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Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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Three of the best
Refurbishment projects in Cheshire, Glasgow and Suffolk all feature sympathetic modern interventions in historic buildings.
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All systems go together
The former head of IT at Bovis, explains how interoperable computing systems could help construction teams speak the same language.
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Who's going to pay?
Does the Scheme for Construction Contracts give adjudicators the power to make one side pay the other's costs in an adjudication? The jury is still out.
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Dirty, dangerous work
A consultant recently went down for almost £20m after a judge found that it had negligently advised its client as to how much remediation was required in a development. What are the lessons for others?
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Free isn't always fair
Beware the exclusion clause – you can't always rely on the Unfair Contract Terms Act to get you out of trouble.
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Cost study: Teaching and research facility
In the first completed PFI project in higher education, a listed Victorian hospital building was converted into an advanced teaching and research facility. The 25-year service contract called for detailed life-cycle costing of materials. Compiled by Jarvis and HLM Architects
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Just the job
The Aukett Associates director tells Nancy Cavill why he gave up teaching, and why, like a swan, he never loses his cool.
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Materials life costs
The life-span of profiled metal claddings, and their susceptibility to corrosion, is tackled in the fourth in this series on the whole-life costs of materials, which is compiled by Building Performance Group to assist specifiers and clients.
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Millennium Dome hit by £1 wildcat strike
Steel erectors walk off dome and other high-profile sites in row over extra £1 an hour.
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2000 village inquiry says scheme lacks innovation
QS Gardiner & Theobald’s report says Countryside/Taywood is not hitting sustainability and innovation targets.
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New confederation chief sets out stall
Jennie Price, who takes over as the Construction Confederation’s chief executive when Ian Deslandes retires later this year, has set out her agenda to take the organisation into the new millennium.Price told Building that she wanted to build on the confederation’s success by ensuring that it became more focused, developing ...
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Home Office compensation
The Home Office has agreed to pay just £2m in compensation to the three consortia bidding to build the department’s new headquarters. This is £4m less than they asked for.The three teams, which are led by Bovis, Jarvis and developer Godfrey Bradman, claimed compensation in April when the Home Office ...
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Casson, herbivore of architecture,dies
Sir Hugh Casson, mastermind of the Festival of Britain and former president of the Royal Academy of Art, has died aged 89.At the age of 38, Sir Hugh was appointed architectural director of the Festival of Britain, which has been used as a model for next year’s Millennium ...
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Railtrack pilots modular system for stations
Prefabricated platforms and buildings to be trialled in three towns to assess cost savings.
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More high opera as sparks walk out at ROH – again
Electricians launch two-day strike after three escape death in backstage safety scare.
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CLG cries foul over payment loophole
The Constructors' Liaison Group has condemned contracts that allow contractors to delay payment to subcontractors despite legislation intended to outlaw the practice.In an interim report on the Construction Act, which the CLG sent to construction minister Nick Raynsford, the group criticises bespoke clauses that allow main contractors to withhold payment ...
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Conservation scheme launched
Owners of UK’s 10 000 listed buildings will be offered a dedicated maintenance service if pilot study proves successful.
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Delay tax reforms until 2000, plead specialists
Small contractors turn to government to stop new CIS tax system killing businesses.