All Building articles in 2000 Issue 18
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Strange ways
The Institute of Personnel and Development’s Angela Baron delves into the wacky world of management training.
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Mr Rethink
The boss of award-winning housebuilder Westbury is rising to the challenges of the stock market and the Internet.
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What are your intentions?
Does a letter of intent constitute a contract? It depends what the parties’ intention is and what’s in the letter. If you want a legally binding document, it’s best to write it as a mini-contract.
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Portrait gallery heads London lottery rush
The new £15.9m wing of the National Portrait Gallery was scheduled to be opened by the Queen this week, the first of six major lottery projects set to open in central London this month.Although barely visible from the street, the wing of the late Victorian gallery increases public and exhibition ...
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London Eye in legal talks over rival Prague wheel
Wheel team may take action over copyright as architect accuses consortium of “blatant plagiarism”.
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Europeans get together for steel web site
The Steel Construction Institute has linked up with international steel experts to create a web site offering information on design in steel construction. The project, called E-Commerce for European Steel Construction, has won a £580 000 grant from the Department of Trade and Industry.Costing £4m in total, the project will ...
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From here to eternity
Chartres, Notre Dame, Salisbury – LA. Can today’s structural engineers measure up to their medieval forerunners and produce a future-proof cathedral in the world’s most notorious earthquake zone?
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Double exposure?
You can’t pursue the same case in two tribunals at the same time, but if you have litigation or arbitration under way, you can still refer it to adjudication to get a quick, interim decision.
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Dot-coms quick on the draw
Two on-line services have beaten the government in the race against the cowboys. Improveline and hi-revolution are offering householders a database of vetted and reliable contractors – so why does anybody need the quality mark?
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Design teams go under the productivity microscope
Leading clients are about to subject their architects to BRE-style time-and-motion study.
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Cost model: Multiplex cinemas
Since 1985, nearly 2000 multiplex cinemas have opened, mainly on out-of-town sites. Now government planning guidance is forcing cinema operators back into town centres. Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest examines the design, specification and costs of urban multiplexes
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Fairview managers launch buyout
Chairman and managing director spearhead £300m bid to take north London housebuilder private.
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Housebuilders link up to buy materials on-line
Top firms plan to use joint web site to pool buying power and offer full range of customer services.
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Three housebuilders line up to buy Rippon
Galliford, Persimmon and Wilson Bowden are all understood to be in the running to buy north Nottinghamshire-based housebuilder Rippon. The sale will follow the £30m takeover of Rippon’s parent, housebuilder and quarry operator Breedon, by the larger materials firm Ennstone. Rippon will be sold when the deal, announced last week, ...
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Midlands builders snub cowboy pilot
Fewer than 100 firms have called government hotline to join Birmingham quality mark trial.
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Construction growth bucks UK trend
Construction Forecasting and Research’s latest quarterly survey predicts that construction work in the UK will increase by up to 5% over the next two years.CFR’s findings coincide with a report produced by credit agency Experian showing that construction was one of only four UK industrial sectors out of 23 analysed ...
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Your new best friend
A good relationship with your bank manager can prove vital for the survival of your business. Accountant Smith & Williamson looks at how to keep the bank on your side.
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Appointments
ContractorsRay Shine and Andrew Wyllie have been appointed directors of the construction division at Taylor Woodrow. David White has become finance director. Tony Bickerstaff, Roger Blundell, Neil Johnson, Tim Peach, Graham Quinion, Norman Reed and Gerald Slack have been made divisional directors. Richard Dean has been made managing director of ...
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Analysts tip Jarvis for takeover
Latest fall in share price and volume of stocks changing hands fuel City speculation that contractor is being stalked.
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Ex-Balfour director joins Amec
Stuart Siddall has landed the biggest finance job in contracting – finance director of Amec, the UK’s largest building and civil engineering company. Siddall, 46, joins from airports services firm Alpha Airports Group, where he was also finance director. He had previously been finance director of Balfour Beatty (1990-95) and ...