All Features articles – Page 622
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Meet the expert
Tapping into the huge pool of information available from its magazines and databases, Building's publisher this month launches a huge new portal. Here's what to expect …
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Sandbags are not enough
Climate change will happen whatever cuts are made to greenhouse gases, and that means floods, driving rain, mass subsidence – and a whole different way of building.
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The return of the dragon
Frightened by the handover to China and weakened by Asia's flu, it's been a rough few years for Hong Kong. Now it's back in business like never before.
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The design of risk
Thinking of a venture into the public-private battlefield? In the first of a series of articles on PFI, find out how your contract can protect you in the skirmishes over design.
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Message to deliver
For new Construction Confederation chief Stephen Ratcliffe, focusing on external issues is the best way to unite its members.
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Spotlight on stone cladding
Lead times The overall lead time for panellised stone cladding was 41 weeks in the third quarter, a figure that has not changed since the fourth quarter of 1999.However, the lead time is likely to be a month or so longer for a complex facade, even if the design is ...
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Change at the top
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose explains how to get a new boss settled in without hassle.
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Bouygues reconsidered
You'll know about the Bouygues case, the one where the adjudicator got his sums wrong and the court enforced anyway. Well, you may be interested to know that that wasn't what happened at all …
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Once bitten, fight shy
Once again, the adjudicator's figures on an award have proved controversial. But in this dispute even an admission of error failed to keep the case from court
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Clarified better
The appeal court's ruling in Henry Boot vs Alstom has clarified the way variations should be valued and now, the ICE 7th Edition is making it easier to identify valuation problems at the outset.
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The stress timebomb
Yesterday was National Stress Day, but did you have enough time to do anything about it? Job insecurity, high technology and a frenzied marketplace have conspired to turn stress into a hidden epidemic, but construction is proving slow to act.
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Still shining
Three years after its opening, the Guggenheim still dazzles visitors and has cast its spell over Bilbao. But the secret behind its success is proving a little more elusive.
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Rights and wrongs
Solicitor Michael Ryley tells employers how to avoid the pitfalls in the Human Rights Act.
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Suffering in silence: One man's story
John is a married 36-year-old, and the father of two young children. He is a project manager working in northern England on a prestigious operation."I think there are a lot of people struggling in this industry, but nobody wants to admit it. The company says we can go to them ...
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The problem of existence
If you sign a letter of intent with a company that doesn't exist, do £1m of work and then it all falls through, whom, if anyone, can you sue? Architect HOK found out after it took on a job in Hanover.
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The costcutter
This man is one of the most powerful people in construction. Some of the biggest clients in the industry do what he says. But who is Deryk Eke?
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Clash points
Defence Estates created prime contracting to integrate its supply chain and build strong teams. But can major contractors adjust to the culture of co-operation and equality that the new regime will rely on?
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Clash points
Rudi misses the point of prime contracting. It means that most main contractors are subcontractors, too. In any case, as the ultimate holder of risk, it will be in the prime contractor's interests to create a supportive team.
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Check out the policy
How can it be that a client ends up out of pocket when a subcontractor causes a fire on site? Someone wasn't paying close enough attention to the insurance clauses.
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Products of change
As the potential for e-commerce continues to grow, suppliers are facing a world of change in the way they do business – and, as a recent DETR report warns, not exploiting what the web has to offer could be fatal.