All Features articles – Page 598
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Hell on wheels
The final instalment of our public spending series looks at transport and law and order. On pages 50-51 we ask whether PFI is working in prisons and law courts. But first, Building finds out what's gone wrong with the government's £180bn plan to transform transport
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How Labour lost its way
Steve Norris on why Labour's investment is unlikely to produce a radical improvement of the country's transport network
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How to survive a merger
The past year has seen construction swept by mergers and takeovers. If it happens to you, what are your rights – and how can you hold on to your job?
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It's a wrap
It's almost finished. The vast bulk of the 660 steel-grey panels making up the facade of the GLA headquarters are in place, but the unusual shape of the building has brought unique challenges for the cladding specialists.
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What next for the railways?
Mike Grant examines the challenge faced by the Strategic Rail Authority and explains how it intends to set the railway back on track
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A cure for all ills?
Health and education are the focus of the second in our three-part series on Tony Blair's public spending plans. We examine Labour's £8.5bn schools investment. But of all the government's pledges, its plans to transform the NHS are the most expensive, ambitious and controversial. With PFI and PPP under attack, ...
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Appointments
ContractorsAshe Construction has promoted Chris Horsfield to contracts director in its London office. In Southampton, Mervyn Butler has been appointed managing director and Clive Harris has been made regional manager.Morgan Lovell has appointed Richard Sanderson (right) head of furniture. Paul Jagger has been appointed estimating and marketing director of JJ ...
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A Beginner's guide to health procurement
Department of HealthThe department runs the PFI programme and sets the rules for all other healthcare bodies to follow. In Sold on Health, last year's key report, the NHS was told to overhaul its capital procurement methods to improve design quality, reduce delays and achieve better value. In particular, it ...
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The demonising of PFI
A torrent of negative publicity has painted contractors as greedy and callous. Building weighs up the evidence
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Difficult sums
Right you lot, pay attention. If 100 firms bid for government investment of £8.5bn over three years, how many will make as much money as they expect to? Is it (a) all of them, (b) only the ones who know the PFI market, or (c) it depends on the government's ...
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Do you dig it or don't you?
The CITB wants to attract more young people into building. So, is its latest poster campaign a real, right on, happening event – or just a bit embarrassing? Building asked the yoof of south London
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The water engine
A chance observation in a Moroccan bus gave Charlie Paton an idea that could transform the agriculture of poor and infertile countries around the world. Building finds out how it works
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healthcare investment outside england
ScotlandScotland is currently investing nearly half a billion pounds in the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the Scottish NHS. Four new hospitals are complete, with two due to be finished by the end of this year, and another two by the end of 2003. Half of these ...
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'Hospitals should be like supermarkets'
NHS Estates' acting chief Peter Wearmouth has to please doctors, patients and contractors. How?
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Lead Times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald puts brickwork in the spotlight
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Rebuilding lives
Gordon Wordsworth, general manager of Sheffield Rebuild, tells Graeme Demianyk why he decided to prioritise social duty over profit-making
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Ring master
Barton Willmore's riverside HQ Thames Water is an oasis of civic design in the architecture desert of Reading's city centre.
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Teachers' pet
Jarvis has established itself as the firm to beat in the education market. Building finds out how
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A suitable standard
Designers are swamped with a host of quality assurance standards, which causes confusion