All Features articles – Page 664
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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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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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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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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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It’s all in the timing
Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose explains how to maximise your productivity
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Access all areas
New legislation requires service providers and owners of public buildings to make their premises easily accessible for disabled people. Great news for disabled people – and builders.
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Adjudication vs the law
For the first time, an adjudicator's decision has been challenged on legal grounds, and the court's verdict went some way to sorting out how adjudication relates to the law.
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'What's a megabyte, again?'
Small builders depend on reliable advice when they go shopping for IT. But do they get it? To find out, Building took a small contractor on an expedition to his local high street.
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Appointments
ContractorsGarry Hague has been appointed group communications manager at Willmott Dixon.Bob Headley has been appointed managing director of Doncaster-based MSI-Mech Construction. Mick Males has been made manufacturing manager and Sean Rhodes has become financial manager. Southern Electric Contracting has appointed Keith Lambert commercial manager.Gary Laxton has joined new interior contractor ...
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Artists in hard hats
The idea of bringing an artist into the construction team might seem a little surreal, but they can add an extra dimension to a design – with or without an architect.
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Constructionline: Is it worth it?
The list of approved contractors and consultants is one year old. Has it succeeded in its aim to simplify prequalification for public sector work? And will firms pay to renew their subscription?
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Materials life costs
The life-span of profiled metal claddings, and their susceptibility to corrosion, is tackled in the fourth in this series on the whole-life costs of materials, which is compiled by Building Performance Group to assist specifiers and clients.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Timber’s back in the frame
A damning TV documentary on timber-frame homes sent the English and Welsh market into a downward spiral. Now it’s making a comeback – but with a new twist.
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Woolf’s teeth
An important element of the Woolf reform is the idea of a pre-action protocol, which governs how parties should behave before litigation starts. Fail to follow it and the court can now take a big chunk out of you.