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FeaturesCost model update, February 2005
In this special cost model update, Davis Langdon looks at 18 building types – including offices, stadiums, theatres, schools, hospitals, housing and supermarkets – and adds the latest figures and current cost drivers
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FeaturesI am fashion
Jonathan Meades used his first column of the year to bemoan the passing of the “traditional” architect – the flamboyantly bow-tied, floppy-haired chap in deafening tweeds and yellow socks who mostly lived in the 19th holes of golf courses on a diet of gin and tonic, occasionally venturing forth to ...
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NewsBuro Happold elects chairman for new era
Engineering consultancy Buro Happold is set for a new era with the election of Rod MacDonald as chairman
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BW Interiors bullish in tough fit-out market
Surrey-based fit-out specialist BW Interiors is aiming to increase its turnover from last year’s £19.5m to £27m in 2005 by riding on the back of a recent recovery in the office market.
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NewsEx-Benson chief blames board for firm’s collapse
Alistair Sloan, former chief executive, hits out over ‘insane’ way the contractor’s demise was handled
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CommentSchal’s Stalingrad
The struggle between Bovis and Schal for the £400m BBC Broadcasting House redevelopment was a decisive moment in the recent history of UK construction
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FeaturesBig in Japan (and China, the USA, Spain, Italy, Germany…)
David Chipperfield has quietly built up a highly exportable architectural practice, with competition wins all over the world. Now, the UK portfolio is belatedly taking shape – if clients can stop project-managing for long enough
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FeaturesOne mean city
Big construction in Moscow is a muscle market dominated by players with political connections, fast money and armoured cars. So what chance does a British firm have of getting a piece of the action?
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NewsWimpey defies City fears with 19% profit hike
Volume housebuilder reassures the City with strong annual results and signs of cautious upturn in UK market
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Boss Graham Rice is latest to quit Heery after restructure
THe managing director of Heery International, the construction management arm of Balfour Beatty, is to leave the company following a restructuring of the firm.
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The man with the golden pen
The pioneer of lightweight and membrane structures, whose 1960s designs still look futuristic today, 79-year-old German inventor Frei Otto has won the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
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CommentFall-out shelter
Will we ever have an industry in which well-run subcontractors do not continually face financial ruin because they happen to work for a contractor that goes bust?
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CommentMind and will
In a landmark case, a council architect is on trial for manslaughter, after an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease killed seven people. The verdict will be pivotal …
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CommentException to the rule
If you win a case against a limited company that goes bust usually you can’t pursue the owners for costs. But in this case that’s exactly what did happen …
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Biting back
The Latham review into payment provisions under the Construction Act recommends removing the need for a payer’s notice. In fact, what it really needs is more teeth
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CommentNo more party games
The interface agreement is a neat device that PFI special purpose vehicles can use to avoid ‘pass the parcel’ between subcontractors. However, the rules are getting complicated
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Not so disastrous?
After Building put its foot in it with the 10 ‘disastrous’ building projects, our readers kick back