All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 2003 issue 47 – Page 2

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    Ray O'Rourke sets out vision for world domination

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    Chief executive puts Terminal 5 workers at front line of plans to change face of construction industry.

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    GMB starts property sell-off to cut debts

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The heavily indebted GMB union is in talks over the sale of its headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London, as part of a wider property review

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    Legalised coupling

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.

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    Full marks for construction training

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).

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    Lessons in civility

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Construction is an altogether more complex process than it used to be – and this raises tricky questions about how firms should treat each other

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    Urban design codes to be used on five city sites

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    £100m English Cities Fund will use 'community coding' to help drive government's regeneration agenda.

  • Features

    A change of pace

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    In this month's market round-up, we report that growth is likely to slow down over the next three months – but don't worry, it should pick up in a couple of years or so …

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    Capital Project Consultancy loses Lion Plaza role

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Firm's position as construction manager is 'rescinded' at £230m City of London development.

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    CABE rounds on 'dreadful' PFI hospitals

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    CABE has published a report attacking the standard of architecture in PFI hospitals and has picked four teams to formulate the principles that should be applied to future schemes.

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    Broken homes

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.

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    Wonders & blunders

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    I take a dim view of 5000-year-old project management, but look kindly on a 21st-century model of good practice

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    The big cover up

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    This crowd-pleasing glass roof is the centrepiece of BPR Architects' design for an extension to a Middlesex University building. The £6.5m development in Hendon, north London, will enclose an underused courtyard and provide an atrium for the main reception. BRP design has just received planning permission.

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    Beauty spot

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    Architect RMJM has been appointed to design and engineer three projects at Newcastle College worth £16m, including this £8.8m "beauty, sport and tourism" building. The practice will also renovate and extend the college's 1960s concert hall and the 19th-century Rye Hill House. The £18m Performance Academy is under construction ...

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    Foster wins Hastings battle

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has been chosen by the Hastings and Bexhill Taskforce to draw up designs for a showcase development at Pelham Square in Hastings, East Sussex. The £50m scheme will have offices and a hotel in a commercial development centred around the large civic space in the square. ...

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    Payment barrier

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The claimant, Dean & Dyball, had retained the defendant consulting engineers to design an impounding gate across the entrance of a marina. The defendant designed a gate that was manufactured and installed in the entrance to the marina, but that never worked properly. The claimant brought a claim for breach ...

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    Benson Group gets back in black

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Benson Group expects a rise in turnover to bring it back into the black after a £700,000 loss in 2002

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    Iraqi architect to do home work

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    An Iraqi architect in London has formed a loose alliance with UK consultants to pitch for reconstruction work in his homeland

  • Features

    Arcangels

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Rome Has nearly 1000 churches.

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    Prescott gives go-ahead to animal lab

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week granted planning permission for a vivisection laboratory in Cambridge, overruling advice from an inspector.

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    Shuttleworth quits Foster to go it alone

    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Ken Shuttleworth, the man behind the designs of the Swiss Re tower and the Greater London Authority's City Hall, is leaving Foster and Partners after 29 years