All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 2002 issue 47

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  • Features

    Skills card may be extended in crackdown on illegal workers

    2002-12-03T17:03:00Z

    Head of Construction Skills Certification Scheme to present case to Home Office for its use in other industries.

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    Staff bail out High-Point Rendel

    2002-12-02T16:58:00Z

    Directors and management step in to save troubled Birmingham consultant by taking pay delays and offering loans.

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    Wakey, wakey

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Wakey, wakey: This £30m office and residential development in Wakefield has been granted planning permission. The Cartwright Pickard-designed scheme includes 219 canalside apartments and 155,000 ft2 of office space. A hotel, health club, cafe, bars and rooftop restaurant are also included in the plans. The practice is also producing the ...

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    Space station

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    In the planet's most barren landscape, a highly-trained crew of scientists are on a single mission: to track inter-stellar activity using the world's largest telescope. But they need somewhere to live …

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    Sharewatch

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 22 November 2002

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    Shanghai surprise

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Shanghai surprise: London Eye architect Marks Barfield is working on plans for a wheel in Shanghai that will be 25 m bigger than its UK predecessor – and therefore the biggest in the world. It will be 160 m in diameter (see picture). Director David Marks and John Roberts, director ...

  • Comment

    Reflex reaction

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Critics of the public–private partnership dwell on fledgling problems, but these are nothing that can't be solved. Better that than no new schools or hospitals …

  • Features

    Paper man

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Praised by Time magazine as one of the great innovators of the 21st century, the enigmatic Shigeru Ban divides his time between designing prestigious commissions and shelters for the destitute. Marcus Fairs met the Japanese architect who does it all with paper tubes.

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    Legalaid

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    This month our free musketeers reach into the void of adjudication decisions, examine the effects of the aggregates levy on a contractor's tender, and warn of the dangers that lurk in agreeing to pay a percentage fee to a consultant

  • Features

    Lead times: Piling

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Lead times are fairly balanced in the final quarter of the year, with an equal number of sectors lengthening and shortening deliveries, according to Mace. And overleaf, Gardiner & Theobald throws the spotlight on piling …

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    Just the job

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Simon Wallace, Turner & Townsend's head of management consultancy, talks about his new role and why the next wave of consultants are likely to come from construction

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    This week, an Archigram architect drags out 1960s neckwear, check out the toilet where you can't be caught short, and tourists beware in Grosvenor Square

  • Features

    What's going on, John?

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    One minute Prescott is slamming housebuilders for the shortage of new homes, the next he's hitting key developments with planning demands so tough that the schemes screech to a halt. No wonder the industry is a little dazed and confused …

  • Comment

    An unprecedented future

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Much is said about our industry learning from its experiences, yet here we are throwing away a wealth of knowledge on points of law and principle

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    To be Frank

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Realising an unwieldy Frank Gehry design means learning to work the Gehry way, as the team on his Dundee cancer therapy centre quickly found out. And although the architect's first UK building is surprisingly small, the difficulties it caused were anything but …

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    Prescott under fire

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott has more to worry about right now than his deteriorating relationship with housebuilders (pages 24-25). Planning chaos is a political sideshow alongside the main drama of the firefighters' dispute and the threat – amid a London teachers' strike – of a new winter of discontent. But, although no ...

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    Housebuilders question high inflation figures

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders claimed this week that the cost of new houses is rising at a much lower rate than the 30% inflation figure recently reported by the Halifax building society.

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    Subcontractors' fees have risen, says report

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Medium-sized construction companies are paying increased fees to subcontractors but are benefiting from fuller order books, according to an unofficial Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey.

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    Planning for failure?

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders are stuck between a rock and a hard place. John Prescott is blaming them for not building enough homes, while at the same time government planning policy is thwarting their attempts to do so

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    Five lessons in entrepreneurship

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    A good idea is not enough – although it's a good start. Ingenuity and hard work are just as important as a good idea. Having said that, a simple idea can reap rich rewards. A good idea also requires persistence. If you lose heart in your idea, you won't have ...