All Building articles in 2000 Issue 29
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News
Wembley team set for showdown
Client sets up value engineering exercise to slash costs as Bovis Lend Lease considers its position.
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Comment
Pass the portal
First person Construction Internet portals promise the world, but do we really need them? If we do, it may be the small firms that win.
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MP threatens to shame PFI profiteers
Labour member of Commons Public Accounts Committee on the warpath over refinancing and lack of clawback clauses.
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Features
Just the job
Phil Clark asks the managing director of fit-out firm Newco Interiors what s happening indoors.
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Treasure islands
The Caribbean is the place to work, according to Hays Montrose s guide to salaries worldwide. But if it s not your idea of paradise, the guide also lists pay and perks in nine other locations.
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Home shopping
Berkeley Homes has brought housebuying into the Internet age with a slick advertising campaign and a shiny new web site. But does it actually help house-hunters?
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News
Small firms will fail, says ex-Longley man
Mike Gurner, the man who sold the Longley name for £1, says smaller regional firms no longer have the financial muscle to take on design-and-build risk.
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French firms to form Euro titan
Two large French builders, Vinci and Groupe GTM, have agreed to merge to create Europe s largest construction firm, with a combined turnover of more than £10.3bn. The two expect to save up to £125m by linking up their operations but insist that this will not mean job cuts for ...
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Features
Michael Dickson
The Construction Industry Council's new chairman is diffident about his achievements, but his years with Buro Happold and his infectious enthusiasm for the industry make him the right man to lead the umbrella group's focus on design and urban renaissance.
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Commercial work set to decline in next two years
Forecaster CFR says office/retail will slip 4% and 2% in 2001 and 2002, with overall output slowing, too.
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Features
Certifiable consultants
If you get the job of independent certifier on a PFI project (and the liabilities can be scary enough to put consultants off) how much checking do you actually have to do?
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Features
Hands up if you want to be a builder
How do you attract the pupils of a 97% Asian school in Birmingham into construction? In the second of our recruitment specials, industry figures face the challenge of recruiting ethnic minorities.
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Features
Where the buck stops now
A recent Court of Appeal decision seemed to relieve designers of a great deal of responsibility for safety. The HSE responded by changing the regulations to reimpose that duty. What do the new rules say?
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Crest Nicholson bows to pressure in Bristol
Developer Crest Nicholson has appointed a masterplanner more in tune with local feelings on its troubled Canon s Marsh development in Bristol. Edward Cullinan Architects has been appointed following the involvement of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The selection process, which followed the city council s rejection ...
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Comment
Casting a block vote
Second opinion Rather than sounding the death knell of aircrete, changes to energy regulations should breathe new life into it.
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Birse loses gold at the end of the rainbow
Birse Chief executive Peter Watson said he was astonished after his company was awarded only £500 000 in its long-running dispute with Caerphilly council. The firm had expected to be awarded £8.1m from the case. The court battle over payment on the Rymney Valley Relief Road project began ...
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Features
Balancing the books
Your company s had a profitable year, but you re stretching the overdraft and can t pay the directors bonuses. Sound familiar? Your problem is cash flow here s how to deal with it.
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Careful what you ask for
When the Lowry Centre tried to escape the clutches of the Construction Act by backdating the contract, the adjudicator refused to go away. One party cannot rob another of its statutory right to adjudication.
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Appointments
Contractors Sterof has appointed Steve Cottrell commercial manager and Mike Hogg management surveyor. Ian Falshaw has joined Harrison Developments of Malton, North Yorkshire, as associate director of developments. Weaver Construction, which is based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, has appointed Julian Kawecki managing director. Housebuilders Lovell has appointed Bob ...
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Jarvis may appeal critical judgment
Contractor may seek leave to appeal after judge orders it to pay former auditor s costs.