All Building articles in 2000 Issue 09 – Page 2
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Senior JLE staff charged with fraud and corruption
Directors of top QS accused of conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to corrupt and fraudulent trading.
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Features
A cautionary tale
Ceramica, a landmark millennium project intended to help regenerate a depressed Potteries town, has been mothballed before it could open. It was brought down by problems that could threaten any lottery project.
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Miller buys Scots housebuilder
Highly acquisitive contractor Miller Group has bought another housebuilder, Scottish firm John Lynch Builders. Miller has not disclosed how much it paid for the family-owned housebuilder, but it is believed to be upward of £10m. The move follows its acquisition last October of Newcastle housebuilder Cussins for £23.2m.John Lynch builds ...
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Wilson Bowden makes record profit
Top 10 housebuilder Wilson Bowden continued the good news in the sector when it announced record profit this week. The Leicester-based firm’s pre-tax profit rose 25% to £100.6m in the year to 31 December 1999. Expansion of its geographical coverage and product diversification helped boost the firm, which achieved a ...
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Virtual Basingstoke
It's been done before but never on this scale. And it has real wow impact with potential customers. For the developer it's a way of pinpointing errors before it is too late and for the facilities manager a treasure trove of maintenance data.
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Comment
Our bad-taste dinners
First person The annual dinner is a stuffy tradition construction needs to update — and that means more than just changing the dress code.
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Features
Asking for trouble
This is the story of a company that went to adjudication and ended up with exactly what it said it wanted in its referral notice – and no more.
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Architects commute to Japan on ferry job
Staff at avant-garde practice Foreign Office Architects will travel between London and Japan for the next two years to oversee construction of Yokohama International Port terminal (shown as a CAD image above).The five-year-old practice won an international competition to design the £130m ferry terminal, which must be finished by 2002, ...
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Appointments
ContractorsAndrew Parrish has been appointed non-xecutive director of Carillion.Amec Construction has appointed Helen Rowley quality co-ordinator for construction operations in southern England.Ray Bell, previously with Christiani & Nielsen, has joined Wrekin Construction as head of its new rail division.Yorkshire-based S Harrison Construction has promoted Stephen Jenneson to construction director. Adrian ...
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East Anglia: Good, but not great
Workloads in Cambridge and Norwich are good, but not spectacular. The market is healthy enough for contractor Fitzpatrick to set up an office to service Cambridge and Peterborough, and consultants in Cambridge reckon that workload is about 5% higher than last year. Stephen Bugg, a partner in Davis Langdon & ...
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Swift Horsman stands alone
Joinery specialist Swift Horsman has distanced itself from troubled concrete-frame contractor Swift Structures by announcing that the Halligan brothers, former owners of Swift Structures, are to resign from the board.Swift Horsman directors have written to clients saying that the company, which is carrying out a £5m joinery contract at Portcullis ...
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Features
All change
As chair of the RICS' Junior Organisation, Jacqueline Fearon personifies the young, dynamic image that the body is trying to promote in its Agenda for Change.
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Belfast Airport goes to court over rival plan
Belfast International Airport owner TBI has launched a High Court action to halt the construction of a £30m terminal at another airport in the city, which started on site last year.TBI has asked for a judicial review of the planning approval granted by the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment ...
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HBG to cut jobs after hostile bid, says City
Rationalisation expected after Dutch contractor issues protective shares to fight off takeover.
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MOD stung into action over prime contracts
The Ministry of Defence is set to announce a tranche of prime contracts this week after criticism from main contractors that too few contracts had been released.The announcement, which was due to have been made yesterday at a Defence Estates conference, will coincide with the publication of details of the ...
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Features
Sunny intervals in South Wales …
The Welsh market is split between the potential boom of the South and the continued stultifying of mid-Wales. In the Welsh capital, a combination of the Cardiff Bay makeover, including the Wales Millennium Centre, the National Assembly and the Millennium Stadium has fuelled an explosion of hotels, bars and restaurants. ...
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… and in the South-west
Bristol continues to attract the majority of developments in the South-west. The hiccup for Crest Nicholson’s £200m mixed-use Harbourside development, refused planning permission and being appealed, is counteracted by the success of the £300m Temple Quay regeneration scheme in the city, which is well under way. Fitzroy Robinson has designed ...
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Features
Where are tomorrow’s leaders?
The City is beginning to worry that, as contracting’s top bosses edge closer to retirement, the industry is not doing enough to find and groom their successors.
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Comment
Just who’s in charge?
Second opinion Recent squabbles at the Architects Registration Board have led to four high-profile resignations. What’s up?
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SNP slams Scots parliament as cost estimates hit £230m
Party leader Alex Salmond attacks Catalan architect Enric Miralles, Bovis Lend Lease and RMJM.
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