All Building articles in 1999 Issue 18
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Features
Spotlight on steelwork
Lead times Lead times for steelwork have plummeted over the past six months. From the dizzy heights of 16 weeks in the fourth quarter of 1998 the highest in eight years lead times are now only 12 weeks. For projects of less than 100 tonnes, short ...
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Comment
Pees in a pod
First person Bathrooms prefabricated in the 1960s were a flop, despite cutting-edge design. But were they merely ahead of their time?
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Features
Keeping up standards
The Joint Contracts Tribunal has published JCT98, the successor to JCT80 and all its amendments and supplements. So, what difference will it make?
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Features
Just the limit
How effective are clauses that limit a consultant s liability to less than his or her total insurance cover? Until now this has been a grey area, but a recent decision has cast some light on how the courts will assess them.
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News
Howarth promises quality
Arts minister Alan Howarth last week heralded a new spirit in Whitehall that would drive government towards appropriate and creative high-quality modern architecture . Speaking at a Civic Trust dinner on 29 April, Howarth called on architects and planners to work with politicians to improve the built environment ...
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Features
Motor homes
Ove Arup's ex-Jaguar man wants to use automated car production techniques to take factory built housing a step beyond current models.
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Features
Our friends in the North
The Pathfinder Group report on the Scottish construction sector sees the new parliament as a potential champion for the industry.
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Features
From factory to Hackney
Fully fitted-out modules, prefabricated in York and craned into place, have made their first appearance in a multistorey housing scheme.
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News
Electricians set to strike at Royal Opera House
New Balfour Kilpatrick offer close to being rejected on £220m project.New Balfour Kilpatrick offer close to being rejected on £220m project.
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Features
Primary colours
A new prefab school extension could help the government hit its target for 2500 extra classrooms. And the first one now is in place, providing a bright and stimulating environment for 5- to 11-year-olds in Colchester.
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News
Clients forum pushes whloe-life costing
The Construction Clients Forum is telling members to use whole-life costing to judge best value for all construction projects. The forum will send a letter to its members explaining the benefits of examining the maintenance costs of building components as well as their initial cost. The letter is ...
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Features
Contractors break up their
Conglomerates are out; core businesses are in. Over the next eight pages, Building talks to the bosses of four of the UK s biggest contractors and finds out how they re getting back to what they do best.
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News
McAlpine boss fends off investor putsch
Whitehead to maintain strategy as Phillips & Drew backs mystery buyer.
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News
Consultants desperate to block procurement changes
Treasury stands firm over prime contracting, which CIC negotiating team denounces as laughably naïve .
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News
Clients blast industry's partnering record
Slough Estates' Rimmer and Railtrack's Murray slate contractors for not understanding process.
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News
Ex-Mowlem chair Beck to head Railtrack
Ex-Mowlem chairman Sir Philip Beck is to become chairman of Railtrack from July. Sir Philip, who left Mowlem in 1995, has been a non-executive director of Railtrack since the same year and succeeds Sir Robert Horton. A Cambridge-educated engineer, Sir Philip became chairman of Mowlem in 1979 and oversaw a ...
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News
Leaks put BT back two months
Facade and water ingress headaches at pioneering Essex office will mean delay in occupation and estimated extra costs of £3m.
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News
Cala buyout team awaits Miller move
Managers on tenterhooks as rival ponders increased bid for Scots housebuilder.