All Building articles in 1999 Issue 29
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Prescott unveils £1bn-plus spending spree
Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week awarded £1bn to 160 projects around the UK through the government’s Single Regeneration Budget.The money will go to a wide range of schemes, and for the first time will be administered by Regional Development Agencies.There is assistance for projects throughout the UK, ...
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Laing lands £110m Basingstoke revamp
Laing has won a £110m contract from developer Grosvenor Estates to transform leisure and retail facilities in the centre of Basingstoke.The project will see Laing building Festival Place, a 44 000 m2 new shopping complex and an 8500 m2 leisure area incorporating a multiscreen cinema.Laing will also refurbish The Walks, ...
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Amey lays off 34 facilities management staff
FM group makes redundancies in bid to streamline service to local authority clients
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HBG favourite for £46m Gateshead gallery
Contractor set to beat Laing and Sir Robert McAlpine to conversion of quayside flour mill into arts centre.
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Features
The Building top 50
If you care more about making money than turning it over, you ought to consider a career in housebuilding; if you want to be a contractor, maybe you should consider branching out into the services sector. That's the message in the latest survey of who's earning, selling and making what ...
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Runners line up for £7bn Tube part-privatisation
Eight consortia apply to prequalify for London Underground mega-projects.
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NHBC admits mistakes in inspecting new home
Homes watchdog agrees that a check-up never took place but says errors were administrative.
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Mitie has yet another good year
Services business Mitie Group has bagged pre-tax profit of more than 30%. The result for the year to 31 March 1999 is the firm’s 10th in a row that has made this level of return.Mitie, which is almost 50% staff-owned, is now seeking to expand into property outsourcing ...
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Appointments
Contractors Building and civil engineering contractor Dean & Dyball has promoted Adrian Dyball to managing director of construction. Barry Seeley and Peter Walton have been promoted to directors of Dover-based Barwick Construction. Alfred McAlpine Construction has made Andrew Nash business development manager for civil ...
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Comment
Real world architecture
Architecture is self-obsessed and self-indulgent when it needs to be part of commercial and technical reality.
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Kvaerner sells PFI arm
Kvaerner Construction has sold its corporate development arm to Australian bank Macquarie, as predicted in Building (7 May, page 9).Infrastructure Trust of Australia, which is managed by Macquarie, announced on Monday that it was buying Kvaerner Investment and Kvaerner Corporate Development for £90m.ITA will take control of seven of ...
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Hochtief eyes Balfour and Carillion
Analysts believe German giant is ready to buy into companies for lucrative PFI stakes.
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Not blind before the law
Lord Denning's career as a judge dedicated to common sense and the righting of wrongs is worth celebrating especially by companies in the construction industry.
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Peter Birse steps down as chairman of contractor
Non-executive management guru Peter Watson takes reins.
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Revenue decision to boost industry profit
A decision by the Inland Revenue not to appeal in two landmark tax cases should leave the construction industry millions of pounds better off.The decision means that firms will now be able to reduce taxable profit by taking into account some anticipated losses.Firms have, in the past, been able ...
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Bovis chief encourages innovation support clubs
John Anderson urges contractors to help spread Movement for Innovation initiatives.
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Galliford names new chairman
Tony Palmer has been appointed chairman-designate at Galliford Group. The former Taylor Woodrow chief executive will take up the post after non-executive chairman Richard Miles retires at the company's annual general meeting on 29 October.Peter Galliford will also step down as a non-executive director at the meeting after 50 years ...
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Child labour
Lawyer Ian Hunter explains how the new Employment Relations Bill will affect maternity and paternity rights.
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Rugby sale disappoints City
City analysts have voiced their disappointment at Rugby Group's sale of its UK and Australian joinery business to private US manufacturer Jeld-Wen for £86.5m.The group announced in March that it was in the advanced stages of selling off all its joinery interests to concentrate on its core business of lime ...
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Clients keen on indicators
A series of major clients and industry firms are keen to use the key performance indicators established in the wake of the Egan report.The KPIs, a tool through which construction performance can be measured to help continuous improvement in the industry, are popular with different client types, contractors and consultants, ...