All Building articles in 2000 Issue 30 – Page 2
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News
Personalities will not stop a merger, says Bryant boss
Housebuilder determined to strike a deal in bid to win over the City as South-east market peaks.
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News
Property boom ending, says RICS
The house price boom has come to an end, according to figures released by the RICS this week. In the three months to July, the number of surveyors reporting price rises fell to its lowest level since 1998. The balance between surveyors reporting a rise over those who saw a ...
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Comment
State benefits
First person The tables have been turned on private clients as the public sector increasingly embraces partnering and best practice.
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Features
The one that got away
Julia Smith had no burning ambition to be a management consultant. In fact, she was a civil engineering masters student at Birmingham University and being sponsored by a major contractor when she went to a milk-round interview with Andersen Consulting. When I went, I had no idea what they ...
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Features
Contractors and housebuilders by employees' average pay
Fit-out and construction management firm Interior Services Group was a lucrative place to work for most employees last year. Earlier this month, it announced pre-tax profit up 91% to £4.2m on a slightly reduced turnover of £370m. The company actually paid its staff less than it did in 1998, but ...
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Centex unveils UK mortgage arm
Centex, the giant US housebuilder that bought Fairclough Homes last year, has launched the UK s first builder-owned mortgage lending operation. The UK-based subsidiary will be called Centex Mortgage Company UK. Headed by one Kevan M Keegan, the business will initially offer loans to Fairclough customers and later to other ...
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Morrison appoints development director
Edinburgh-based Morrison Construction has sent the City a signal of its aggressive expansion plans by appointing its first ever director of corporate development. Iain Robertson, 50, joins from economic development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise, where he was chief executive. He starts work on 1 October with a brief to ...
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Features
Appointments
Contractors Nigel Marks, formerly of Taylor Woodrow, has been appointed development director for Ballast Wiltshier s South-east region. Civil engineering and construction group May Gurney has appointed Bob Drew business development manager, based in Cambridge. Kvaerner Construction has appointed Sunil Shah Singh (right) managing director of Kvaerner Cementation India. Housebuilders ...
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Features
They’re back
A combination of shrewd populism and a government with more leaks than a sea-going sieve has pulled the Tories back from oblivion. So meet Archie Norman and Robert Syms, the men who must convince construction that now might be a good time to get to know the next government. Additional ...
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Features
Archie Norman: Why the Tories’ business plan will work
Archie Norman is worried. He has seen the new offices he will soon inhabit at Portcullis House and is unimpressed. It s a funny set-up, he says. The furnishings are expensive but the actual accommodation is very modest. There are a number of small offices with ...
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Features
Who’d employ an architect?
At least, who d employ one if they are using the new standard contract, SFA/99? It unreasonably limits an architect s liabilities and weighs down a client with onerous obligations.
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Features
It’s good to talk
Rob Smith of Hays Montrose explains why managers have to keep their lines of communication open.
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Features
Top 75 contractors by contracting turnover
In this table, we have ranked firms by the amount of contracting they do. Figures for non-contracting activities, including property, housebuilding and facilities management (which makes up much of the "other" column), are also shown. Just edging into the top spot is Bovis, which handled £2.3bn of contracting – 60% ...
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Features
Top 75 contractors by contracting operating profit
This table is intended to show the profit companies are making from building. Balfour Beatty tops the stakes here with £96m, although its figures are boosted by the fact that all of its activities – including considerable facilities management work for its private finance initiative contracts – are included under ...
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Features
Top 75 contractors by contracting operating margin
This table tells two main stories. First, that the large specialists still make the fattest margins. Steel constructor Severfield-Rowen reported 6.4% and groundwork specialist Keller got a handsome 6.2%. East Anglian contractor Carter also made an impressive 4.4% return, and concrete firm O'Rourke managed 3.6%. Second, it shows that most ...
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News
EU to investigate £60m competition
The European Commission launches inquiry into the jury for the European Parliament Quarter plan.
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News
Two shortlisted for £500m Bristol brownfield scheme
City council to choose between developers Hammerson and Land Securities in October.
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Features
Top 25 contractors in FM by FM turnover
This table was drawn up in recognition of the large number of contractors carrying out infrastructure maintenance and management in the quest for longer-term income streams and better margins.The top of the table is dominated by companies better known as big builders. Amec comes top, with a turnover of £850m, ...
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