All Building articles in 2000 Issue 19 – Page 2
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Features
Career, girls?
The industry just can’t attract enough graduates. To find out why, Building asked two students to give construction a try. Will they be back for more?
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Buy now, save later
Expense is putting smaller construction firms off IT – but only if they haven’t looked at the costs of not investing. But how can they find out what’s right for them?
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News
Bovis Lelliott bosses quit
The managing director and surveying director of Bovis Lend Lease’s fit-out business, Bovis Lelliott, have resigned to take a controlling stake in a smaller London-based contractor. David Brewin, 43, is to become managing director of Eugena, a £15m-turnover local authority housing specialist based in Walthamstow, north-east London. Ian Weatherburn, 42, ...
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PFI body Partnerships UK names chief
Partnerships UK, the government’s advisory body for private finance initiative clients, has named its chief executive designate.James Stewart, formerly head of project finance, Europe at Newcourt Capital, the European investment-banking arm of CIT Group, will take up the post within the next four weeks.The announcement comes as two high-profile PFI ...
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Tube bidders may shut down stations
Underground stations in central London and suburbs at risk under public-private partnership contracts.
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Beatrice goes on site at Coin Street
The jobBeatrice spent two weeks getting to grips with all areas of contracting at Mansell’s major works division. She spent most of her time on site at an £11m residential scheme for the Coin Street Community Builders near Waterloo Station in London. David Stones, managing director of Mansell’s London Major ...
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Appointments
Contractors Ballast Wiltshier chief executive Bob Heathfield has been made chairman. He has also joined the management executive committee of its Dutch parent, Ballast Nedam.William Underwood has been appointed non-executive director at Middlewich-based Pochin.HousebuilderPersimmon Homes has promoted Ian Hessay to deputy managing director in the Yorkshire region.ConsultantsConsulting engineer Donald Smith ...
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Flagship brownfield project almost doubles in value
Project Vauxhall in south London now worth extra £190m as housing density rises and facilities are increased.
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Does the Construction Act really work?
According to a Building/CMS Cameron McKenna survey, subcontractors are grumbling about its payment system, lawyers are using it to sandbag the opposition, and almost everyone has reservations about its adjudication rules. Two years on and with a review imminent, should changes be made?
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Clare’s seven days as a surveyor
The jobClare spent one week and two days in the quantity surveying department at Citex. QS Melissa Martin drew up a timetable of events so that Clare would sample building surveying, project management and facilities management. The assignment also included a number of site visits. Week oneMonday I meet Melissa ...
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Green lobby slams housebuilders’ snub
AN environmental group has attacked housebuilders for ignoring green issues.Business in the Environment, whose members include Slough Estates and Laing, said none of the top 10 housebuilders (ranked by capitalisation) had submitted data for its index of environmental good behaviour.The index, in its fourth year, assesses the impact that companies ...
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Wembley: it’s a result
The new national stadium at Wembley looks certain to go ahead after the developer offered £17m to improve the surrounding area.As Building revealed last week, Brent council is recommending planning approval for the scheme, following talks between developer Wembley National Stadium and the government taskforce set up to regenerate the ...
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Brindleyplace office wins ‘Best of Best’ award
An office designed by Stanton Williams in Birmingham’s Brindleyplace development has won this year’s British Council for Offices’ “Best of the Best” award. The judges found the speculative building “more innovative in the field and civically responsible than any of the other new projects”. Its environmental control system combines displacement ...
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Danger – slippery law
If an adjudicator makes a decision that contains an obvious mistake, then tough. It’s supposed to be a rough-and-ready system for settling disputes … But then again, surely that’s too ridiculous to be true?
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Construction Act to stay as it is – at least until 2001
DETR reviews the act but rules out the immediate primary legislation demanded by specialist contractors.
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200-mile-high club
An orbital hotel sounds like science fiction, but it might soon be construction fact. If one international design firm has its way, you could be checking in to space in less than 20 years.
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