All Building articles in 1999 Issue 09 – Page 2
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Majors in showdown over PFI bid costs
Health minister to hear complaints about plan for two-horse race to financial close.
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BICC statement expected in bid to boost shares
Balfour Beatty parent attempts to deflect shareholder pressure as analysts call for demerger of cables arm.
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Best-value campaign
Construction minister Nick Raynsford has confirmed that steps are to be taken to improve central and local government procurement. Raynsford said deputy prime minister John Prescott has written to the rest of the Cabinet and the Local Government Association calling for action. The move, first revealed in Building, is designed ...
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Bad old days over, says Redrow
The era of boom and bust is over, housebuilder Redrow claimed this week. Redrow Group managing director Paul Pedley said the market was returning to the stability of the pre-1960s after nearly 40 years of highs and lows. Now we have a low inflation, low interest rate economy, the ...
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Features
Art and power
Beset by nightmarish construction difficulties, the transformation of Bankside power station to the new Tate gallery looks set to be completed on budget and may even meet its 18 June deadline.
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Appointments
Contractors Gerry Sims has been appointed engineering sales manager of Amec Construction. Lawrie Pirie has been made director and general manager of the firm's new building services mobile maintenance division. MJ Gleeson has appointed Eric Stobart non-executive director. He will be chairman of the main ...
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Brown's aggregates tax hangs in balance
Contractors facing 20% rise in cost of aggregates as chancellor contemplates new eco-tax in the budget.
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Comment
Adjudication has arrived
The first case on the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision has been decided by the senior judge in the Technology and Construction Court, and we now have a vital piece of case law.
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Features
VAT's what it's all about
The construction industry was in a spin when it thought it would have to account for VAT on money due but unpaid. Now Customs and Excise has come up with a solution that could satisfy everybody.
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Shepherd executive is third to abandon troubled flock
Third major defection as Stuart McConnachie follows two bosses out to pursue other interests .
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Laing under pressure over subcontractor’s pay scheme
Contractor urged to drop brickwork subcontractor because of its scheme to avoid NI contributions.
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£800m overhaul for Birmingham
Developers Land Securities and Hammerson have announced plans for an £800m retail development that will transform Birmingham city centre. Working with investor Henderson, the developers revealed that they will be forming three separate partnerships to work together on the three phases of the scheme. The first will be a 16 ...
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Shepherd to slash up to 50 jobs
Loss-making Shepherd Construction is to axe up to 50 jobs in an attempt to cut costs. The York-based privately owned contractor this week announced a series of changes following a strategic review. The company s three divisions will be organised into two operations, northern and southern. Shepherd s Northampton and ...
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Comment
Summing up. Number 31 – Privity of contract
Michael Conroy Harris continues Berwin Leighton's guide to the concepts of construction law.
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Prime contracting can save 12%, says MOD
Defence minister to unveil new system s life-cycle savings as Amec-led pilot scheme starts on site.
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Canary Wharf plans £1.5bn development
Canary Wharf Group this week pledged to build another £1.5bn of property in London Docklands. The group promised to press on with plans to build the remaining one-third of the original Canary Wharf scheme as it unveiled plans to raise at least £500m through a stock market flotation. Much of ...
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Hull firms set for £1bn boom
Hull wants to be one of the UK's top cities and local contractors plan to team up to make sure they land some of the building contracts.
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Straw pledges £300 000 to Lawrence fund
Home Secretary Jack Straw has pledged £300 000 in government funds to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. The trust awards bursaries to enable black students to train as architects in the UK, Jamaica or South Africa. At a reception at South Africa House hosted by the Stephen Lawrence Trust on ...
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