All Building articles in 2001 issue 17
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Features
Web watch
www.groundbroker.co.ukGroundbroker is a database developed by Landsource that contains details of residential development opportunities. Entries are listed county by county and range from single plots to large multi-development sites. Categories of land include sites with and without planning permission.www.rugbycement.co.ukRugby Cement has launched a website giving details of the company's products ...
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Comment
Shout it from the rooftops
Gerald Kaufman - Elections used to be won and lost on housing. This time, it'll barely be mentioned – even though, as a new report points out, it's still an explosive issue.
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Old stories
This £4m building exhibiting specimens from the prehistoric era and built to a Foster and Partners design will open next week in Quinson in the south of France.
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Features
Safety match
The unions' drive to improve site safety is putting them into a privileged position with the government's top decision-makers. This growth in their political clout has far-reaching implications for all sides of industry.
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Just in time
The Richard Rogers Partnership-designed National Assembly of Wales will be completed in April 2003, in time for the next assembly elections.
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Comment
A question of judgment
Robert Akenhead - It is extremely difficult to get a court judgment set aside, as a contractor in Bedfordshire found out to its relief when it was accused of fraud
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Features
Just the job
William Wiles talks to Nilesh Patel about how he manages to combine his day job as a project architect with his passion for film-making
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Information point
Safety training guidesThe CITB has released three CD-ROMs aimed at those responsible for safety training. A Guide to Scaffold Inspection: Check Your Ties and Braces gives advice on the safe planning and installation of scaffolding, including alloy towers. Health and Safety in Excavations: Check Before You Dig looks at the ...
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Features
Tender price forecast
The ups and downs at a glance Current trends A fall in tender prices of 0.5% last quarter ends the run of five successive rises Demand for labour has stabilised and supply is easing in most areas Construction output rose 1.5% last year and is 10% higher than ...
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The exodus
Housebuilders have found that being quoted on the stock exchange is more about slavery to the City than building homes. So they've said goodbye to analysts and investors and regained their freedom.
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News
Three honoured for enterprise
Engineer Buro Happold is one three construction companies to win the Queen's Award for Enterprise this year.
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Slowing tender prices spark fears of downturn
QSs say sudden collapse in tender price inflation is beginning of the end of the boom.
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McCarthy & Stone must double sales to hit targets
Retirement housebuilding specialist will struggle to meet City expectations as profit falls by £100,000.
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Comment
Why we should ditch retention
James Bessey - Retention is a time-honoured method of keeping contractors and subcontractors on their toes by withholding a fixed sum of money. The problem is: it doesn't work
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Comment
Difficult sums
Tony Bingham - If a delay leaves you temporarily out of pocket, but does not dent your profit, should you recover losses? One judge said yes, but an adjudicator might not agree …
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Contracts
Balfour lands £33m of workBalfour Beatty has secured four contracts worth £33.7m. They are: a £15.4m design-and-build project for two buildings at a business park in Hampshire; a £9.5m design-and-build redevelopment of a cinema in Edinburgh; a £6m civil engineering contract with IM Properties for a business park at Borch ...
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Features
March is Laing's swansong as independent contractor
Two contracts worth a total of £46m take firm to top of league table as O'Rourke deal is finalised.
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Comment
One-nil to the chickens
Dominic Helps - At last, we have the final judgment in Discain vs Opecprime. By backing Opecprime, the judge has made the lives of adjudicators everywhere more difficult.
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It's time to change
Peter Mason - In the wake of the safety summit, how can construction clean up its act on health and safety? It could start by learning from the oil and gas industry