All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 2004 issue 44 – Page 3

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    Kent fears for design quality

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Regeneration experts have highlighted the need for high-quality design in sustainable communities in the South-east.

  • The five towers hotel – only four of which can be seen at a time.
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    Dealing with libya

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The moment when Tony Blair shook hands with Muammar Gadaffi, bygones were officially bygones and an entire country was opened up for British firms to exploit. But what are the realities of doing business in Libya? We visited the former pariah state to find out

  • Features

    Cost effective

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    oanne Knightley is combining work and study with a distance learning BSc in quantity surveying. Here she tells us how she gets it to add up …

  • Comment

    Reasons to be considered

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Tame made an application under Section 68 of the 1996 Arbitration Act to challenge an arbitrator’s award. More particularly, Tame sought to rely on the reasons published by the arbitrator separately from the award expressly on terms that no use should be made of them in any proceeding relating to ...

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    Civil engineers? Are they more polite then?

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Three-quarters of the UK population do not know what civil engineering is, according to an Institution of Civil Engineers survey published this week.

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    Foster’s City Hall starts to crack

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Glass panels at City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority near Tower Bridge, have started cracking two years after it was completed, leading the GLA to call for an explanation from suppliers,

  • Comment

    Thatcher’s child

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).

  • Features

    So you think it’s boring, huh?

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyors get to say ‘I was part of that’ about some of the world’s most high-profile construction projects. And that’s not all that makes the job interesting, as three QSs told us

  • Precious
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Historian Francesco da Mosto picks two faces of La Serenissima: one a stunning fusion of styles and the other a tasteless cake

  • Comment

    Blind eyes and bloody kids

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate

  • NRM's Riverbank hotel in London
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    Engineers merge to take on the big boys

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Engineering consultants NRM and Jan Bobrowski and Partners this week merged to improve their performance in a tough market

  • Comment

    Beyond Kyoto

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.

  • Jowell: Pressure to cap casinos
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    Jowell hedges bets on casino bill

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Culture secretary Tessa Jowell has conceded that the number of casinos built in the UK could be capped, after fears that a rise in problem gambling would outweigh the regeneration benefits of developments

  • Comment

    Unite behind unitisation

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).

  • One small, skinny mollusc please
    Features

    Marks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat

  • Phil Hope
    Features

    Talking balls with the minister

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.

  • Features

    Market forecast: Back on track

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    In this new series,We report that tender prices are on the up – including London, where work is getting back on track

  • Comment

    Back issues

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Ripples from far-off countries and the morality of doing up pubs …

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    CABE under attack at select committee hearing

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Design watchdog on the defensive after critical submissions over conflicts of interest and accountability

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    Atkins plans move into Libyan market

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Atkins is planning to open an office in Libya by next summer.