All Building articles in 2000 Issue 10 – Page 2
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Features
City slackers
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?
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Skidmore Owings Merrill leads Canary Wharf charge
300m spec office block to join Canada Square development, with two leisure and retail centres nearby.
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Laing poaches Mowlem boss May
Laing headhunts rival’s head of building operations as chief executive resigns after 14 months in post.
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Private sector boosts output
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 ...
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BICC to halve suppliers
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 ...
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How to lose before you start
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.
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Rogers' bashful City building revealed
Surrounded by older buildings, Lloyd's Register of Shipping isn't as in-your-face as Rogers' other landmarks.
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Arbitration usurped
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.
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Appointments
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 ...
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American architect climbs on housing bandwagon
Gensler wins its first UK housing scheme for Taylor Woodrow in London’s St John’s Wood.
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… While contractors slam lack of firm plans
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 ...
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Let’s get it together
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.
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Try profit up 48%
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 ...
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Porphyrios to masterplan £100m Rochester revival
Berkeley Homes chooses neoclassical architect to lead exemplary brownfield regeneration project.
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