All Building articles in 1999 Issue 12 – Page 2
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News
McAlpine civils ups margins
ALFRED McALPINE'S £200m-a-year civil engineering business is achieving 4.2% margins – almost three times the sector norm, the firm revealed last week.Reporting pre-tax profit up 41% to £34m for 1998, the firm said its civils arm had made £8.3m and has been set the target of contributing 30% of group ...
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Contractors and clients unveil green measures
Laing, Tarmac and Railtrack reveal eco-friendly initiatives but Crane calls for more action.
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Features
Mind the contractual gaps
Contracts are often the last thing to be checked before work begins – and sometimes they don't get checked at all. The result can be that parties sometimes need m'learned friends to tell them whether they exist at all.
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New delay fears hit Royal Opera House
Balfour Kilpatrick asks for two-month extension in leaked letter to construction manager.
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Seven vie for east London estates masterplan
Shoreditch trust selects firms to submit development "vision" for £200m regeneration scheme.
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Secrecy surrounds several Egan projects
SECRECY surrounds some projects set up to demonstrate the best-practice principles recommended in the Egan report.Although the number of demonstration projects submitted and approved is healthy – the first round attracted 48 worth a total of £1.4bn, and the second 35 worth £1.5bn – there are no details available on ...
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Features
Are you experienced?
Jayne Burridge of the National Construction Careers Group explains how offering work-experience places can help your firm.
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News
Hopkins' Saga staff HQ unveiled
The first pictures of the Saga headquarters, built by Schal, and approaching completion in Folkestone.
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Features
Hopkins' Saga staff HQ unveiled
The first pictures of the Saga headquarters, built by Schal, and approaching completion in Folkestone.
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Features
Law and its limits
Legislation to tackle payment problems are all well and good – but to avoid disappointment, don't expect too much from them.
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Features
Peter Mason
City opinion formers say he is a candidate for best chief executive in UK contracting, and the Square Mile has backed his Euro ambitions by tripling his firm's share price. So Amec's boss must be a happy man, mustn't he?
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News
Polluters named
TWO construction firms were named among the worst polluters in England and Wales by the Environment Agency this week.Lancashire-based EOM Construction and Balfour Beatty were listed at number seven and 13 respectively in a hall of shame compiled by the Environment Agency.EOM Construction was fined £21 000 last year ...
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Comment
Spreading the word
Second opinion Now that we are talking to our clients, and even to our competitors, perhaps it is time to use some plain language.
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Features
Spring thaw
Six months ago, the construction industry seemed set for a tough winter. Now, with those fears largely dispelled, Building analyses the regional construction scene.
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