All Building articles in 1999 Issue 30 – Page 2
-
News
Cities gear up for regeneration race
Manchester, Sheffield and Wembley authorities to form public-private partnerships, as recommended by Lord Rogers.
-
News
Government rejects CITB call over levy
The government has rejected a request from the Construction Industry Training Board to lower the threshold at which firms pay the construction levy.The CITB wanted the government to lower the threshold from companies with a PAYE tax bill of £61 000 to those with a bill of £45 000. ...
-
News
Southern success boosts Bryant result
But housebuilder’s northern operations see more modest sale price increases as group profit rises to 10-year high of £67.1m.
-
News
Audit of DETR's move to new HQs ordered
Quantity surveyor WT to examine difficulties and identify whether costs and quality targets were achieved.
-
News
Asbestos ban moves closer
The European Commission this week announced a ban on the use of white, or chrysotile, asbestos from 2005.Construction union UCATT, which has campaigned for a ban in the UK, welcomed the commission’s decision, which will prohibit the use of the material in cement products such as pipes and roofing.UCATT safety ...
-
News
Approval for Chipperfield Berlin masterplan
A masterplan drawn up by David Chipperfield Architects for Berlin’s historic museums has got the go-ahead.The £690m, 10-year project to redevelop the five classical buildings that house the city’s archeological collections is set be Berlin’s largest regeneration scheme after the commercial Potzdamerplatz.The existing buildings are suffering from neglect as they ...
-
Features
Appointments
ContractorsStourbridge-based MJC Construction has appointed Simon Jones contracts manager. David Hollick has been appointed special works manager and Tony Shaw becomes chief estimator.Stansell has appointed Bill Badham area director for Bristol.Stan Bakowski has been appointed director of Frederick J French.Housebuilders John Tutte has been promoted to group managing director at ...
-
News
Treasury announces changes to energy levy
The Government this week announced some exemptions to its climate-change levy on gas, coal and electricity used in business.Economic secretary to the Treasury Patricia Hewitt said on Tuesday that fuel used as a raw material in chemical, steel and aluminium production would be exempt from the tax, which will be ...
-
News
Fresh Amec strategy starts with USA
US business to shift away from high-rise office development towards high-growth industries.
-
News
Urgent safety probe after tower block fire
Parliamentary select committee investigates cladding problems following fatal blaze in Ayrshire.
-
Features
Adjudication: a case for change
Failure to comply with procedural requirements could jeopardise the validity of adjudication, but a Court of Appeal judgment may force a look at the effect of the non-compliance rather than the letter of the law.
-
News
Housing chief admits minorities ‘glass ceiling’
The chairman of the Housing Corporation has conceded that staff from ethnic minorities often lose out in the race for promotion but strongly denied this is because of institutional racism.Questioned about the paucity of black and ethnic minority staff in senior positions, chairman Baroness Dean said last week: “There is ...
-
News
LU reassures bidders over £7bn Tube deal
London Transport chief Tunnicliffe says public-private partnership consortia will be given enough information to assess risk.
-
News
Jarvis on brink of winning £350m-plus Railtrack job
Contractor close to rehabilitation with City by clinching deal to upgrade West Coast Main Line.
-
News
AYH boosts profit and turnover 20%
Construction and property consultant AYH lifted pre-tax profit 20% to £915 000 for the year to 31 December 1998; turnover increased 19% to £11.1m.The company also said year-end workload levels were well above those of 12 months earlier, and it forecast that pre-tax profit would break the £1m barrier ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Next Page