All Building articles in 1999 Issue 14
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Labour pledges £300m for Scottish social housing
If party wins election, it will encourage councils to transfer homes to publicly accountable landlords.
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AYH’s new guard buys out retiring directors
QS and project manager AYH has restructured to allow a younger generation of directors to buy the firm from four retiring directors. Under the deal, managing director David Thompson, the youngest of five shareholders when the company was incorporated five years ago, has been appointed chairman. But directors Barrie Hallett, ...
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Features
Targeting abuse
Institute of Personnel and Development policy adviser Angela Baron on how to spot substance abuse in the workplace and what to do next.
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RMC selectively announces acquisitions
Building materials group RMC pleased the City by announcing that it is buying two privately owned US concrete suppliers for £72.1m, but kept analysts guessing about a £1bn acquisition of Scancem in Sweden. Shares raced ahead 84p to 837p as a result of the news, which was reported alongside an ...
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Costain is back in the black after four years
Reorganisation and Skanska backing puts contractor into the profit zone.
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Appointments
Contractors John Napier has been appointed non-executive deputy chairman of Amey. Henry Boot Developments has appointed Stephen Summerfield development surveyor in its Midlands office. Andrew Gay has joined the main board of Jarvis following the retirement of Terry Simpson. He remains managing director of the Streamline Holdings ...
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Law reforms threaten future of arbitration
The use of arbitration in construction disputes looks doomed because of civil law reforms that will come into effect later this month and the success of recent adjudications, construction lawyers have warned. Some City law firms are striking out arbitration clauses from contracts being circulated by clients. Peter Shaw, construction ...
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Lottery funding changes upset architects
The RIBA has warned that proposed changes to the Arts Council s lottery funding strategy could make things worse for architects working on lottery schemes. In his response to the council s consultation document, RIBA president David Rock said sudden changes could disrupt the work of both existing and potential ...
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Balfour Beatty to expand as BICC quits cables
£275m energy cable sale could fund acquisition of Tarmac or Bovis, analysts say.
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Star of the big screen
Many think of Bradford as the grubby embodiment of the thoroughly Yorkshire sentiment, Where there's muck there's brass . Yet Bradford in 1983 confounded its ill-informed detractors by becoming home to a resource that stood for everything that was new, modern, even futuristic: the National Museum of Photography, Film ...
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Kosovo war casts shadow over housebuilding
House prices are on the up, but the crisis in Yugoslavia has the market in pessimistic mood.
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Sporting chance
Manchester City Council is refusing to let funding problems scupper its ambitious plans for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Can it win the race?
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China and its supporters
China is the world s biggest building site and its greater openness to outside influence offers opportunities aplenty for UK construction firms enough to make one feel quite giddy.
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Comment
An inspiring choice
First person Marco Goldschmied is the right man to lead the RIBA. He is committed to improving architects profile and the RIBA HQ.
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Chris Smith
The minister who has to juggle culture, media and sport is bidding to delegate responsibility for architecture to a new champion. Probably just as well, as his portfolio doesn't give him much time to keep up with new buildings.
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Clash points
The insolvency exemption is the most controversial element in the Construction Act. It is unjustifiable, unfair and too wide-ranging in its definition of insolvency. It must go.
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Clash points
No, it must stay why should major contractors bear all the risk? Also, Rudi exaggerates the helplessness of subcontractors to pay-when-paid, as well as the amount of money they may lose.
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Interim cowboy report released
Construction minister Nick Raynsford is today due to publish an interim report from the taskforce he set up to help outlaw cowboy builders. The taskforce, headed by Stent Foundations chairman Tony Merricks, has called for the introduction of a Quality Mark to differentiate between reputable builders and cowboys. Raynsford is ...
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Cowboys: what you think
Next week, construction minister Nick Raynsford is expected to launch a massive consultation exercise to find ways to protect homeowners from the menace of cowboy builders.
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DETR scuppers Foster's first UK housing scheme
Foster and Partner's brownfield project withdrawn over affordable housing objections.