All Building articles in 1999 Issue 22
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Features
Speak for yourself
Mary Lou Hayes of the property and construction division of Alexander Hughes Selection explains how a second language can boost your career.
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News
Industry struggling to keep up with IT revolution
400 interviews and 5000 responses to Barbour Index survey highlight construction's IT deficiencies.
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Features
Here be monsters
The requirements of North Sea oil extraction have given rise to contract clauses that try to limit what can be claimed for variations. As Amec found, they can be horribly hard to understand, let alone apply.
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News
Treasury tempers guidelines
Treasury officials have toned down guidance that is due to recommend prime contracting as a key form of public sector procurement. New advice to civil servants due to be launched by Treasury minister Alan Milburn at a conference on 16 June will also call for more emphasis on ...
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Features
A miss is as good as a mile
A contractor missed the time limit for serving an arbitration notice by a week. The court took a strict line, and refused to grant an extension.
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News
RICS ditches plan to group surveyors in new division
Institution revises consultation paper after building surveyors protest at merger with QSs.
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News
Try delisting rumours see shares rise
Management buyout speculation is catalyst for 12% rise in contractor s share value.
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News
Public wants cowboys out
The public has given its overwhelming support to the idea of a mandatory registration scheme for builders as a way to rid the market of cowboys. In an NOP telephone poll of 400 homeowners commissioned by Building, 95% wanted to be able to choose a builder from such a register, ...
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Features
Outlaw cowboys, say homeowners
A national registration scheme, an ombudsman and a law banning unqualified builders. According to an NOP poll, that's how the public would deal with cowboys.
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Features
Materials life costs
The second in Building's series of whole-life costs for materials focuses on PVCu, steel and aluminium windows.
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News
Tough choices over Scots parliament costs
MSPs to be offered menu of cost-cutting measures to keep Edinburgh project within £50m budget.
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Features
Slipping the choke chain
Pressure on the carotid artery can render a person unconscious in less than 10 seconds; withholding payment has a similar effect on subcontractors. So, if you do, you better be acting in good faith
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News
BMF to put list on-line
The Builders Merchants Federation is set to launch an Internet database of materials and products. Suppliers will pay to have their product ranges, including prices, descriptions and specifications, listed on e-Xact, which can be updated by the suppliers. The cost of subscribing to the database will depend on the firm's ...
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Features
Big in Japan
The land of the rising sun is gearing up to launch its own private finance initiative bill this summer and British firms with experience of the PFI could find it wins them a place in a new market.
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News
Management team wins battle for Cala
Miller Group gave up its struggle for control of Cala this week after a raid by Cala management secured a 47% stake in the company. The long-running battle reached its climax when Miller offered to sell its 6% stake, which gave the management team control of the Scottish housebuilder. It ...
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Comment
Prudence is back in town
First person Self-regulation is the best regulation and the anti-cowboy taskforce report is the industry putting its own house in order.
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News
BAA to boost construction spend
BAA says it will continue to increase its construction spend by about 6% a year, despite a drive to cut its number of framework suppliers. The airport operator spent £467.4m on its construction programme in the 12 months to 31 March 1998, a rise of 6% on its £440.5m capital ...
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News
Aukett proposes to expand tenfold
UK s largest quoted architect reveals ambitious plans to increase market capitalisation from £5m to £50m in five years.