All Building articles in 1999 Issue 38
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Features
Have your say
The Institute of Personnel and Development's Angela Baron on 360° feedback, the system that gets everyone talking.
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Features
The strength of Sampson
Claire Sampson, production director on the Millennium Dome, is a cool operator. Which is just as well, as she's co-ordinating the backstage elements for the whole shebang
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News
Tilbury plans services listing
Analysts are tipping Tilbury Douglas to follow Amey's lead and request a support services listing on the stock market.The group derives two-thirds of its operating profit from outside construction. It has just announced a further £12m support services contract. UKC&E, part of Tilbury's engineering division, will provide maintenance fabrication services ...
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Features
Lead times
Workload is healthy as we approach the millennium, but as Mace's update shows, lead times are mostly unaffected. compiled by Mace and Gardiner & Theobald
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News
In-house review at QS Gleeds
QS Gleeds' in-house management consultancy arm is to carry out a 12-month review of the firm's cost consultancy division.The management consultancy usually advises clients such as J Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Divisional chief Graham Robinson plans to use one of Gleeds' business models on the company to cut ...
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News
Railtrack winner Mott MacDonald fears shortages
East Coast Mainline project manager warns of overheating after Railtrack awards £10.7bn contracts.
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Sharp fall in Rugby interim
Restructuring and disposals drove down interim pre-tax profit at Rugby Group to £21.9m from £35.2m for same time last year. The materials firm's turnover for the six months to 30 June 1999 fell £53m to £458m.Rugby sold US laminates business Pioneer and its British and Australian joinery businesses.
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Comment
A matter of faith
A duty of good faith is increasingly being expressed or implied in consultants' contracts and could affect all aspects of their appointment but what exactly does it entail?
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News
Electricians in wildcat pay strike
More than 1000 electricians staged an unofficial strike this week in protest at a pay deal agreed between union officials and employers. The worst-hit sites were in London, and included the Millennium Dome, the Royal Opera House and the Jubilee Line Extension. On Tuesday, all 200 electricians at the opera ...
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Features
Together in electric dreams
IT Construction Best Practice promises to acquaint the small contractor with modern technology. Is this the advice that they've been waiting for, or is the FMB right in pointing to weaknesses in its approach?
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News
Homes stampede shows up double standards
Two premature occupation cases highlight different rules for public and private building control.
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Comment
Creative tension
What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.
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News
MOD under fire over prime contracts
Construction clashes with ministry over alleged lack of trust and payment terms.
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Fight over porters and cleaners threatens the PFI
Contractors say the PFI is not viable unless ancillary staff transfer from hospital control to PFI consortia.
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Comment
Clash points
The Woolf reforms have introduced a revolutionary change in legal culture. Has the subcontracting industry woken up to this, and is it ready to change its ways to cope with the new rules?
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Comment
Clash points
Specialist contractors are in the same state of uncertainty as everyone else when it comes to post-Woolf litigation but given the abysmal record of the courts pre-Woolf, it couldn't get much worse.
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Comment
Egan à la carte
The Egan message may be all very well for the big boys of construction, but does it have any relevance to smaller firms?
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News
Constructionline buys credibility
Constructionline, the public-private partnership that runs an approved list of contractors and consultants, is offering 10% discounts to trade bodies in exchange for official endorsement. The public-private partnership between the DETR and Capita is offering cut-price subscription renewals to members of the 13 trade bodies that pledged to endorse Constructionline ...