All Building articles in 1999 Issue 42 – Page 2
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Features
The bluffer's guide to object technology
Intimidated at parties by your peers' ability to converse freely about object specification and interoperability? Perhaps you're going to the wrong parties. But don't panic – this clear and simple guide will have even the technophobes cornering each other for in-depth chats.
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News
Home Office PFI bidder threatens to pull out
New bid documents require more detailed information and increase risk, claims shortlisted team.
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Comment
Why should banks be secure?
What can you do when the firm that's just taken £10k of goods from you goes belly-up? The answer is: not much – after the bank's receiver has made sure the bank gets its cash back. That may be about to change.
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News
Baldrick bolsters Stonehenge PFI team
Teams shortlisted for the development of a visitor centre at Stonehenge have signed up some celebrity help.Tony Robinson, best known as Baldrick in BBC TV's Blackadder and now presenter of archeological programme Time Team, and Princess Diana's brother Lord Althorp are advising consortia for the private finance initiative project.According ...
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News
Raynsford: housebuilders' leagues next autumn
Minister tells housebuilders at Housing Forum annual conference that he wants tables in 12 months.
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News
Open up, Smith tells architects
Culture Secretary Chris Smith this week challenged architects to open up the profession to the wider public, and particularly to ethnic minorities.Speaking at the launch of Architecture Week 1999 on Tuesday, Chris Smith said one of his personal objectives as culture minister was "to challenge, and, where possible, break down ...
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News
Cyril Sweett unveils one-stop advice shop
QS's new 40-strong division to provide strategic advice not tied to specific construction projects.
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Features
Top 75 Quantity Surveyors
The top 10 quantity surveyors have increased their staff by 7% in the past year, with Davis Langdon & Everest slugging it out with Currie & Brown for the title of biggest recruiter: both have increased their numbers by almost 100. Across the rest of the chart, staff increases are ...
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Features
Top 75 building surveyors
This year's building surveyors league table is augmented by 37 new entries, most of them small practices with fewer than 15 staff. The firms at the top of the table are familiar names, however, with Chesterton overtaking WS Atkins to reach number one. On paper, WS Atkins appears to have ...
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News
Coalfields' £354m scheme
Deputy prime minister John Prescott this week launched a £12m public-private scheme to develop 50 000 m2 of office space in former coalfield regions.Prescott launched the scheme called Network Space, a joint venture between English Partnerships and St Helens-based Langtree Group, on Monday at the 1999 Coalfields Conference in ...
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Simms to get £3.4m if Carillion shares double
Carillion chairman Sir Neville Simms could bag more than £3m if he can double the former Tarmac construction arm's share price over the next three years.The company announced last week that 121 directors and senior managers had signed up to the management incentive scheme, called the "Founder's Equity ...
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Features
Top 250 consultants
Building's league table of Britain's top architects, engineers and surveyors is back, with a new section on the highest fee earners. Where do you come?
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Features
Top 100 fee earners
This year's questionnaire for the 1999 consultants survey included a new section: performance ratios. Practices were asked to calculate their fee-earning capacity by dividing their annual fee income by the number of chartered staff.Taking the top 250 consultants across all disciplines, 100 firms have been ranked in order of the ...
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News
£1bn Rochester shortlist
Three consortia have been shortlisted for the £1bn redevelopment of Rochester riverside.Berkeley Homes with HTA Architects, Crest Nicholson with Tibbalds Monro Architects and Wimpey with PRC Fewster Architects were chosen this week by Medway council from a longlist of seven.The four teams will make proposals for a mixed-use development on ...
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News
Wembley appoints advisers for £1bn development
Architect and QS chosen for huge regeneration scheme for run-down area around stadium.
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