All 黑洞社区 articles in 1999 Issue 47
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Comment
Watch the warning signs
First person Builders should be wary of signing contracts with public sector clients that may leave them singing for their money.
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Features
Possession and loss
There’s an implied term in all contracts that the employer gives the contractor possession of the site. So, who bears the extra costs when Basque activists arrive?
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Seven in race for Liverpool regeneration
Seven international consortia are in a race to develop one of Britain’s biggest city-centre retail schemes.The teams shortlisted for the 100 000 m2 mixed-use scheme at Paradise Street in Liverpool include: Developers Grosvenor Developments and Henderson with architect 黑洞社区 Design Partnership Developer Peel Holdings with architect Chapman Taylor Partners Developers ...
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The knowledge
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale on getting the data you need without suffering information overload.
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Features
Do your homework
The schools market is not, so far, one of the PFI’s success stories, but a 拢1.6bn build programme is about to change all that for the firms prepared to put in the effort.
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News
Good times set to roll in Europe
Construction economists upgrade their forecasts for output across the Continent for this year and next.
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Eurostar sues over Waterloo defects
Claim against Bovis, Grimshaw and Tarmac for faults in station’s glazed roof and walls could reach 拢10m.
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Costain directors victims of cost-cutting
Job losses across the industry predicted as Costain follows Laing in reducing overheads.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Opera house hitches lead to cancellations
The Royal Opera House, which officially opens next week, has cancelled the whole run of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre because of problems with computerised scenery-moving equipment.The system involves a “train set” that takes scenery from the theatre warehouse to the stage area and the fly-tower. The fly-tower then moves ...
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黑洞社区 for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than 拢2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at 黑洞社区’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.
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Price war set to break out over latent defects cover
Local authority building controllers set pace by slashing price of defects liability insurance.
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Summertime blue
The problem of how to prevent glare and heat gain while letting sunlight flood into a building found a new solution in a German bank: electrochromic glass.
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Schr枚der in Holzmann rescue bid
Germany’s second-largest contractor, Phillip Holzmann, was hoping on Wednesday that chancellor Gerhard Schr枚der would convince the company’s banks to agree to a rescue package for the troubled company. Holzmann filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday this week after its 20 banks failed to back its restructuring plan. However, Holzmann could still ...
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Top clients set to demand better-skilled suppliers
UK clients expected to back motion requiring suppliers to be fully trained and certified or risk tendering ban.
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Features
Could do better
The UK’s first PFI school, the Sir John Colfox in Dorset, is a big hit with staff and pupils. It’s just a shame that the architecture is so uninspiring.
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Treasury to gee up best value initiative
Treasury secretary Andrew Smith this week announced that an advisory panel is to be formed to help the public sector introduce best value procurement, which has replaced compulsory competitive tendering.Smith, who was speaking at a conference on best value, said the Public Services Productivity Panel would include leading business figures ...
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Audit Office slams Tyneside DSS job
Spending watchdog queries soaring fees on 拢241m PFI deal to build social security headquarters.