All Features articles – Page 666
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St Ives gold
Since it opened six years ago, the Tate Gallery St Ives has attracted three times more visitors than anticipated. For many of them, the building is just as much of a draw as the exhibits.
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Rick Mather
Oregon-born, Camden-based Mather has joined the architectural superleague with his appointment to a high-profile project in the city he loves – London's South Bank Centre.
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The Seven Years War
This is a story about how a simple arbitration case became a seven-year siege that ended in the courts. And, in the struggle, some vital points about what an arbitrator can do were thrashed out.
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On with the show
Presentations needn't be an ordeal. The Institute of Personnel and Development's Angela Baron offers some tips on dazzling your audience.
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The Building top 50
If you care more about making money than turning it over, you ought to consider a career in housebuilding; if you want to be a contractor, maybe you should consider branching out into the services sector. That's the message in the latest survey of who's earning, selling and making what ...
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Appointments
Contractors Building and civil engineering contractor Dean & Dyball has promoted Adrian Dyball to managing director of construction. Barry Seeley and Peter Walton have been promoted to directors of Dover-based Barwick Construction. Alfred McAlpine Construction has made Andrew Nash business development manager for civil ...
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Not blind before the law
Lord Denning's career as a judge dedicated to common sense and the righting of wrongs is worth celebrating especially by companies in the construction industry.
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Child labour
Lawyer Ian Hunter explains how the new Employment Relations Bill will affect maternity and paternity rights.
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Whole-life cost model
Last week, Building published a call centre cost model; this week, Citex compares the whole-life capital and occupancy costs of two Midlands call centres and a model building. With 400 000 Britons now working in this sector and a predicted growth rate of 40% a year, there are valuable lessons ...
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The spin starts here
The government has appointed a PR company to "counteract inaccurate stories" in the press about Portcullis House. As the media campaign begins, Building asks members of the public what they think of the £250m MPs' building.
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John McCarthy
He trained as a carpenter but before you could say "self-starter", the McCarthy & Stone boss had earned his first million. Now his retirement homebuilding business makes profits that turn contractors green with envy.
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Try a little tenderness
Clients need care and attention. What's more, they are more likely than ever before to decide that they can live without you. So, how do you retain their affections?
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Can you manage it?
Project management in construction has a lot to learn from science and engineering, where the manager aims to understand the client totally.
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Meet the mystery shopper
How seriously should you take Andrew Goodall, the 36-year-old unknown who tried to buy Alfred McAlpine? It depends if you are next on his list.
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Salford wins silver
Salford's steel-clad arts centre may not shimmer quite like Gehry's Guggenheim, but the complex lottery scheme is successfully attracting development and staying within its budget.
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Off the shelf
Sending CAD designs via e-mail and the Internet is hardly new,but now Sainsbury's is insisting its consultants use its new system rather than the post or couriers or suffer the consequences.
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The speed trap
Clients often assume they can demand that contractors finish by Christmas, variations or no variations. In fact, they can t, unless the contractor agrees and then the bill may be bigger than they anticipated.
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Macob, Outwing – now A&D
On 23 June, Judge Wilcox passed down what could be a landmark ruling when he gave a summary judgment in favour of A&D, a subcontractor seeking enforcement of an adjudication decision.
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Appointments
Contractors Derek Price has been made commercial director of MJC Construction. Housebuilders Thirlstone Homes has appointed Nick Mansfield managing director of its new Wokingham office. Keith Ireland has become managing director in the firm s Byfleet office. Consultants Malcolm Brummer , a ...