All Building articles in 1999 Issue 41 – Page 2
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Features
Bargain basement
A revolutionary Swedish system of prefabricated housebuilding promises to slash construction costs — starting with an easy-to-assemble domestic basement.
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Balfour leads charge to slash PFI debt cost
Analyst estimates that company can save £5m on 30-year private finance initiative project.
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Bairstow to leave troubled Schal
Schal managing director leaves for parent Carillion following discontent among leading clients.
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Cost model: Audiovisual systems
In this mini cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the costs of audiovisual systems, which are appearing everywhere in the workplace, from offices to in-house gyms, and across the leisure industry in pubs, restaurants and football grounds
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Arup Associates' Burland to go solo
The design director of multidisciplinary firm Arup Associates, James Burland, will leave the firm at the end of this year.Burland, 45, will continue as an independent consultant to the practice after 1 January 2000.Since becoming design director in 1992, Burland oversaw the growth of the firm from 50 to 120 ...
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Appointments
ContractorsMidas Construction has promoted Steve Russell to technical services director and Nalin Seneviratne to area manager in Plymouth and south Devon.Andrew Friend, formerly with Macquarie Bank, has joined Laing as managing director of UK investment.Building, civil engineering and utility contractor Lowbury Construction has appointed Richard Bryce-Smith to head its marketing ...
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Housebuilders applaud DETR homes report
Housebuilders have welcomed a report compiled for the DETR that has called for an additional 1.1 million homes to be built in the South-east by 2016.Projections from local authorities in the South-east had estimated that the number of new homes required would be 668 000, but an expert panel commissioned ...
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Winner takes all (maybe)
Whose side are you on – the one that says the loser in an adjudication should pay the winner’s costs, or the other that says each party should pay their own costs, never mind who wins?
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Row brews over material to be used in Albert Hall
French manufacturer’s terracotta blocks fail strength tests on £60m lottery refurbishment.
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Amec six weeks ahead on MOD job
AMEC will complete its prime-contracting pilot project for the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Estates six weeks ahead of schedule, according to its latest forecast.Amec saved time on the project by starting the piling package seven weeks early and installing the steel frame nine weeks before it was planned in the ...
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Bechtel may lose JLE bonus as sparks strike again
Second walkout in five days could mean US troubleshooter loses £10m payment for finishing by 2000.
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Railtrack won’t be kicked off Tube contract
London Underground has dismissed speculation that it has called off talks with Railtrack over a sub–surface Tube line contract in the wake of the Paddington disaster.A spokesman said: “There are no plans to look elsewhere. We have not put the discussions on hold, they are still ongoing.” He said LU ...
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It’s a score draw now
The Macob hearing showed that an adjudicator’s ruling was enforceable in the short term, even if it was procedurally dodgy. But a new case suggests there is more to it than that.
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£80m Edinburgh PFI school deal delayed
Plan to build 12 schools and revamp three others put on hold for six months as council overhauls consultation process.
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Manchester police plans £47m, 18-station PFI deal
Greater Manchester Police submits plans to Treasury for first ever bundled PFI police station deal.
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More firms line up for £160m BT bonanza
Mitie, Honeywell Controls, Johnson Controls and Building & Property are the latest companies to form alliances in a bid to win a slice of BT’s yearly £160m maintenance spend.It is understood that contractor Mitie has teamed up with the Dalkia/Bovis partnership and that building management specialist Honeywell has joined the ...
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