All Building articles in 1999 Issue 18
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100 estates staff to go at Boots
Boots the Chemists is expected to make 100 staff redundant after an overhaul of its in-house property and planning arm. The division, which employs 360 people, is being trimmed after a decision to buy in more services from outside. The 100 job losses will be made through redundancies, natural wastage ...
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ABK wins £25m Manchester mixture
Ahrends Burton & Koralek to design Urban Space Management's Hulme High Street regeneration project.
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Sir Neville Simms: Why I’m giving in to City demands strip
Tarmac chief executive Sir Neville Simms believed he had pared back his business enough when he swapped his housing arm for Wimpey s minerals business in 1996. But with Tarmac s share price remaining well below what Sir Neville believes is its true value, he is now preparing a further ...
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Keith Clarke: We’d rather be dull and profitable than all boats and flags
Trafalgar House was a symbol of the buccaneering 1980s, as the £3.2bn-a-year Ritz Hotels-to-contracting group seemed to grow and grow. Returns for investors shot up, too, until inflation slowed and Trafalgar House hit trouble. The party was over long before Norwegian giant Kvaerner bought the firm in 1996, but for ...
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ACE fears cut in transport spend will harm engineering
Report voices concern that government policy to favour rail sector will create problems for road engineers.
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Acquisition helps Westbury hit record profit
Housebuilder Westbury has announced a record profit for the 12 months since it bought John Maunders. Pre-tax profit rose 44% to £44.1m in the year to 28 February 1999, with house sales up 24% to 4283. This figure included 942 sales from former John Maunders businesses, which Westbury bought last ...
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Added value
When one of the UK s fastest growing construction companies decided to overhaul its accounts system, it opted for a Window-based solution, that gave employees the independence to access the network.
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Muf wins St Albans Roman visitor centre
Collective beats six other practices in competition to build a £500 000 landmark visitor centre on ancient site.
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Sir Frank Lampl: Jumping the P&O ship will allow Bovis to chart its own destiny
For Bovis chairman Sir Frank Lampl, winning the contract to build Eurodisney in spring 1987 was a highlight of his career one of the first forays out of the UK that transformed the contractor. Unfortunately, the stock market was not similarly overjoyed the share price of ...
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Mike Welton: Unravelling from cables will allow Balfour Beatty to be a pure contractor
British Insulated Calendar Cables has been one of the great names of UK industry for 30 years, spending much of that time as one of the country s top 100 companies. When contracting faltered, the cables business rescued it, and vice versa. At least that was the idea, but cables ...
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Another fine mess?
The Inland Revenue s new tax scheme for the construction industry expands the definition of those deemed to be contractors and renders employers liable to penalties if there is non-compliance.
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Appointments
Contractors David Taylor has joined the Scottish construction division of MJ Gleeson to head its private finance initiative unit. Peter Warters has been appointed marketing manager at Alfred McAlpine Construction. Shepherd Construction has appointed Peter Horsburgh regional director for London and the South-east. Try Construction has appointed ...
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Aussie bank tipped to buy Kvaerner arm
But industry sources question propriety of selling division with PFI equity stakes before projects are complete.
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Top Ove Arup engineer Wise takes sabbatical
Ove Arup & partners director Chris Wise is to take a sabbatical to write, broadcast and teach. Wise, who became one of Britain s most highly rated engineers after working on the American Air Museum at Duxford, Frankfurt s Commerzbank and London s Millennium Bridge, will leave the firm in ...
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Cala buyout team awaits Miller move
Managers on tenterhooks as rival ponders increased bid for Scots housebuilder.
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Leaks put BT back two months
Facade and water ingress headaches at pioneering Essex office will mean delay in occupation and estimated extra costs of £3m.
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Ex-Mowlem chair Beck to head Railtrack
Ex-Mowlem chairman Sir Philip Beck is to become chairman of Railtrack from July. Sir Philip, who left Mowlem in 1995, has been a non-executive director of Railtrack since the same year and succeeds Sir Robert Horton. A Cambridge-educated engineer, Sir Philip became chairman of Mowlem in 1979 and oversaw a ...
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Clients blast industry's partnering record
Slough Estates' Rimmer and Railtrack's Murray slate contractors for not understanding process.
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Consultants desperate to block procurement changes
Treasury stands firm over prime contracting, which CIC negotiating team denounces as laughably naïve .
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McAlpine boss fends off investor putsch
Whitehead to maintain strategy as Phillips & Drew backs mystery buyer.