All Building articles in 1999 Issue 27 – Page 2
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Features
Clash points
Half right. In fact, natural justice does apply, albeit within the constraints of adjudication s statutory framework after all, a process that is obviously unfair will not attract many supporters.
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Comment
Reasons to be cheerful
A look at the impact of the Egan report by the man that reported on construction five years ago.
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News
Crest is next to tackle urban challenge
Crest Nicholson is making a big push into high-density, high-design urban residential development on brownfield land. In a presentation to City analysts, Crest announced 11 large sites of which eight are brownfield where it will build mixed-use schemes. Chief executive John Calcutt said: For the ...
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News
HBF launches brownfield hotline
Housebuilders group asks public to report derelict sites suitable for redevelopment in response to urban taskforce report.
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Features
Science building, Bristol University
Bristol University s new, £12m Synthetic Chemistry Building embodies much of the construction industry s post-Latham, post-Egan gospel. Two-stage tendering, a non-adversarial contract, off-site fabrication and value engineering may not be ground-breaking in themselves. But, taken together, they represent a large part of the construction industry s New Testament. ...
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News
BRE to hold life costings
A forum is to be created to share information on the whole-life costs of buildings, with the Building Research Establishment acting as a repository for the data. The decision to create a costings database was made at a seminar last week run by the whole-life costing ...
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News
Blair drives forward with six more PFI hospitals
Prime minister says yes to schemes in Leeds, Oxford, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Derby and Havering.
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Features
Best foot forward
Nancy Cavill meets Dr Jaz Saggu, the man in charge of Bovis' new best-practice training programme.
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News
Tarmac confident it will beat demerger protests
Firm receives enough assurances from investors to see off critics of payments to executives.
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Features
Wessex Water, Bath
A client committed to reducing environmental impact, an architect known for low-energy design and a construction manager anxious to test green construction techniques form the team behind one of the most ambitious of the projects. The £22m operations centre for 550 Wessex Water staff, under way on a rare ...
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Features
The benchmark [Asda superstore, Swansea]
The fourth in Building s series highlighting best practice looks at how Kajima used prefabrication and performance monitoring to achieve major time and cost savings on Asda s new Swansea store. A panel of experts looks at how it was done.
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Features
Appointments
Contractors Ian Smith , formerly with Bovis Construction, has joined building and civil engineering contractor Charles Le Quesne as managing director. John Mowlem has appointed Louisa Blair to its market management contracting and major projects division. Mansell has promoted Philip Cleaver to the newly ...
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News
Amey goes for re-listing
Amey has been tipped to try for a second time to be listed as a support services company, following its acquisition of support services group Comax for £86m last week. The contractor, which has been campaigning to change sector for some time, was refused a re-listing by FTSE indices manager ...
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News
All change at Sir Robert McAlpine
New director of operations appointed as family moves to buy up more of parent company.
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News
Willmott Dixon aims for London interiors market
Contractor ploughs £2.5m into new firm Inspace and aims to build up turnover to £50m in four years.
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News
RIBA forms action plan
The RIBA has issued a five-year action plan to help architects become more efficient and give them enhanced status in society. In a booklet, Meeting the Challenge, a Strategy for Architecture and Architects 1999-2003, published last week, the RIBA urges architects to face up to the requirements of ...
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News
Pressure mounts for cowboys act
Chartered builders have backed consultants in calling for new statutory regulations to stamp out cowboy builders. In a submission to the government, the Chartered Institute of Building has echoed the Construction Industry Council s call (25 June) for the Construction Act and Building Regulations to be strengthened. The CIOB wants ...
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News
‘I’m impressed,’ says Egan about industry progress
One year on from the launch of Rethinking Construction, Sir John Egan gives his annual report.
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Features
How to do 32 jobs at once
The first standard form of contract for facilities management is here, and it covers everything from insurance to cleaning in terms that construction firms will find strangely familiar.
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News
Fees attacked on £250m MPs’ building
Fees for consultants on the new £250m MPs building should be capped, says a new report. The study published last week by QS Northcroft said that fees for consultants on the project, which are currently calculated on a percentage basis, should be converted into lump sum payments. Fees paid ...
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