All 好色先生TV articles in 2001 issue 45
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Treading water
It's a little tougher at the top, according to the 2001 Hays Montrose/好色先生TV executive salary guide. But with salaries static, many companies are sweetening the pill with increased perks. Victoria Madine and Alex Smith peer into the wage envelope.
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Transformer
The Rochford Boiler House power station in Essex has always been an impressive building to look at. Now it's a desirable place to live, after 拢2.7m was spent converting it into funky apartments
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Can I have some more?
When it comes to adding interest on to adjudication claims, justice has nothing to do with it. Confused? Just be glad you're not an adjudicator
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War poetry
Crashing metallic forms representing a battle-torn globe make up Daniel Libeskind's first British offering. And yet, says Martin Spring, the Imperial War Museum North is also an ode to curvature and tricks of the light.
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Lifesaver
The 953-bed Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals ever built in a single phase, will open its doors to patients this month. The 拢170m facility, which replaces two existing hospitals, is at the edge of the city next to the University of East Anglia. Built by ...
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Solution in sight for Laing's NPL nightmare
LAING expects to reach an agreed solution with the DTI before Christmas over problems at the 拢300m National Physical Laboratory PFI project in west London.
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A letter from Hong Kong
How has Britain's former colony fared since it was handed back to the People's Republic? Here's the view on the ground of one QS who is working there
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Home shopping
Architect Piercy Conner is to build a fully operational "micro-flat" in a window at Selfridges' London store.The practice is looking for two key workers, or young professionals, to live in the flat for two weeks as part of a campaign to highlight the need for affordable housing in London. They ...
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Rosebud Heights
Foster and Partners has been called in to complete a New York skyscraper begun by newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst, the man who inspired Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane in 1928. The architect has designed a high-tech 42-storey tower of 80,000 m2 to go with the six-storey stone-faced base built ...
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Spending watchdog to give thumbs-up to PFI
PFI is due to receive a major boost from a report to be published later this month by spending watchdog the National Audit Office.
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The skyscraper of the future
… is taking shape as the best minds in structural engineering unite to work out what design changes will improve safety in tall buildings. Andy Pearson finds out what they've decided so far
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Femme fatale
Once rumoured to have called for the bosses of English Heritage to have their heads put on spikes, Judith Mayhew is a ferocious fighter for the development of the City. Mark Leftly meets London's top planner.
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Egan lines up Simon Murray to update report
Former Railtrack boss tipped for Rethinking Construction sequel, despite concern among forum members.
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DTI plans to off-load quality mark
The government's quality mark scheme could be handed over to the industry and funded by contractors' subscriptions.
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Two go mad in Devon
Why do people pretend that arbitrators are wigless judges? As the parties to Pillar vs Edwards found out, you can pay through the nose for very rough justice
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Walsall to set PFI design standard
Four architects are competing for a 拢45m hospital in Walsall that is to be used as a yardstick for design quality in PFI healthcare projects, writes Stuart Black.
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Dear Robert
Hays Montrose's Robert Smith throws light on permits for working as a property agent in the UK, and suggests striking a balance at the Christmas party
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Two's a crowd
Tough developers who try to cut costs by getting Sir Raphael Bowtie to do the concept and Cheapskate & Prune the execution are just asking for trouble
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Cost update:
Input costs and output prices are both on the way down, according to Davis Langdon & Everest, while plumbers are enjoying a wage rise