All Building articles in 2000 Issue 05
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Comment
Singular successes
First person London has a series of individual triumphs along its riverbank, but the overall effect lacks cohesion.
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Features
Sir Steve Robson
This Treasury man has three years to change the way state and industry do business. Not everyone thinks he can. How on earth is he going to make it happen?
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News
Wates sinks millions into superteam
Contracting group pulls 10 top project managers from mainstream business to make sure major jobs come in “right first time”.
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Schal star quits to rejoin rival Mace
Royal Opera House construction director Gareth Lewis is to leave construction manager Schal and join rival Mace at the end of February.The decision ends a two-month tug-of-war between the companies vying for his talents.Lewis said: “My reasons for leaving are clear. There are not the opportunities within Schal for me ...
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Features
Do you really want to know?
If you lose an adjudication, do you want to know why you lost? If you do, you have to agree to it before you get into the contract. Here are some things you should be aware of.
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Features
The great sack race
Growth is stable, order books are bulging and good times are here for contractors. But it’s not enough for the City, which is why Laing, Mowlem and Taywood have axed hundreds of jobs. And there are more to come …
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Features
As green as it gets
Self-sufficient for its supply of water, gas and electricity, this Millennium Commission-funded centre incorporates a variety of sustainable technologies.
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News
but not for small firms
The Federation of Master Builders has warned that small firms are not feeling the benefits of the current upturn in construction orders. The federation’s State of Trade Survey for the fourth quarter of 1999 says that, despite an increase in workload in the last three months of the year, subcontractors ...
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Features
The e-biz has landed
Brian Moran and Mark Suster reckon e-commerce can cut building cost 20%, and they’ve set up a web site to prove it. Will they be construction’s first Internet millionaires?
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News
Delay fails to hit upbeat Crest
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson, still smarting from recent delays to its planned £200m Bristol waterfront development, has unveiled record pre-tax profit for the year to 31 October 1999.Pre-tax profit rose 42% to stand at £40m. Turnover hit £512.5m; an increase of 10.1% on the previous year. Chief executive John Callcutt said ...
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Costain turns to KPMG to cut risk
Contractor’s review of project risk may lead to a spend-earlier-to-save-later approach.
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CIC to launch performance indicators for designers
Buro Happold chairman to head Construction Industry Council working group formulating KPIs.
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Features
Cost study: Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre
Government, academia and business have come together to develop premises for start-up high-tech businesses in Plymouth. The alliance’s first building, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, provides light and airy research and production units for £639/m2
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Race taskforce calls for mandatory quotas
Companies could face ethnic minority employment quotas in contracts.
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Developer hits trouble on Bournemouth job
Developer Sheridan Group faces being removed from a late-running Imax cinema scheme by Bournemouth Borough Council.The cinema is part of a £15m leisure and retail complex called The Waterfront, being developed jointly by Dublin-based Sheridan and the council. The cinema was scheduled to open in November 1999 but missed its ...
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Features
The battle of Brompton
Contractor meets client, contractor sues client, client sues rest of the team: a typical story of multimillion-pound multiparty litigation – and how difficult it is to sort out. This is how one judge is going about it.
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News
Banks call in receiver on royal contractor CJ Sims
High-quality refurbishment specialist hits the rails two weeks after receiving royal warrant.
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Michael Manser takes a back seat
Architect Manser Associates has restructured after the decision by chairman and founder Michael Manser to relinquish day-to-day control.Now called The Manser Practice, the firm will be run by Jonathan Manser, Michael’s son and a director since the 1980s, and former Fitzroy Robinson managing director Nancy Cogswell, who joined last year.Michael ...
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Features
Appointments
Contractors North Midland Building has promoted Mike Catlin to commercial director. John Latham has been promoted to contracts director.Hull-based PDR has appointed John White purchasing manager. Paul Uter has joined as project manager and Paul Charstone has been made project quantity surveyor. Peter Farnan has joined FM Contract Services, ...
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News
Gleeson plans great train ambush
Gleeson Group is planning a “vigorous attack” on the rail market after buying specialist rail contractor Mabey last week for £6.26m. Chairman Dermot Gleeson said that, despite the construction industry’s disappointment at Railtrack’s spending record over the past three years, he anticipated considerable investment over the next decade. He described ...