All Building articles in 1999 Issue 21 – Page 2
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Denham: Government is committed to PFI
Health minister denies claims that process places onerous demands on firms and explains new guidelines.
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Lovell to follow pure contracting course
Sale of social housing arm to Morgan Sindall will allow Lovell to focus on building and on buying specialists.
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PFI in crisis
Seven years after its creation, the PFI is still giving the industry nightmares. And as the Treasury prepares to change the rules yet again, Building investigates whether the PFI is falling apart and asks contractors and politicians whether it can be saved
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Firms line up to join D&B list
More than 60 firms, including subcontractors and architects, have expressed an interest in the Design Build Foundation s registration policy since its launch eight days ago. Top contractors Tarmac, Try, Matthew Hall, Amec, Balfour Beatty and HBG signed up for the client body s rigorous prequalification assessment at its House ...
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Shepherd loses fourth senior executive
Commercial director Gordon Ray leaves contractor to head up Amec project investment.
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Morrison to expand FM and infrastructure
Contractor Morrison is sizing up several acquisitions in a bid to expand its infrastructure and facilities management to match its larger property division. After announcing a 15% rise in group pre-tax profit to £24.1m for the year to 31 March 1999, chairman Sir Fraser Morrison said: As regards acquisitions, ...
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Features
Get organised
The third in a series on marketing explains how to plan and project manage a strategy to ensure you always stay a few steps ahead of the competition.
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New RIBA housing group
This week saw the launch of Architects in Housing, a RIBA initiative to champion architects as housing designers. Architects in Housing, which supersedes the RIBA s housing group, will work with other housing bodies to improve the quality, value and desirability of new housing a sector that accounts ...
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Just the job
Gleeds PFI expert Jonathan Stewart tells Nancy Cavill how a psychometric test led him to the career that took him all the way to government.
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Keeping tags on it
Embedded chips in components are set to make facilities management an exact science. How do they work?
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Off the waiting list
Staff at Britain's biggest PFI-funded NHS hospital have reason to be excited. The brand new building in East Anglia will house long-overdue, cutting-edge medical facilities, and a close-knit project team is ensuring its smooth operation.
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Manchester has second thoughts
Council reinterviews four contractors because of fears over low bids, but Amec still the favourite for £90m Commonwealth Games deal.
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Welcome to our world
Thirteen months after the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is about to get to grips with the Construction Act. What is there to learn from the past year s experience?
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Taking off
Disenchanted with central government s approach to the private finance initiative? There is a solution. Local authority PFI is getting airborne at Luton Airport and Bovis has just signed the first purely commercial contract.
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