance Group guide to how long building components last and their whole-life costs. This week: asphalt, single-ply polymer and bituminous membrane flat roofs.
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Flexible friends
The Institute of Management’s Karen Charlesworth on how flexible working can help your career and your firm.
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Appointments
ContractorsDoug Elliott has been made managing director of design-and-build firm TNG, part of Unite Group.Birse Construction has promoted Steve Barker to marketing director of its civil engineering division. John Branton replaces Barker as marketing manager of the North-east civils business.Mark Kirwan has been appointed general manager at fit-out specialist Crispinteriors, ...
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Cardiff stadium needs propping for gig
Giant steel supports to be installed in scramble to get safety certificate for new year's eve party
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NHS and Defence Estates to share know-how
Defence Estates to advise health service on procurement but aims to learn over benchmarking.
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Defence Estates launches prime pilots
Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, has revealed that it is piloting two variations on its prime contracting procurement route.Chief executive Ian Andrews announced the pilots at a conference last Friday. He said that, under the first type of contract, a single contractor will be appointed to act ...
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UK Athletics backs Foster's £475m Wembley design
Sports bodies agree that temporary running track will enable stadium to host Olympic athletics.
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Tube bidders to claim costs if mayor axes job
Contractors bidding for the £7bn part-privatisation of London Underground are warning that they will claim compensation for their bid costs if the election of a London mayor leads to the cancellation of the project.One contractor said the bid would cost at least £10m, adding that it would claim costs if ...
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Christmas pay row breaks out at Canary Wharf
Union claims that contractor is failing to ensure that subcontractors are paid statutory holiday entitlement.