All Building articles in 2000 Issue 16 – Page 2
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Carillion and Westbury win Building Awards
Carillion Building the contractor that demerged from Tarmac last year, and innovative housebuilder Westbury Homes headed the roll-call of winners at the 2000 Building Awards.Others to triumph included Davis Langdon & Everest, the world’s largest quantity surveyor; Chetwood Associates, architect of J Sainsbury’s eco-store in Greenwich and former Mace chief ...
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Prefab arm for Westbury
Top six housebuilder Westbury has put £10m into a new prefabricated division that it claims will halve building time.The new outfit, which is called Space4, is due to start production in 2001 and is expected to turn out 5000 houses a year when fully operational, compared with the 4300 Westbury ...
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Appointments
ContractorsGraham Pryor has been promoted to business development manager of Kier International.Bowmer & Kirkland has appointed Paul Lomas main board director. Ipswich-based Barnes Construction has appointed Nick Fayers divisional managing director. Peter Baggott has joined Barnes & Elliott, a division of Morgan Sindall, as regional director. Robert Ellams has joined ...
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Know it all
A knows the answer to B’s problem. C knows B has a problem, but left the pub before D said A had the answer. Hmmmm. If only there was some way of pooling all that knowledge …
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Industry picked to advise on e-commerce revolution
National Computing Centre brings together government and construction to trailblaze electronic trading.
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… and joins Farrell for Canary Riverside job
Richard Rogers Partnership and Terry Farrell & Partners are expected to win work on the next phase of the £300m Canary Riverside development in London Docklands.It is understood that a design decision on the next, £200m phase is imminent, although it is not known whether the architects are in competition ...
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Hopkins’ Nottingham campus faces legal threat
Specialists claim they are owed money for extra work on ground-breaking “green” scheme.
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Let’s get one thing clear
A number of high-profile failures have made some people wonder whether structural glazing is worth the potential grief. In fact, there’s a simple way to take most of the risk out of design.
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Dome tells unpaid firms to ‘back off’
New Millennium Experience Company has asked contractors owed money for work on the dome to “back off” after admitting it owes substantial amounts to a number of firms.A spokesperson for NMEC said: “There is a backlog of smaller-value bills outstanding but we have no figure for the total amount. Our ...
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Case exposes ‘serious loophole’ in adjudication
Judge Dyson ruling may allow losing party to suspend payment if winner is in financial difficulties.
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150 sparks picket £154m Pfizer job
Up to 150 striking electricians are continuing to picket the £154m Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Sandwich, Kent. The workers were sacked last week by M&E contractor Balfour Kilpatrick after they went on unofficial strike over alleged safety concerns at the site. Bob Johnson, account manager at construction manager Amec, denied ...
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DETR halts £135m London brownfield homes deal
Wandsworth council slams “outrageous” decision to call in plan for redeveloping a Shell Oil terminal.
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Koolhaas wins $100 000 Pritzker prize
Avant-garde Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, worth $100 000 in cash. The 56-year-old senior partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam is famous for turning conventions of modern architecture and urban design on their head. His 1994 exhibition hall in Lille, northern ...
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