All Building articles in 1999 Issue 18

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  • Features

    Spotlight on steelwork

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Features

    Sickening

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Taking sickies costs UK industry billions of pounds a year. The Institute of Personnel and Development s Angela Baron explains how employers can wean staff off the habit.

  • Comment

    Pees in a pod

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    First person Bathrooms prefabricated in the 1960s were a flop, despite cutting-edge design. But were they merely ahead of their time?

  • Features

    Keeping up standards

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    The Joint Contracts Tribunal has published JCT98, the successor to JCT80 and all its amendments and supplements. So, what difference will it make?

  • Features

    Just the limit

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Howarth promises quality

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Features

    Motor homes

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Ove Arup's ex-Jaguar man wants to use automated car production techniques to take factory built housing a step beyond current models.

  • Features

    Our friends in the North

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    The Pathfinder Group report on the Scottish construction sector sees the new parliament as a potential champion for the industry.

  • Features

    From factory to Hackney

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Fully fitted-out modules, prefabricated in York and craned into place, have made their first appearance in a multistorey housing scheme.

  • News

    Electricians set to strike at Royal Opera House

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    New Balfour Kilpatrick offer close to being rejected on £220m project.New Balfour Kilpatrick offer close to being rejected on £220m project.

  • News

    The Eight's

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Primary colours

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Clients forum pushes whloe-life costing

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Features

    Contractors break up their

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    McAlpine boss fends off investor putsch

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Whitehead to maintain strategy as Phillips & Drew backs mystery buyer.

  • News

    Consultants desperate to block procurement changes

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Treasury stands firm over prime contracting, which CIC negotiating team denounces as laughably naïve .

  • News

    Clients blast industry's partnering record

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Slough Estates' Rimmer and Railtrack's Murray slate contractors for not understanding process.

  • News

    Ex-Mowlem chair Beck to head Railtrack

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Leaks put BT back two months

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Facade and water ingress headaches at pioneering Essex office will mean delay in occupation and estimated extra costs of £3m.

  • News

    Cala buyout team awaits Miller move

    1999-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Managers on tenterhooks as rival ponders increased bid for Scots housebuilder.