All Building articles in 1999 Issue 04 – Page 2
-
Comment
Clash points
Au contraire. Stakeholder accounts take a hatchet to the Construction Act's explicit payment rules, and its implicit intention of keeping the money flowing through the system.
-
News
Company collapse blamed on tax rules
Directors in dispute as firm caught out by government clampdown on bogus self employment.
-
Features
The benchmark
Heathrow Airport, Terminal 4 The second in Building's series highlighting best practice looks at how Egan targets can be measured. The project is a £3.8m baggage reclaim area at Heathrow's Terminal 4. Construction manager Mace completed the project early and under budget, thanks to its detailed monitoring system, ...
-
News
Urban design must rescue South Bank, says Duffy
London arts complex does not need grand architectural gesture, says author of masterplanner's brief.
-
News
Robinson backs in-town site for Coventry PFI hospital
Former paymaster-general joins row over £180m project planned for outskirts of city.
-
News
Australian group to create 'backpacker' hotel chain
Schemes in Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Liverpool, York and Bath may follow west London project.
-
News
Audit Office to slam spiralling PFI fees
Government watchdog attacks DSS for failing to curb excessive adviser charges on £150m project.
-
News
Housing associations face tough funding rules
A Housing Corporation consultation paper to be published next month will set out stricter rules on the allocation of public funds. Officials briefed housing association chief executives on the changes at a private conference organised by the National Housing Federation last week. Applications for Housing Corporation grant will be scrutinised ...
-
News
Ashe Construction divides to multiply
Hertfordshire-based Ashe Construction has announced a shake-up aimed at taking the company into the big time. The company is to split into three divisions operating from offices in Southampton, London and Hitchin, Hertfordshire, with the Hitchin office overseeing the other two. Chairman Robert Blake said the centralised structure ...
-
Comment
Here we go again
First person Faced with a combative workforce and a fast-approaching deadline, how should the government handle the Jubilee Line?
-
News
Amey may up £81.5m bid for airport FM company
Servisair criticises hostile bid as wholly inadequate ; rival bidders have two weeks to declare interest.
-
News
JLE sparks' £2263 pay-off
Electricians on the troubled Jubilee Line Extension have agreed a deal guaranteeing them a £2263 pay-off when they leave the project. The figure is dependent on productivity increases and will be paid to electricians who have worked on the project for at least two years. Electricians who ...
-
News
Surveyors say output set to rise in 1999
Confidence in the construction market has risen for the first time in two years, says a new survey. The RICS construction market survey for the fourth quarter of 1998 showed the number of firms expecting output to increase over the next 12 months was up 7% on the previous ...
-
News
Laing beats Bovis to 1998 number one
Contracts worth £1.37bn keep Laing on top in chart of 1998 as Tarmac takes monthly honours.
-
News
Scottish councils to spend £190m on PFI schools
Edinburgh leads the way with £80m investment in new-build and refurbishment.
-
Features
Why the new parliamentary building is costing £1.2m for each MP
Portcullis House is a building with a unique function on a uniquely difficult, uniquely expensive site you'd expect it to come in a little over the odds. But Building has obtained a full cost breakdown that tells a tale of exorbitant specifications and horrendous professional fees.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Next Page