All Building articles in 2000 Issue 08 – Page 2
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News
Tilbury to relist after sale of housing arm
Persimmon buys Scottish housing arm for £22.8m as Tilbury Douglas plans move to support services sector.
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Features
Added extras
The team building Foster’s fencing mask – also known as the GLA headquarters – has a new weapon to fight inefficiency: a secure extranet that holds documents and drawings.
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News
O’Rourke pulls the plug on Swift
Ray O’Rourke refuses to keep Swift afloat one week after buying concrete framework specialist.
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Kvaerner: we’re happy contracting
Kvaerner Construction has announced a pre-tax profit rise of 52% to £27.3m for the year to 31 December 1999. Turnover grew 10% to £1.3bn for the year and construction margins rose from 1.5% to 2.1%.Chief executive Keith Clarke attributed the results to a strategy that began four years ago. This ...
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Features
What’s the meaning of this?
Collateral warranties are highly controversial, ferociously contested and poorly understood. This is the first article in a series intended to tackle the third of these problems.
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News
CABE aims to stop ‘dog’s dinner’ PFI designs
Commission for Architecture and Built Environment in talks with Treasury to revise guidelines.
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Irish firms lack capacity for £4bn roads programme
Irish roadbuilding agency’s warning opens door for British and international contractors.
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NHS to set up £3bn of framework deals
NHS Estates is to set up a list of preferred contractors and consultants to carry out its £3bn annual construction spend, writes Andy Cook.NHS Estates chief executive Kate Priestley explained that the client wanted to set up a framework of construction suppliers on three- to five-year frameworks similar to those ...
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Jarvis invests £15m in mobile phone IT system
Upgraded mobiles, to be introduced next year, will be central to WAP revolution.
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