All Building articles in 2000 Issue 24 – Page 2

  • Features

    The away game

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    In the third article on the FIDIC suite of international forms, they are found wanting when it comes to recovery of costs because of incidents outside contractors control.

  • News

    Jarvis brushes aside City takeover rumours

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor denies it is vulnerable as chief executive insists his management team is the best for the job.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractors Midas Construction has appointed Nigel Tiffin, previously with EBC Building and Maintenance, senior estimator. David Tennant has been appointed group environmental manager at MJ Gleeson. Housebuilders Steve Wiseman has been promoted to Scottish regional managing director at housebuilder McCarthy & Stone. Alistair Hare has been promoted to group commercial ...

  • News

    Allies and Morrison to win slice of Manchester flagship

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Architect expected to beat four rivals to 12 000 m 2 office and retail building in £500m city-centre regeneration.

  • News

    Milburn halts London PFI hospital after beds rethink

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary puts Amec and Balfour s £160m UCL scheme on hold as fears emerge about bed numbers.

  • News

    Berkeley launches TV ads

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Berkeley Group this week became the first housebuilder to launch a television advertising campaign since Barratt in the 1980s. But unlike Barratt s campaign, which featured a thrusting executive dictating a hard sell to the viewer from a helicopter racing over a housing development, Berkeley has opted for a more ...

  • Features

    Ideas above its station

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Walsall's landmark bus station does a lot more than shield passengers from the rain. It makes double-decker travel glamorous.

  • News

    MDA abandons central London HQ

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyor MDA is closing its central London office and moving the staff to its base in Croydon, Surrey. The move from Portland House, Victoria, is almost complete, with the last of the 150 staff leaving today. STG, the investment firm that owns 29.75% of MDA, is known to have ...

  • News

    HOK to masterplan Birmingham’s Eastside

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Architect to plan 10-year redevelopment of city s historic core into leisure, learning and technology quarter.

  • News

    Cut minister’s planning powers, say Tories

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Shadow environment spokesman Archie Norman has called for the abolition of the secretary of state s power to intervene in planning decisions. The proposal is contained in a draft document due to be published next month that outlines Conservative Party policy on planning and housebuilding. Former Asda boss Norman has ...

  • News

    Swaying bridge is ‘engineering tragedy’

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Top engineer says closure of Foster/Ove Arup s Millennium Bridge is a body blow to UK engineering.

  • News

    MEPC may dump Laing after £20m Cardiff row

    2000-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Developer s decision to sack contractor on Wales office could threaten long-term relationship.