All Building articles in 2002 issue 46
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Features
Jeffries draws up shortlist for hot seat at Atkins
Main board expected to discuss possible applicants for post of chief executive at meeting this week.
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Features
O'Rourke: We need no replacement for Andy White
Laing O’Rourke chairman and chief executive Ray O’Rourke says he does not intend to appoint a successor to former chief operating officer Andy White.O’Rourke said the group did not need another chief operating officer because the integration of Laing had been so successful. “It’s not an issue. We are one ...
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Features
Wolstenholme gets top job at Heathrow's Terminal 5
Former group construction director at BAA becomes T5 supremo after departure of Haste to CrossRail.
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Comment
We're not the only ones
Like construction, the pensions industry has failed to focus on what its customers need. It should take a leaf out of our book and indulge in some free-thinking
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News
O’Rourke: We need no replacement for White
Laing O’Rourke chairman and chief executive Ray O’Rourke says he does not intend to appoint a successor to former chief operating officer Andy White.
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Comment
Ways of making you talk
It was always thought that a clause in a contract that says parties will mediate before they litigate wasn't that enforceable. After the following case, we know different
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Features
Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose finds London Docklands and the City booming
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Comment
Ten years later …
Should you expect compensation if someone does you damage they should have foreseen? Of course. But what if it goes on for an unforeseeable length of time?
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Features
On solid ground
Figures just in for September complete the picture for the third quarter of 2002, and they show a market that is holding firm. Construction Forecasting and Research presents the facts
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News
Grimshaw goes Stateside
Architect Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners opened an office in New York this week.
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Features
Focus on the regions
How are activity levels and order books changing around the UK? The figures give the balance of firms reporting an increase compared with those reporting a decrease
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News
Key players under fire for Scottish parliament
A former project manager of the £308m Scottish parliament project has attacked the Scottish executive and the presiding officer for their roles in the scheme.
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FeaturesThe equaliser
Ras Patel, himself the victim of a racial attack, is in charge of ridding construction of racism. He tells Tom Broughton that the best way forward is to persuade companies that racial equality makes good business sense.
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News
Sound effects
Tough new acoustic regulations are making a noise this winter – and giving housebuilders a serious headache
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NewsEye for design
Eye for design: Architect TTSP is about to complete the refurbishment of the Eye office block in Holborn, central London. The scheme will create 7600 m2 of commercial and retail space and a glass atrium through the building. Ten earlier planning applications have failed. Contractor on the project is Kier ...
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NewsTake Courage
Take Courage:This £150m redevelopment of the former Courage brewery in central Bristol has just been given planning consent. The scheme will create 70,000 m2 of residential, commercial and leisure space. It was designed by Colwyn Foulkes for JG Bristol. Clarke Bond is structural engineer, building services engineer is Jacobs Gibb ...
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Contracts
Balfour nabs two MoD jobsBalfour Beatty has secured a £37m contract from Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence's property arm, to build and operate naval accommodation at the HMS Nelson barracks in Portsmouth. It is also preferred bidder on a £30m deal to build naval accommodation at Marchwood and Thorney ...
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NewsContractor Haymills launches office fit-out division
Private contractor defies slump in South-east commercial market to create subsidiary called Whitespace.