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Splitting headache
Cracks are showing in the glazed roof of the National Centre for Glass. Whether it's down to builders, skateboarders, stones or the weather, restoring the centre to its former transparent glory will be costly.
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Sea through
A glazed roof is the star of a redevelopment scheme designed to help Greenwich's Maritime Museum cope with millennium-fuelled tourism.
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It's a hard life
Laing has a tough job on its hands creating the International Centre for Life. A steel frame that flexes to cope with the earth's elements is topped by the complex curves of an asymmetric roof.
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Now we're talking
In a bid to get departments and regional offices communicating, Kier is investing £2m in a streamlined, centralised computer system.
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Rip-roaring success
Contractors have the chance to make National Construction Week go with a bang if they use it as an opportunity to stop meddling with standard subcontract forms and tear up onerous amendments.
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Partnering comes unstuck
Not so long ago, partnering was being hailed as the answer to construction's contractual problems. But it is doomed to failure unless the industry and its clients take on board the practical philosophy it embodies.
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Adjudication so far
An adjudicator gives his impressions and reflections on how well the process is working in the cases he has been involved with.
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When overseas …
Specifying outside the UK can be fraught with difficulties for British consultants. Local codes and standards apply and only the translated document will stand up in court.
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Just the job
Whitby Bird & Partners' building physicist Duncan Price tells Nancy Cavill about low-energy design, Tanzanian solar cookers and white-water canoeing.
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Appointments
Contractors Tony Walton has been appointed managing director of Oxfordshire-based Western Counties Construction. Dallast Wiltshier has appointed Dave Muncaster regional construction director in the South-west. David Pinch has joined the South-west division as regional estimating director and Simon Rider has been made regional finance director. Colin ...
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£100m claims cast pall over Tarmac demerger
Analysts say possible losses on disputes in Copenhagen, Derby and Cork may make it difficult to split company.
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Budget tax reprieve for materials producers
No aggregate tax on quarrying yet, but Brown announces new energy levy.
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PFI chief Montague to quit this summer
Adrian Montague, head of the government's private finance initiative taskforce, is set to quit when his contract expires in August. It is understood that Montague's plan to scrap the PFI in its current form and create a Government Investment Bank to finance deals found favour with former paymaster-general ...
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QS Currie & Brown joins forces with Ernst & Young
First-ever strategic alliance formed between a QS and accountant.
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Planning disputes delay Millennium Village
Arguments mean Countryside/Taywood joint venture may not start on site until autumn.
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South Bank Centre shortlist announced
Thirteen international architects have been shortlisted to draw up a masterplan for the South Bank Centre. The list includes 10 UK firms, and two Dutch and one Spanish firm, selected from 76 entries. The shortlisted firms are: Alsop and Störmer (Atlantic); David Chipperfield Architects; Zaha Hadid; Rick Mather Architects; ...
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Europe's biggest retail centre opens
Bluewater park in Kent, Europe's largest retail and leisure development, will open for business next Tuesday. Built by Bovis for client Lend Lease on a 100 ha former chalk quarry, the £350m centre provides 154 000 m 2 of floor space for more than 320 retail outlets. It also ...
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Norwich firm takes on nationals for £60m scheme
RG Carter on final shortlist of three for millennium project to redevelop former library site.
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Egan snail's pace progress attacked by industry
Movement for Innovation chairman rejects allegations of administrative delay to projects.
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Arup wins landmark market redevelopment
Consultant's radical mixed-use scheme for Bermondsey chosen from shortlist of eight.