All Building articles in 1999 Issue 12
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Amey profit leaps 25% to hit £18.7m
AMEY announced a 25% rise in pre-tax profit to £18.7m for the year ending 31 December 1998, compared with £14.6m in 1997.The contracting-to-facilities management group's turnover was up 21% to £471m, with earnings per share up 35% to 42.02p.Amey Ventures, which was set up in 1998 to deliver private finance ...
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P&O aims to float Bovis by March 2000
Parent company looking for £350m for 5000-strong subsidiary as Lampl prepares to step down.
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Barratt profit rises 21%
HOUSEBUILDER Barratt this week unveiled pre-tax profit up 21% to £41.2m for the six months to 31 December 1998.This was on a turnover up 11% to £431.9m, compared with £388.3 in the previous year. Earnings per share rose 22 % to 12.2p. Barratt declared an interim dividend of 3.56p, an ...
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HBG UK profit leaps after rebranding
Chief executive talks up the UK market and predicts better times ahead for the PFI.
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Porritt attacks industry for neglecting green agenda
Nonsense to believe self-regulation will work, says campaigner, warning of tougher legislation ahead.
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Features
Where have all the young QSs gone?
The number of QS graduates has almost halved in the past five years, leaving the profession facing a skills drought. How can it attract the fresh talent it needs?
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Features
Appointments
Contractors Stuart Norman has joined Styles & Wood as sales and marketing director. Anna Federici becomes sales and marketing co-ordinator.Bristol-based Cowlin Construction has appointed David Stockham chief quantity surveyor.Robertson Group (Scotland) has appointed Martin Dalziel managing director of its property development company Robertson Property.Housebuilders Crest Nicholson has promoted Stephen ...
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Ove Arup to sell house system
ENGINEER Ove Arup & Partners has devised an industrialised modular housing system.The house elements are manufactured in a factory, in a similar way to car parts. Homebuyers can buy the house they want off the shelf.The Ove Arup modular housing concept is based on heavy concrete panels and is the ...
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Features
Don't back a two-horse race
The public sector wants to defend itself against the preferred bidder on PFI projects, so it is proposing to play two bidders off against each other. This is not a good idea. But the public sector does have another remedy …
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Comment
Brown's mixed bag
First person The chancellor's budget won't provide much work for contractors, but it wasn't all bad news …
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Bank launches credit scheme
BANK of Ireland has launched a service that it claims will protect construction companies from the withdrawal of credit in an economic downturn.The scheme, called Safeguard, has all the attributes of an overdraft, claims the bank, with the exception that it is not repayable on demand.The agreement can be cancelled ...
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Bates recommends new independent PFI body
Treasury taskforce should be replaced by advisory group to be called UK Capital, says Sir Malcolm.
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Features
The benchmark
[Asda superstore, Mansfield] The third in Building's series highlighting best practice looks at how Laing completed the Mansfield Asda store under budget, thanks to detailed monitoring of productivity. A panel of experts looks at how it was done.
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Galliford/Christiani to win in Birmingham
Laing expected to be pipped at post for city's £113m, Grimshaw-designed Millennium Point project.
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Laing blames Cardiff for results
Chastened contractor outlines more cautious approach after millennium rugby stadium disaster knocks £12.1m off profit, cutting it to £20.1m.
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Builder fined for bogus FMB claim
A BUILDER HAS been fined £900 for falsely claiming to be a member of the Federation of Master Builders.Chris Roan, prosecuting for Cambridgeshire Trading Standards, said Brian Sharpe's Cambridge-based company, Abcam, had falsely advertised membership of the FMB in two editions of the Cambridge Yellow Pages.Roan told magistrates that Sharpe ...
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Caborn boosts brown sites
PLANNING minister Richard Caborn has announced plans to restrict housing developments on greenfield land.Under the terms of new government planning guidance, local authorities will be able to release greenfield sites for development only if no suitable brownfield or recycled land is available.The plans are contained in a revised version of ...
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Where the buck stops
When Oxford University's pharmacology department developed cracks in the plaster it sued the architect. So the architect sued the contractor – and lost. And thereby hangs a cautionary tale.
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Railtrack intervenes in supply chain
Company demands greater efficiency as it increases spending on upgrades by £10bn over the next 10 years.