All Features articles – Page 661
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Andrew Wolstenholme
Six months after ditching half a dozen of its framework contractors and consultants, can BAA's construction director regain the trust of the industry?
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ADR: a costly alternative?
New rules encourage negotiation as an alternative to litigation to solve contractual disputes, but uncertainty about recovering costs is hampering take-up of it.
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The PFI’s poisoned chalice
Due diligence requirements in PFI contracts have created a lucrative role for consultants: checking. The only problem is that if anything you checked goes wrong, you may be liable for 100% of the damages.
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Just the job
The Aukett Associates director tells Nancy Cavill why he gave up teaching, and why, like a swan, he never loses his cool.
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Who's going to pay?
Does the Scheme for Construction Contracts give adjudicators the power to make one side pay the other's costs in an adjudication? The jury is still out.
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Tron Theatre, Glasgow
RMJM Scotland has just completed the final phase of a £5m refurbishment of Glasgow s Tron Theatre in a suitably dramatic style. The theatre was created in 1982 from a tight-knit cluster of medieval, Georgian and Victorian buildings. The most recent work includes the refurbishment of the main auditorium, ...
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Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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Dirty, dangerous work
A consultant recently went down for almost £20m after a judge found that it had negligently advised its client as to how much remediation was required in a development. What are the lessons for others?
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Cost study: Teaching and research facility
In the first completed PFI project in higher education, a listed Victorian hospital building was converted into an advanced teaching and research facility. The 25-year service contract called for detailed life-cycle costing of materials. Compiled by Jarvis and HLM Architects
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Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
A new restaurant forms the centrepiece of the £4.5m refurbishment of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk, the historic complex of maltings converted in 1967 for the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears. Designed by Penoyre & Prasad Architects, the 100-seat restaurant fits on to a mezzanine floor ...
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Three of the best
Refurbishment projects in Cheshire, Glasgow and Suffolk all feature sympathetic modern interventions in historic buildings.
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Free isn't always fair
Beware the exclusion clause – you can't always rely on the Unfair Contract Terms Act to get you out of trouble.
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All systems go together
The former head of IT at Bovis, explains how interoperable computing systems could help construction teams speak the same language.
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Farrell’s anguish in China
In the race for Beijing’s £300m theatre, Terry Farrell bust his budget and spent 18 months at the drawing-board. So why was he pipped at the post?
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Welcome to year zero
The Woolf reforms have ushered in a new era in construction law. What they have done, in effect, is legislate for virtue – and, as a couple of recent cases show, after a few fingers have been burned it might just work.
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Parental responsibility
Do parent company guarantees mean that you never need to worry about your partner going bust? Well, as you might have guessed, there's no such thing as 100% security.
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Let there be light
The provision of efficient and cost-effective lighting, both natural and artificial, is a major factor in avoiding sick building syndrome.
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Married to the job
Edgar Gonzalez and Cécile Brisac were already working day and night – so how did the couple cope when they won an international competition to design a £20m museum in Sweden?
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Readers tour JLE stations
In the third British Steel/Building tour, 20 visitors were shown around Bermondsey and Southwark Stations by the architects.