All Building articles in 1999 Issue 19 – Page 2
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Features
Clash points
A recent report shows that clients are happier with the industry than they were in the mid-1990s. But this may merely reflects easier times, rather than better working practices.
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Features
Clash points
The results of the report were striking, and we know from all the demonstration projects that Egan is being taken seriously by the industry and by many of its most important clients.
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Comment
Economic cleansing
The Inland Revenue seems to be trying to drive small companies out of business with its punitive new tax system.
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Features
Materials life costs
Timber windows are the focus of the first in a new series on the whole-life costs of materials, compiled by Building Performance Group to help specifiers and clients.
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Features
Fee enterprise
The JCT s draft consultants agreement is intended to reduce conflict in the industry. In fact, it may do the opposite.
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Features
Trust funds
London housing association the Peabody Trust spends £50m on construction every year. And if you are an innovative architect or a time-saving sustainable contractor, it wants to hear from you.
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News
Wilcon targets top-end homes
The new group managing director of Wilson Connolly wants its housing arm to build larger, more expensive properties. John Tutte, who takes over on 1 July when Ian Black retires, said the firm s Wilcon Homes arm needed to expand at the executive-style end of the market. The ...
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Features
How do you measure up?
Long-awaited details of the government's initiative to help firms gauge their performance in the industry have been released this week. Here's how to work out if you're hitting those Egan targets.
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Features
Purging the industry of racism
Construction is not renowned for its political correctness. But racism is more insidious than bigoted on-site banter other industries employ 70% more black and Asian workers than construction. What is the industry doing about it?
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Features
Raynsford's new marker
Meet Nigel Waterson: he's Nick Raynsford's shadow on planning, housing and construction. He's passionate about his party and says the government has little to offer but hot air and reheated Tory policies.
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News
Measuring performance
New methods for measuring contractors and consultants performance were unveiled this week. The 10 key performance indicators, which are backed by construction minister Nick Raynsford, are intended to show whether industry is meeting the improvement targets set out in the Egan report. Clients are keen to ...
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Features
Plane tale of third parties
Much of the debate on the proposed Contracts Bill centres on the implications of a clause that confers potentially troublesome benefits on third parties not privy to a contract. A flight of fancy or a real worry?
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Features
The puzzle
Daniel Libeskind's £75m extension to the V&A is an engineer's nightmare. No columns are allowed, no walls are vertical. How do you make it stand up?
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