All Building articles in 1999 Issue 13 – Page 2

  • News

    Housebuilders still upbeat despite cut in homes target

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Prescott lowers government projection to 3.8 million to account for increase in cohabiting couples.

  • Comment

    Not the grand opera

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    First person The refurbished Royal Opera House should be an exhilarating addition to Covent Garden. So why is it so dull?

  • Features

    It's a weird and wonderful world

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire's Earth Centre, the first of 14 landmark millennium projects to open, pushes the green message with a mix of bizarre, fantastic and startling sights.

  • Features

    Less than zero

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Looking behind the headlines of the chancellor s recent budget, there is little to encourage the building industry and some changes, such as those to VAT, may lead to significant extra costs.

  • Features

    A little lesson in liability

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Once the defects liability period of a JCT Minor Works Contract has expired, a client can no longer file a defects claim. That s what one builder thought but the Court of Appeal disagreed.

  • Features

    The outsider

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Stepping down as a regional director of Bovis to take the helm of a family-run firm is a brave move. But it is one that has left Cliff Bryant feeling supercharged .

  • Features

    Sun, sea and service stations

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    British consultants are moving in on the Spanish leisure facilities construction market, currently as hot as the Mediterranean sun.