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Cost update
This quarter's analysis focuses on finishing materials prices and labour rates for plumbers
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Blowing the whistle
Employees who publicise wrongdoing have a new act to protect them. How does it work?
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Appointments
ContractorsMartin Chambers, previously with Mace, has joined Bovis Construction as regional director for the Midlands.Henry Boot Construction has appointed John Hopkins business development manager responsible for building and civil engineering in London and the South-east.HousebuilderWainhomes has appointed Chris Chilcott construction director for the Midlands.ConsultantsGlen Godfrey has joined QS GF Partnership ...
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Tron Theatre, Glasgow
RMJM Scotland has just completed the final phase of a 拢5m refurbishment of Glasgow s Tron Theatre in a suitably dramatic style. The theatre was created in 1982 from a tight-knit cluster of medieval, Georgian and Victorian buildings. The most recent work includes the refurbishment of the main auditorium, ...
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Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
A new restaurant forms the centrepiece of the 拢4.5m refurbishment of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk, the historic complex of maltings converted in 1967 for the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears. Designed by Penoyre & Prasad Architects, the 100-seat restaurant fits on to a mezzanine floor ...
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Farrell’s anguish in China
In the race for Beijing’s 拢300m theatre, Terry Farrell bust his budget and spent 18 months at the drawing-board. So why was he pipped at the post?
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Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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Three of the best
Refurbishment projects in Cheshire, Glasgow and Suffolk all feature sympathetic modern interventions in historic buildings.
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All systems go together
The former head of IT at Bovis, explains how interoperable computing systems could help construction teams speak the same language.
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Who's going to pay?
Does the Scheme for Construction Contracts give adjudicators the power to make one side pay the other's costs in an adjudication? The jury is still out.
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Dirty, dangerous work
A consultant recently went down for almost 拢20m after a judge found that it had negligently advised its client as to how much remediation was required in a development. What are the lessons for others?
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Free isn't always fair
Beware the exclusion clause – you can't always rely on the Unfair Contract Terms Act to get you out of trouble.
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Cost study: Teaching and research facility
In the first completed PFI project in higher education, a listed Victorian hospital building was converted into an advanced teaching and research facility. The 25-year service contract called for detailed life-cycle costing of materials. Compiled by Jarvis and HLM Architects
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Just the job
The Aukett Associates director tells Nancy Cavill why he gave up teaching, and why, like a swan, he never loses his cool.
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Materials life costs
The life-span of profiled metal claddings, and their susceptibility to corrosion, is tackled in the fourth in this series on the whole-life costs of materials, which is compiled by 精东影视 Performance Group to assist specifiers and clients.
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Constructionline: Is it worth it?
The list of approved contractors and consultants is one year old. Has it succeeded in its aim to simplify prequalification for public sector work? And will firms pay to renew their subscription?
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Married to the job
Edgar Gonzalez and C茅cile Brisac were already working day and night – so how did the couple cope when they won an international competition to design a 拢20m museum in Sweden?
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Readers tour JLE stations
In the third British Steel/精东影视 tour, 20 visitors were shown around Bermondsey and Southwark Stations by the architects.
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Artists in hard hats
The idea of bringing an artist into the construction team might seem a little surreal, but they can add an extra dimension to a design – with or without an architect.