All Building articles in 2000 Issue 38 – Page 2

  • News

    Glasgow council and firms unite to avert skills crisis

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Council joins 35 construction firms to offer apprenticeships and training to cope with flurry of projects.

  • Features

    Arbitration: The problem of free will

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    If the act does give ammunition to disgruntled losing parties, arbitration is in big trouble. But does it?

  • Features

    Appointments

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsAndrew White, managing director of special projects at Alfred McAlpine, has joined the company’s board as an executive director. Christopher Collins, chairman of Hanson, has been made a non-executive director. Richard Clay has been promoted to surveying director at Hertfordshire-based Ashe Construction. Andrew Morris has become commercial director. David Ainge ...

  • News

    Allen to lose subsidiary

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Contracting and tool-hire firm Allen has announced that it is selling G Pearce, its non-specialist civil engineering subsidiary. If a buyer cannot be found before the end of the year, the company will be closed.Chairman Donald Greenhalgh said the move was part of the company’s increasing focus on hire and ...

  • Features

    ADR: Pressure points

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    It’s a good bet that any whiff of coercion in an ADR procedure will give rise to a human rights defence.

  • Comment

    An adjudicator is not a judge

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    The Human Rights Act has jurisdiction over those whose work is of a public nature. But an adjudicator is a private person performing a private function, so he must remain outside the scope of the act.

  • News

    Jury out over adjudication after judge scraps ruling

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Glut of court cases is predicted after adjudicator’s phone call is found to be breach of natural justice.

  • Features

    The Human Rights Act

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Overview: What the new rules will mean

  • News

    Balfour Beatty buys rail firm for £94m

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty is to acquire the rail business of American rolling-stock operator Adtranz, it was announced this week.Chief executive Mike Welton said the £94m deal was an important step towards Balfour’s aim of becoming the world’s leading rail infrastructure firm.The remainder of Adtranz, which is currently owned by DaimlerChrysler, is ...

  • News

    Treasury to back Rogers’ urban agenda

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    THE Treasury has given the broadest hint yet that it will introduce fiscal measures to support urban regeneration.The chief adviser to the Treasury, Ed Balls, speaking at the Core Cities Conference in Sheffield last Friday, said: “The government and the Treasury are responding to the challenge that the Rogers report ...

  • Comment

    Norm’s the norm

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    First person Love it or loathe it, at least Lord Foster’s work has a distinctive style. It’s just a shame so many architects copy it.

  • Features

    Who says Glasgow’s miles better?

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh’s waterfront development is steaming ahead while arch-rival Glasgow struggles to stay in contention.

  • Features

    The future’s now

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    How the next 20 years pan out for construction depends on what the industry does today – a government consultation paper, Building Our Future, gives us the chance to consider the opportunities and the risks.

  • News

    BBC to give Portland Place £120m refurb

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Fletcher Priest, MacCormac Jamieson & Prichard, Stanton Williams and Alsop & Störmer in shortlist.