All Building articles in 1999 Issue 13
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Features
Sun, sea and service stations
British consultants are moving in on the Spanish leisure facilities construction market, currently as hot as the Mediterranean sun.
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The outsider
Stepping down as a regional director of Bovis to take the helm of a family-run firm is a brave move. But it is one that has left Cliff Bryant feeling supercharged .
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A little lesson in liability
Once the defects liability period of a JCT Minor Works Contract has expired, a client can no longer file a defects claim. That s what one builder thought but the Court of Appeal disagreed.
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Less than zero
Looking behind the headlines of the chancellor s recent budget, there is little to encourage the building industry and some changes, such as those to VAT, may lead to significant extra costs.
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It's a weird and wonderful world
Yorkshire's Earth Centre, the first of 14 landmark millennium projects to open, pushes the green message with a mix of bizarre, fantastic and startling sights.
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Comment
Not the grand opera
First person The refurbished Royal Opera House should be an exhilarating addition to Covent Garden. So why is it so dull?
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News
Housebuilders still upbeat despite cut in homes target
Prescott lowers government projection to 3.8 million to account for increase in cohabiting couples.
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Deregulation set to slash inspection cost
New rules will free local authority building inspectors to compete with private sector.
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Features
Contract lure
Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose explains why more and more construction workers are turning to fixed-term contracts.
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Construction management
The second of our occasional series explaining procurement methods takes a look at what is involved in construction management.
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Pros and coms
Faced with a large and complex project for BAA, QS Currie & Brown developed its own software package ProCom to keep track of cost changes. How does it work?
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News
Rugby to close down plants
Materials producer Rugby Group is closing two UK door and window manufacturing plants after the strength of the pound caused a 20% dive in joinery sales last year. The company is now in advanced discussions to sell its joinery and US distribution divisions, so it can focus on ...
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Contracting buoys Willmott Dixon profit
Growth in leisure and industrial markets helps group s pre-tax profit rise 12% to £2.52m.
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Breaking the speed limits
Adjudication offers rapid, cheap claims resolution, but has been hamstrung by doubts about how the courts would deal with it. After the latest pronouncement, however, everything is becoming clear.
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News
Lampl to keep helm when Bovis floats
Sir Frank hints that company may be listed under support services.
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Blue Circle fails to impress
Financial crises in emerging markets knocked Blue Circle s pre-tax profit down 7% to £317.6m before exceptionals in 1998. Sales at the cement behemoth were steady at £2.3bn. Asia s contribution to group profit slumped from £32.3m to £10m, although the group has used the market slump as an opportunity ...
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Portcullis MPs get back to basics
Swedish furniture-maker Ikea has been called in to advise on furniture for the new parliamentary building in a government attempt to slash costs on the controversial project. The move follows a government trade mission to Sweden led by deputy prime minister John Prescott, which visited Ikea s head office in ...
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Arup plans first 'integrated' office
Multidisciplinary firm to develop office campus HQ at Blythe Valley business park near Solihull.
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Features
Appointments
Contractors South-west contractor EBC Construction has appointed Mark Twomey and Lee Whitford quantity surveyors in the Plymouth office. Nigel Tonge has been promoted to group business development manager at Yorkshire-based Paul Caddick Holdings. Leeds-based Roberts has promoted John Scouller to commercial director. Shirley-Anne Fison ...
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Scottish loophole threatens Construction Act
A court's decision to freeze payment to a subcontractor could change industry legislation.