All Features articles – Page 636

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    Dodging two-stage pitfalls

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Egan’s model of open-plan tendering can be undermined by contractors careful to cover their backs. But trouble can be avoided by getting into contracts early, or by building in some controlled competition.

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    Blair heads attractions at record Building Awards

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    1300-strong audience watches PM’s first speech on construction at Grosvenor House Hotel.

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    Appointments

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    ContractorBirmingham-based RW Buxton has appointed John Scott-Lee business development director.HousebuildersWestbury Group has appointed group operations director Nigel Fee managing director of Westbury Homes. Deputy group finance director Colin Cole has been made Westbury Homes’ deputy managing director. Paul Heaton has been appointed land manager for the Yorkshire region of ...

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    There once was an ugly duckling …

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Provincial towns are being given much-needed makeovers to enable them to compete with their more fashionable neighbours.

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    Morley’s cricket school makes Edgbaston debut

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    David Morley and Bryant Priest Newman’s £2.4m “Lord’s II” school opens for Warwickshire.

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    Keep out of harm’s way

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Cutting corners on health and safety is not good business practice. It turns you into a criminal. And as the law shifts to recognise corporate liability, you can expect to be treated like one.

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    ‘They just quietly beaver away, changing the face of the world’

    2000-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Designing buildings is one thing, but working out where to place them to maximise their use requires in-depth analysis of public spaces. Which is where a little-known firm called Space Syntax comes in.

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    Specialist subcontractor of the year

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The top firms in the award sponsored by The Facilities Business worked on some of last year's most prestigious projects, including the Millennium Dome and Bluewater.

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    Surveying practice of the year

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    In this Hays Montrose-sponsored category, the firms have fully embraced the Egan agenda, concentrating on client satisfaction, introducing benchmarking and upping partnering deals.

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    Ooh,Missis!

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Michael Wilford's brash, blowsy arts centre is more fat ladies than matchstick men. But this disjointed Salford landmark could well become as popular with the public.

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    Multidisciplinary practice of the year

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Repeat business and a truly diverse skills base caught the eyes of the judges in this category, which was sponsored by materials group Marshalls.

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    Project/construction manager of the year

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    In this Barbour Index-sponsored award, sound financial results and the outstanding management of complex schemes such as Bovis Lend Lease's Bluewater were the deciders.

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    Just the job

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Dealing with protesters and meeting the Terminator are all in a day’s work for Carillion’s special events operations manager.

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    Ian Macpherson

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The winner of the Owens Corning-sponsored Personality of the Year award retired last year after 35 years in construction – 10 of them heading the hugely successful CM firm he founded.

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    How to make money and still go to heaven

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Steve Wright, head of Gusto Construction, has been taken aback by the interest in his ecologically virtuous Nottinghamshire development. But he’s a quick learner. Now he’s thinking of setting up as a green consultant.

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    Strewth! Oz gets tough

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Cowboy builders in Australia will be chopped off at the knees by legislation that’s far more hardline than ours. In New South Wales, firms face blacklists, huge fines and even prison if they transgress.

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    Gatecrashing parties

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    New legislation giving rights to third parties is a bona fide grey area, and contracts will have to exclude it until the courts can set out some case law. It is also a wonderful opportunity …

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    Where do you draw the line?

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The Plant Construction vs Clive Adams and Another case was the first time that the courts have ruled on a contractor’s obligation to warn of potential hazards in design and construction plans.

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    How the winners were chosen

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    More than 200 contractors, consultants, housebuilders and builders merchants entered the sixth annual Building Awards.

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    Builders merchant of the year

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    On-line business sorted the men from the boys in this award sponsored by Dulux, with Travis Perkins' free Internet access and e-catalogue securing it first prize.