All Features articles – Page 630
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Getting even
Some councils charge firms a fee every time they put up a hoarding in a street. Cowboys, of course, don’t tell the council and don’t pay. Under the best value rules, this has to stop – but will councils apply them?
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Feeding frenzy
After three headline-grabbing deals, there’s talk that more contractors will be swallowed up in a wave of consolidation. Others disagree – but then they’re probably on the menu …
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Speed freaks
With sports-car looks and plenty of oomph beneath the bonnet, the latest gadgets will set pulses racing. Pay up, plug in and prepare to roar down the information superhighway.
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The future is orange
Dutch housing is the envy of UK architects and contractors. What makes it so special?
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How do they do it?
Six Dutch construction techniques are being put through their paces on Millennium Plus, a social housing scheme on the Nightingale Estate in Hackney, east London. Here's how they will speed up site works.
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Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam
Kop van Zuid is Rotterdam's docklands regeneration scheme, which won government approval in 1991. Although greater Rotterdam remains the world's largest port, the docklands regeneration area is a compact 125 ha, just one tenth of London's. Lying opposite the city centre on the bank of the River Maas, Kop van ...
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Langerak, Leidsche Rijn
Langerak is one of the very few contributions by a British architect to Dutch mainstream housing. While conforming to Dutch conventions of layout and construction, the new-build scheme of 77 terraced houses for sale, designed by Maccreanor Lavington Architects, manifests a slightly English domestic character. The housing scheme is part ...
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Setting a new standard
The first standard form partnering contract has been launched, and here the man who helped to draft it explains why the industry is going to like what it sees.
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Nieuw-Terbregge, Rotterdam
High-density schemes that update building forms first explored in the 1970s are a recurrent theme of contemporary Dutch housing. Within the experimental Nieuw-Terbregge estate in the inner suburbs of Rotterdam, one of The Netherlands' most imaginative architects, Mecanoo, has come up with high-density dual-aspect housing terraces in which car parking ...
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Opinion poll
Do you know what your staff really think of you? Use an employee attitude survey to find out, says Hays Montrose’s Rob Smith.
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Time is not on your side
If an adjudicator awards a builder a given sum for work that is subsequently shown to be defective, is the client within its rights to knock off a certain amount to compensate?
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How the West 12 was won
Assemble a 1500 tonne steel bridge on the fragile roof of a shopping centre while keeping the shops open and dodging rotten fruit? It's all in a day's work in the badlands of Shepherd's Bush
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Architects’ fees survey 2000
Ask a brickie how he s doing and you ll hear that, not only is the industry fine, but more and more money is finding its way into his back pocket. Ask an architect, however, and, as Mirza and Nacey Research s figures published today suggest, you ll hear a ...
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The top 50 contractor's web sites
The first-ever league table of contractors web sites is about to be published, and it shows that you don t have to be big to rule the net. Here s how the rankings were compiled, and how to challenge for the top spot in 2001.
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You haven’t been paying attention
After years of penny-pinching neglect, Britain s squalid schools are being completely re-evaluated and this time, design is at the top of the agenda.
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Whose loss is it anyway?
A company that hasn t suffered direct loss from defective work can t sue for damages under the provisions of common law, according to the judgment in one of the longest disputes in construction history.
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Appointments
Contractors John Howell has been promoted to managing director at Bovis Lelliott, the London-based Lend ease subsidiary that specialises in refurbishment. Chris Pearce has been promoted to director of Payne Building Contractors in Southampton. Housebuilders Beazer Homes Bedford has appointed Stephen Doherty, previously with Barratt Homes, land director. Charles Church ...
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Out of bounds
Section 105(2) of the Construction Act is a real dog s dinner. Under it, certain site works are not covered. So, what happens when someone calls an adjudicator on an exempt site?
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Cost update
This quartely analysis looks at materials prices for disposal systems and the latest wage agreements
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Dickon Robinson
Modest, intelligent and visionary, the Peabody Trust development director has an uncanny knack of solving problems before anybody else notices them.