All Building articles in 1999 Issue 22 – Page 2

  • Features

    Appointments

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Consultants Lorien Engineering Solutions has appointed Phil Colquhoun project manager. John Dilley has joined the firm as a senior engineer in the utilities engineering department. Matt McCleish has been made process engineer; Steve Bailey has been appointed packaging engineer and Jonathan Cruse and Andrew Kilford ...

  • News

    Costain wins appeal over worker's status

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Court rules that sacked agency safety representative was not an employee of the contractor and so cannot claim unfair dismissal.

  • Features

    Loser takes all

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    A new court procedure caps the amount of legal costs the winner of a case can claim. That s not such good news for winners or for their lawyers, so why not write and tell the Lord Chancellor so?

  • News

    Alfred McAlpine bidder on the prowl for new targets

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    36-year-old entrepreneur Andrew Goodall is targeting other housebuilders for takeover bids.

  • News

    Three shortlisted for £20m Brighton PFI library

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    South coast council wants mixed-use development along the lines of Covent Garden.

  • Features

    Construction's £100m tax demand

    1999-06-04T00:00:00Z

    This August, general contractor Les Winter will charge £9000 to install a central heating system rather than £8000 the difference between what a large subcontractor would charge and a one-man band. The reason for this 12.5% rise is not a forthcoming surge in materials prices, nor a ...