All Features articles – Page 661
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Is this what Rogers means?
Mixed-use. Community. Environment. Brownfield. Clay parrots. Manchester’s Northern Quarter is set to turn Lord Rogers’ taskforce report into colourful commercial reality.
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Can Prescott save the village?
It’s decision time for John Prescott. The report on what went wrong with the Millennium Village is on his desk. Will he choose to resuscitate the model for 21st-century housing, or leave us with just another estate?
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Stocking thriller
Shoppers will slip through a fishnet of steel rods to reach Manchester’s M&S store when a sexy new footbridge linking it with the Arndale opens this year.
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Cullinan’s funky new campus opens for term
Tarmac has delivered this striking university campus on time and within its £33m budget this week – but will it make the grade as an Egan demonstration project?
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You know his vision…
… now see his practice. His firm's three buildings in the heart of Berlin are the very model of mixed-use, high-density design – as well as being stunning examples of the architect's art.
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Appointments
ContractorsBangor-based Watkin Jones Construction has appointed Nigel Tonge group business development manager.MJ Gleeson has appointed Steve Davies managing director of its property division.Roofing and cladding contractor Rogerson Group (Roofing) has appointed Bob Beattie managing director.HousebuildersTaywood Homes has appointed Claire Crawford field sales manager for Scotland.John Ireland has been appointed group ...
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Discovering Columbus
In 1996, Ove Arup Partnership began exploring the uncharted waters of document management systems. The team was unimpressed by what it found. Then an expert from its own computer arm rang. The result is a gift to the industry.
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The cost of a holiday
The Working Time Regulations cause difficulties for companies that engage workers whose pay or hours fluctuate. On what basis do you work out their holiday pay?
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Cost study: Holiday Inn Express
The client wanted a budget hotel built for a fixed price with minimum risk. Thanks to the innovative use of a special purpose vehicle company, it was able to start operating the new Holiday Inn Express at Wellingborough after just 30 weeks on site
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Experimenting with drugs
Pharmaceuticals projects are ridiculously attractive: rapidly growing, secure, high-margin work immune to the ups and downs of the business cycle. The only catch is that they’re a “bloody nightmare” to get.
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The producers from hell
The Beeb got two feminists and a couple of builders to live together for a week, then filmed the ensuing scrap. But did they, in addition, do what they could to make sure it was as nasty as possible?
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Just the job
The Chinese project manager helping Ove Arup build business in Asia tells Elaine Knutt what brought him to Manchester.
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Rough justice
A quality mark scheme with a consumer complaint element will hit cowboy builders hard. Alas, it will do the same to legitimate outfits.
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PFI procurement
Building’s series of articles on different procurement routes continues with procurement for private finance initiative projects.
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The trouble with set-off
Construction firms have shown little reticence in using set-off provisions in contracts as a way of promoting positive cash flow. Adjudicators, like the courts, should be on the lookout for this iniquitous practice.
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1999 architects' fees survey
Architects' charges are closer to physiotherapists' than solicitors'. A new study by Mirza and Nacey Research shows that fees are inching up, but after seven years spent qualifying, is an average of £55 an hour a fair rate?
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Appointments
Contractor Birse Construction has appointed Martin Peat managing director, building. He will also join the Birse board. Housebuilder Ronnie Jacobs , previously with Persimmon Homes Scotland, has joined Miller Homes as regional director for west Scotland. Consultants Michael Albright , previously chairman and chief executive of Centex ...
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Spotlight on brickwork
Lead times Although lead times are now steady at six weeks, rising enquiry and workload levels are expected to boost them in the autumn. Brickwork contractors report little difficulty in procuring materials, but cite the lack of qualified operatives as the critical factor in determining lead times. As ...
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Together in electric dreams
IT Construction Best Practice promises to acquaint the small contractor with modern technology. Is this the advice that they've been waiting for, or is the FMB right in pointing to weaknesses in its approach?
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Lead times
Workload is healthy as we approach the millennium, but as Mace's update shows, lead times are mostly unaffected. compiled by Mace and Gardiner & Theobald