All Features articles – Page 643
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Rooftop drama
Walsall's bus station was meant to fuel the town's regeneration but four months after its planned opening date, contractors are still working to correct its sagging roof. What went wrong?
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The West Country's Stansted
Opened earlier this month, the new £27m terminal to Bristol International Airport replaces a building on the other side of the runway. The clear-cut rectangular building beneath an oversailing canopy roof and behind clear-glazed walls stands as the symbolic gateway to the West Country. Its 17 500 m2 area, which ...
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Materials whole-life costs
Building Performance Group's guide to building components' lifespans and life costs tackles domestic kitchen units.
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Charted Territory
Ove Arup's Columbus is billed as a project document management system but, apart from the nifty viewing facilities, it hasn't really discovered anything new yet.
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Cases In Point
Court cases challenging adjudications often focus on whether or not the adjudicator had jurisdiction. Maybe it is time to allow the adjudicator to have some say in deciding his own jurisdiction.
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The Inflatable Café
How do you put a concrete and plastic structure in an area of outstanding beauty without spoiling it? Well, you could bury it, make it invisible, or blow it up it to resemble a cloud floating on a hill. Or all three
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Newcastle's budget halls
A new international passenger terminal has been added to a terminal at Newcastle International Airport. The addition, along with the refurbishment of the existing terminal, cost £27m and increases the airport's capacity to 4 million passengers a year. Designed by Crispin Wride Architectural Design Studio and engineer Gibb, it is ...
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Uphill struggle
The centrepiece of a £57m sports centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow. Concreting the 15° slope was just one problem this multipurpose building presented.
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Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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Stop right there!
If someone brings an adjudication against you when they have no right, do you have to go through the motions and hope to get it overturned later, or can you get a court to halt it?
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Reeling them in
IT: E-commerce Causeway Technologies boss Phil Brown has spent the past year pulling together all the different services he needs to lure customers to his e-marketplace, buildingworks.com.
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For your eyes only
Lawyer Charlotte Giller on how two new acts will affect an employee's rights to privacy at work.
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Conspiracy theory
This is the story of how a consulting engineer and a developer misled a client over practical completion, the role a collateral warranty played and how more than £1m was spent in pursuit of less than £13 000 damages.
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City slackers
Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?
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How to lose before you start
The Construction Act's payment rules have been overshadowed by adjudication. However, in tandem, they give contractors a super way to pole-axe an unwary client.
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Arbitration usurped
In the first of a new series on dispute resolution methods, we look at how arbitration has failed to achieve the objectives set out for it in the Arbitration Act 1996.
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Appointments
ContractorsAndy Stoddart has been promoted to managing director of Morgan Sindall.David Thomas has been appointed marketing manager for Ballast Wiltshier’s South-west operation.Martin Doe has been appointed strategic sales and marketing director of Laing’s construction arm.HousebuildersBeazer Homes has appointed Bernard Evans construction director.David Bemister has been promoted to site manager at ...
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Let’s get it together
Uncoordinated specifications can result in chaos and even claims. The architect (and its spec writer) could do something about it – if only they could get involved from the start.
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The North-east: Shirtsleeve weather
Geordies are renowned for their love of a good night out, and the construction market in the North-east reflects that, with a dazzling number of leisure developments in the pipeline.The Gateshead Quay regeneration has taken off. Foster and Partners’ £45m Gateshead Music Centre has planning consent and Laing is due ...