All Building articles in 2000 Issue 10 – Page 2

  • Features

    City slackers

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?

  • News

    Skidmore Owings Merrill leads Canary Wharf charge

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    300m spec office block to join Canada Square development, with two leisure and retail centres nearby.

  • News

    Laing poaches Mowlem boss May

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Laing headhunts rival’s head of building operations as chief executive resigns after 14 months in post.

  • News

    Private sector boosts output

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Private industrial and commercial building boosted construction output in the fourth quarter of 1999, according to DETR figures.The total volume of construction output grew 1% compared with the previous quarter. New work in the period was 2% up on the previous quarter and 5% higher than in the same period ...

  • News

    BICC to halve suppliers

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty parent BICC plans to cut the number of suppliers it employs from 15 000 to 8000 in the next 12-18 months.Chief executive Mike Welton made the announcement as he reported a £19m fall in pre-tax profit to £51m before exceptional items for 1999.Welton said the changes would affect ...

  • Features

    How to lose before you start

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Act's payment rules have been overshadowed by adjudication. However, in tandem, they give contractors a super way to pole-axe an unwary client.

  • News

    Rogers' bashful City building revealed

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Surrounded by older buildings, Lloyd's Register of Shipping isn't as in-your-face as Rogers' other landmarks.

  • Features

    Arbitration usurped

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a new series on dispute resolution methods, we look at how arbitration has failed to achieve the objectives set out for it in the Arbitration Act 1996.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsAndy Stoddart has been promoted to managing director of Morgan Sindall.David Thomas has been appointed marketing manager for Ballast Wiltshier’s South-west operation.Martin Doe has been appointed strategic sales and marketing director of Laing’s construction arm.HousebuildersBeazer Homes has appointed Bernard Evans construction director.David Bemister has been promoted to site manager at ...

  • News

    American architect climbs on housing bandwagon

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Gensler wins its first UK housing scheme for Taylor Woodrow in London’s St John’s Wood.

  • News

    … While contractors slam lack of firm plans

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Defence Estates announced a £4bn spending programme at the prime contracting conference, but many contractors criticised it for failing to provide more details on proposed schemes.Prime contracting project manager Alison Slade told contractors that a series of five-year contracts would be let throughout the UK between 2002 and 2004. Slade ...

  • Features

    Let’s get it together

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Uncoordinated specifications can result in chaos and even claims. The architect (and its spec writer) could do something about it – if only they could get involved from the start.

  • News

    Try profit up 48%

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Construction and maintenance builder Try Group increased its pre-tax profit 48% to £5m on turnover up 10% to £166m.Group chief executive David Calverley attributed this increase to strong growth in the homes business, which increased its operating profit 50% to £5.4m on turnover up 36% to £39.7m. This was helped ...

  • News

    Porphyrios to masterplan £100m Rochester revival

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Berkeley Homes chooses neoclassical architect to lead exemplary brownfield regeneration project.