All Features articles – Page 657
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Cost update
This quarterly analysis looks at changes to material prices, labour costs and work item rates.
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Lawyers' love letters
"Letters of intent" are there to get the works started while the contract gets sorted out. But if things go wrong before that happens, all sorts of wonderful things can happen. Wonderful for lawyers, that is.
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Love me tender
When competitive tenders are sought in the public sector, an implied contract exists whereby the prospective employer agrees to treat all tenderers fairly. Might this not also apply to the private sector?
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Post modern
Architect Alan J Smith has turned Newcastle's Victorian head post office into one of the most comprehensive mixed-use developments of our times.
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Work and playstation
Fledgeling construction manager Exterior has been given the chance to prove itself on a £20m headquarters for computer games giant Electronic Arts. How is it coping?
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The problem of the scale
Churchill described Britain and America as "divided by a common language". So what chance has the design team when architects and engineers can't agree on the scale of their drawings?
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Room for review
Is the UK complying with European competition law? A recent judgment by the European Court throws doubt on the UK's implementation of procurement directives.
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Curtain up on £214m opera house revamp
Remodelled house to open on time but six performances cancelled because of equipment problems.
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It’s all in the planning
The CDM Regulations impose stringent health and safety obligations on planning supervisors, so construction contracts must include clauses that help them do their jobs.
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About time, too
In his third and final article on how an architect is supposed to decide extensions of time, Dominic Helps reveals the identities of the parties, the facts of the case, and the decision of the court.
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Bring on the accolades
There are prizes for everything these days, so why not for law publications that help us understand all the rules and regulations bearing down on us?
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Action man
Electrician Pete Dyer left Croydon to join a group expedition to Mongolia – which is a long way to go to organise the construction of a clinic out of straw.
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Appointments
ContractorsTim Philpott has been appointed health and safety manager at Surrey-based Bancourt Construction.Martin Lunn has been promoted to manager of the design and build team at Higgins.EBC Construction has promoted John Crowhurst to site foreman. Paul Lakin has joined the firm as site manager. David Chudley and Martin Knott have ...
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Could do better
The UK’s first PFI school, the Sir John Colfox in Dorset, is a big hit with staff and pupils. It’s just a shame that the architecture is so uninspiring.
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Summertime blue
The problem of how to prevent glare and heat gain while letting sunlight flood into a building found a new solution in a German bank: electrochromic glass.
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Building for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than £2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at Building’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge
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Do your homework
The schools market is not, so far, one of the PFI’s success stories, but a £1.6bn build programme is about to change all that for the firms prepared to put in the effort.
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The knowledge
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale on getting the data you need without suffering information overload.