All Building articles in 2000 Issue 10
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Features
Uphill struggle
The centrepiece of a £57m sports centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow. Concreting the 15° slope was just one problem this multipurpose building presented.
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Features
Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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Features
Stop right there!
If someone brings an adjudication against you when they have no right, do you have to go through the motions and hope to get it overturned later, or can you get a court to halt it?
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Features
Reeling them in
IT: E-commerce Causeway Technologies boss Phil Brown has spent the past year pulling together all the different services he needs to lure customers to his e-marketplace, buildingworks.com.
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News
Persimmon reshuffles
Housebuilder Persimmon is amalgamating its operation into two new divisions.Persimmon Homes South will be led by Mike Farley and Persimmon Homes North, which will operate north of Nottingham and include Scotland, will be run by John Millar. Until now, the company had four regions: Southern, Central, Yorkshire and Northern. The ...
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Wilcon sets up on-line merchant
New Buildpack.com division will use £3m software system to set up just-in-time deliveries to sites.
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Comment
The right image
Second opinion It’s time to start using building sites positively, as free advertising for the construction industry.
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News
Prescott sets new target for SE homes
The Thames Gateway, Ashford and Milton Keynes will be the focus of major housing developments after deputy prime minister John Prescott announced specific homes targets for the South-east.Prescott said 43 000 homes were required in the next five years.In a statement to the Commons, he said: “The Thames Gateway will ...
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Watchdogs home in on Scots parliament
Three inquiry teams could soon be investigating the cost of the Scottish parliament as concern mounts over the building’s growing price tag.Ian Davidson MP, a member of the public accounts committee, has called on the National Audit Office to examine why costs have risen from £50m to £230m. The Scottish ...
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Glazing falls out at Portcullis House
Specialist firms called in to assess problem at MPs building after panels in the atrium crash to the floor.
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Features
For your eyes only
Lawyer Charlotte Giller on how two new acts will affect an employee's rights to privacy at work.
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Morgan expects mergers
Redrow boss Steve Morgan has predicted that housebuilding will be hit by a wave of consolidation.Announcing a 31% rise in pre-tax profit to £34.2m for the last six months of 1999, chairman Morgan said: “I suspect that if you look forward two years, there will be considerably fewer players in ...
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Top housebuilders in e-commerce talks
City bank Shroders behind hush-hush plans to allow major players to sell homes on-line.
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MOD warns firms not to misbehave on prime deals
Contractors’ payment track-records will be scrutinised under contract terms announced this week.
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Wembley issues council with planning ultimatum
Stadium chief Bob Stubbs says it will take Brent to public inquiry if it misses 19 March deadline.
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Cowboy convicted of defrauding pensioners
A Scottish Builder has been convicted of cheating pensioners out of £80 000.William McPhee, of Castlecary, near Cumbernauld, was found guilty of defrauding 16 people by carrying out unnecessary repairs, charging exorbitant prices and failing to complete the work properly.Sheriff Kenneth Maciver could have jailed McPhee, known as “King of ...
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WSP in management consultancy move
Engineer WSP has headhunted a management consultant from Arthur Andersen to set up its own management consultancy division. Announcing that WSP had hit last year’s target of £100m of turnover, group managing director Chris Cole said the support services-listed firm was keen to use the new division to cross-sell to ...
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Features
Conspiracy theory
This is the story of how a consulting engineer and a developer misled a client over practical completion, the role a collateral warranty played and how more than £1m was spent in pursuit of less than £13 000 damages.
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Comment
My life as a client
First person All domestic clients want is a quality mark, a simple domestic contract and 5% VAT on repair and maintenance.