All Property Week articles in ICRE March 2001

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    Space-age visionary

    ICRE March 2001

    Twenty years ago, Andrew Chadwick won a competition to envisage 'The office of the future'. Today, he designs them, using 'space/time' and 'organisational modelling' methods.

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    The new world order

    ICRE March 2001

    Companies in the 'new economy' are having to come to terms with harsher conditions.

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    General knowledge

    ICRE March 2001

    Low margins and over-production are hitting the 'old economy' hard. Matt Cullen, the man in charge of the biggest property portfolio in the world, must drive costs down. He explains General Motors' worldwide strategy.

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    Selling off the family silver

    ICRE March 2001

    Are Britain's biggest companies wise to be talked into selling off their property? We investigate whether they are really creating dangerous problems for the future

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    Letter from Dilbertville

    ICRE March 2001

    Our Architect and space-planning guru reports from New York on the decline of US office design from corporate magnificence to corporate squalor

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    The costs of doing business

    ICRE March 2001

    The latest forecast from top quantity surveyor Gardiner & Theobald and the Johnson Controls/Property Week fourth-quarter 2000 UK Office Costs Index both indicate modest rises in tender prices and occupier costs. During this period of relative calm the main factor is labour cost increases and the shortage of skilled personnel

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    Deutsche auction

    ICRE March 2001

    Telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom is looking to its property to find funds for its expansion in mobile and network technology. Property Week meets the man who is masterminding the selling and sweating of its real estate assets

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    Covering their assets

    ICRE March 2001

    You've read the argument against 'corporate PFI'. Now read how Jones Lang LaSalle believes an outsourcing boom is about to take off.

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    Property's balancing act

    ICRE March 2001

    New accounting standards announced in late 1999 may now not come into play until 2002 but the implications are still huge.