All Building articles in 1999 Issue 01 – Page 2
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News
Bovis/Atkins team bids for hospital
New team makes Dudley shortlist despite collapse of merger talks.
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News
Battersea Power Station hit by new dispute
Another delay as architect is stood down after row between National Grid and client Parkview.
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City claims Tarmac is back in merger talks
Analysts say Tarmac and Aggregate Industries have revived bid to create £1.8bn materials giant.
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Features
No-go area
Clients and consultants are at odds over who should carry the risks in restoring decontaminated land. Inconsistent interpretations of the law do little to help.
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Approved list firms halved
Constructionline, the government's list of contractors and consultants that is now run as a public-private partnership, has lost 5000 of the 11 000 firms on its database. By the 31 December 1998 deadline for firms to sign up to pay to remain on the register under the public-private system, fewer ...
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Features
Appointments
Contractors Stephen Feery has been appointed group chief executive of Haymills. Tim Thirlwall has been appointed chairman of Mott MacDonald. David Webster is now director of the firm's eastern division. Housebuilders Stephen Brazier has been promoted to managing director of Taywood Homes, replacing Paul Phipps , ...
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Features
All in favour
The Working Time Regulations give employers considerable scope to enter into agreements with particular groups of workers.
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Features
Cost model: Airports
Sustained rates of growth in air traffic are resulting in a continuous demand for increased airport capacity. In this month s cost model, the Airports Specialist Group of cost consultant Davis Langdon Everest examines the construction costs of airport facilities, along with commercial development on the airport campus ...
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Growing turbulence at Manchester Airport
The busiest airport in the North is set to expand to accommodate the surge of passengers expected by 2005. But contractors working on its £500m construction plans have found that it can be a very bumpy ride.
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Comment
Beauty before age
Purists might not like them, but 1960s buildings are part of Britain's architectural heritage and they deserve protection.
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News
Contractors to face legal action over Christmas pay
Firms' failure to pay operatives in line with European Union Working Time Directive to result in tribunals.
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Features
ninety-nine for '99
Building kicks off the new year with a cornucopia of places to go, people to spot and things to do before the new millennium.
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News
£2000 'golden handshake' for Jubilee Line sparks
Drake & Scull negotiating tax-free pay-off deal to speed up the £3.8bn Tube project.
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Struggling Lovell suffers £3.2m loss
YJ Lovell has reported a £3.2m pre-tax loss for the year to 30 September 1998. The social housebuilder and construction group managed an operating profit of £238 000 compared with a £415 000 loss the year before but was hit by £3.5m in exceptional items. Chief among these was ...
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Try threatens to wind up 116-year-old Portsmouth FC
High Court hearing within a fortnight will consider winding-up request over unpaid £435 000 bill for stand.
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