All Building articles in 1999 Issue 12
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Features
Spring thaw
Six months ago, the construction industry seemed set for a tough winter. Now, with those fears largely dispelled, Building analyses the regional construction scene.
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Comment
Spreading the word
Second opinion Now that we are talking to our clients, and even to our competitors, perhaps it is time to use some plain language.
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News
Polluters named
TWO construction firms were named among the worst polluters in England and Wales by the Environment Agency this week.Lancashire-based EOM Construction and Balfour Beatty were listed at number seven and 13 respectively in a hall of shame compiled by the Environment Agency.EOM Construction was fined £21 000 last year ...
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Features
Peter Mason
City opinion formers say he is a candidate for best chief executive in UK contracting, and the Square Mile has backed his Euro ambitions by tripling his firm's share price. So Amec's boss must be a happy man, mustn't he?
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Features
Law and its limits
Legislation to tackle payment problems are all well and good – but to avoid disappointment, don't expect too much from them.
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News
Hopkins' Saga staff HQ unveiled
The first pictures of the Saga headquarters, built by Schal, and approaching completion in Folkestone.
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Features
Hopkins' Saga staff HQ unveiled
The first pictures of the Saga headquarters, built by Schal, and approaching completion in Folkestone.
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Features
Are you experienced?
Jayne Burridge of the National Construction Careers Group explains how offering work-experience places can help your firm.
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News
Secrecy surrounds several Egan projects
SECRECY surrounds some projects set up to demonstrate the best-practice principles recommended in the Egan report.Although the number of demonstration projects submitted and approved is healthy – the first round attracted 48 worth a total of £1.4bn, and the second 35 worth £1.5bn – there are no details available on ...
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News
Seven vie for east London estates masterplan
Shoreditch trust selects firms to submit development "vision" for £200m regeneration scheme.
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News
New delay fears hit Royal Opera House
Balfour Kilpatrick asks for two-month extension in leaked letter to construction manager.
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Features
Mind the contractual gaps
Contracts are often the last thing to be checked before work begins – and sometimes they don't get checked at all. The result can be that parties sometimes need m'learned friends to tell them whether they exist at all.
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News
Contractors and clients unveil green measures
Laing, Tarmac and Railtrack reveal eco-friendly initiatives but Crane calls for more action.
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News
McAlpine civils ups margins
ALFRED McALPINE'S £200m-a-year civil engineering business is achieving 4.2% margins – almost three times the sector norm, the firm revealed last week.Reporting pre-tax profit up 41% to £34m for 1998, the firm said its civils arm had made £8.3m and has been set the target of contributing 30% of group ...
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News
Railtrack intervenes in supply chain
Company demands greater efficiency as it increases spending on upgrades by £10bn over the next 10 years.
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Features
Where the buck stops
When Oxford University's pharmacology department developed cracks in the plaster it sued the architect. So the architect sued the contractor – and lost. And thereby hangs a cautionary tale.
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News
Caborn boosts brown sites
PLANNING minister Richard Caborn has announced plans to restrict housing developments on greenfield land.Under the terms of new government planning guidance, local authorities will be able to release greenfield sites for development only if no suitable brownfield or recycled land is available.The plans are contained in a revised version of ...
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News
Builder fined for bogus FMB claim
A BUILDER HAS been fined £900 for falsely claiming to be a member of the Federation of Master Builders.Chris Roan, prosecuting for Cambridgeshire Trading Standards, said Brian Sharpe's Cambridge-based company, Abcam, had falsely advertised membership of the FMB in two editions of the Cambridge Yellow Pages.Roan told magistrates that Sharpe ...
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News
Laing blames Cardiff for results
Chastened contractor outlines more cautious approach after millennium rugby stadium disaster knocks £12.1m off profit, cutting it to £20.1m.
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Galliford/Christiani to win in Birmingham
Laing expected to be pipped at post for city's £113m, Grimshaw-designed Millennium Point project.