All Building articles in 2000 Issue 15

View all stories from this issue.

  • Features

    Turning pitch

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Will a winter spent on a state-of-the-art practice surface that can simulate spin and seam wickets give Glamorgan Cricket Club the edge this season?

  • Features

    Renzo Piano

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    He has the pick of the world's big private commissions. He can compare himself to a pianist and get away with it. It's OK to be jealous.

  • Features

    Stressed to kill

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    The Institute of Management’s Karen Charlesworth looks at one of the UK’s biggest economic problems: work stress.

  • News

    Mansell's hopes for Prop.Com

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Mansell expects that its joint-venture one-stop shop Prop.Com will begin to generate returns by the end of the year.The new firm is a collaboration with WS Atkins and Drake & Skull aimed at companies with international property interests. Clients are demanding a single point of responsibility for construction, maintenance ...

  • News

    Profit warning hits Wescol share price

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Structural steel group Wescol saw its share price drop 26% this week after it warned that intense price competition would hurt its second-half margins, and that it would not be paying an interim dividend.Shares in the group dropped from 32.5p to 24p, following the announcement.A group statement said: “In the ...

  • Features

    Tender price forecast

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Labour shortages and workload growth pushed tender prices up 1.8% in the first quarter of 2000, and the upward trend is set to continue. by Davis Langdon & Everest

  • Features

    Will they fly this time?

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Forget what happened last time: BAA’s second-generation framework agreements are a new system being driven by a new team. But will they fare any better?

  • Features

    Subcontractors: risk dustbins

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    It appears to be a popular practice nowadays for main contractors to farm out risk along with the subcontract. The Construction Act provides some protection, but it may require further intervention.

  • News

    MPs slam Dartford PFI hospital cost

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust had inadequate systems for controlling costs on private finance initiative projects, according to a damning report by the Public Accounts Committee published last week.The PAC report on the Dartford hospital project criticised the trust for failing to spot errors in the public sector comparator and ...

  • Comment

    The cost of status toys

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    First person Do you want team spirit? More profit? Cleaner lungs? It’s easy: junk the Jags and give everyone a Golf.

  • News

    Fielden Clegg strengthens London operation

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Bath-based architect changes its name and boosts staff at its operation in the capital.

  • News

    Bovis wins Vodafone HQ

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Bovis Lend Lease has won the flagship £160m contract to build the UK headquarters for Vodafone Airtouch.The company beat off competition from Interior Services Group to scoop the contract after the shortlist had been whittled down from six to two.The Vodafone contract has been likened to Project Jaguar, BT’s ...

  • Features

    Named and blamed

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    This is a horror story for clients. It begins with Mr Steve Catton’s firm entering into an ordinary contract with a builder, and ends with a judge telling him that he is personally liable to the tune of £200 000 …

  • News

    Top five QS cuts staff as fee squeeze bites

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Franklin + Andrews cuts jobs as industry complains that fees are failing to keep pace with rising costs.

  • News

    Tay Homes faces bid from smaller rival

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire firm Country & Metropolitan has been buying up shares and is poised to launch a bid.

  • News

    RMJM set to star in BBC site redesign

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    RMJM is favourite to design the £100m BBC redevelopment at the corporation’s White City site in London. RMJM, epr and Aukett Europe were in talks with the BBC last month about the redevelopment, but insiders said RMJM has now emerged as the front-runner.The scheme will be the first under the ...

  • News

    Bairstow quits Schal for Ernst & Young

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Former Schal managing director Malcolm Bairstow is to join financial adviser and property and construction consultant Ernst & Young.Bairstow, who stepped down as head of Schal last year after leading clients said they had lost confidence in the company, will become a partner in the group’s property consultancy group.Bairstow, who ...

  • News

    Wembley row threatens to put back stadium a year

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Public inquiry inevitable unless developer and Brent council sort out row over £30m payment.

  • Features

    Och aye, the new

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    When a Scotch whisky-drinking club developed new premises in London, award-winning architect Allies and Morrison came up with the right blend of classic and contemporary.

  • News

    Welsh assembly hit by six-month suspension

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    First secretary Rhodri Morgan extends audit three months as he considers scrapping project.