All Building articles in 2000 Issue 40 – Page 2
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Features
The stuff of beams
FBEAM is a new software tool for designing long-span fabricated beams in commercial buildings. Is this the program structural engineers have been waiting for?
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Banks pours scorn on Olympic stadium venue
Picketts Lock would not work; Wembley is the only place worth considering, says former sports minister.
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Henry Boot buys back shares
Construction and housebuilding group Henry Boot has bought back 764 000 shares this year because of “unreasonable” falls in their price. Group managing director Jamie Boot said the firm would consider buying back more shares if their poor performance continued. He said: “We are still disappointed with the share price. ...
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Industry hits autumn high
Construction activity reached a three-month high last month, although the fuel crisis may cause a slowdown in months to come.Figures from the BuildOnline/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index showed the sector’s strongest growth overall since June, at 59.9. Commercial construction was the strongest division at 60.2, growing at its fastest rate ...
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Norris attacks mayor Ken's Tube protest
London transport chief says Livingstone's opposition to part-privatisation will derail improvement programme.
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Blair calls for end to ugly public architecture
The prime minister has attacked much modern architecture as “ugly, ill-suited to the needs of users and costly to maintain”, and called for improvements in public buildings.The comments come in the foreword to a government report, Better Public Buildings, in which Blair sets out his vision for improving towns and ...
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Appointments
ContractorBalfour Beatty Construction has appointed Colin Smith safety, quality and environmental director.HousebuildersEdward Milner has joined Gleeson Homes (North-west) as commercial manager, based in the Blackburn office. Pegasus Retirement Homes has appointed Adrian Stokes, formerly with Virgin Western, commercial manager.Retirement homes specialist McCarthy & Stone has appointed Howard Phillips operations director ...
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Government has neglected industry, admits Raynsford
Mea culpa from minister in wide-ranging speech that touched on ethnic minorities, Egan and cowboys.
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CIOB boss slams industry’s safety attitude
The head of the Chartered Institute of Building has slammed the construction industry’s “complacency” about targets to improve its safety record. CIOB chief executive Chris Blythe hit out in response to remarks made by Roy Harrison, president of the Construction Products Association. Harrison referred to a target to cut the ...
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GLA chairman backs Ken’s housing plan
Greater London Assembly chairman Trevor Phillips has lined up behind Ken Livingstone’s demand that developments should always set aside 50% for social housing.Phillips said: “We do have to raise the amount of affordable housing in London. I am not sure that the kind of absolute decree talked about by Ken ...
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Don’t listen to chickens
So, the Discain case has knocked the wheels off the entire adjudicatory system, has it? Don’t you believe it – the judge was just making a perfectly fair point about being perfectly fair.
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‘Unfair’ CITB levy may be scrapped
The Construction Industry Training Board’s levy may be scrapped if an upcoming judicial review finds that it is discriminatory.It is understood that the review was applied for by civil engineer Buildstone on the grounds that the CITB does not apply the levy to all eligible companies.If Buildstone is successful, the ...
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Raynsford hit by ‘conflict of interest‘ claims
Eco-campaigner George Monbiot says minister cannot combine planning and construction roles.
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Top 250 consultants
Welcome to this year's consultants survey, which finds the top 250 firms in the best of health. Expanding workloads are reflected in swelling staff numbers, with most firms employing more UK chartered staff this year than last. More than 90% say they expect to take on staff in the next ...
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Industry e-commerce to hit £67bn by 2004
Britain’s construction and property companies are lagging behind other sectors in exploiting the potential of e-business, Ernst & Young partner Malcolm Bairstow told a conference organised by Building last week.The former Schal chief, speaking at Understanding How Developers Work, predicted that by 2004, the global value of e-commerce applications in ...
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Jarvis sells off business for £20.5m
Jarvis has sold Laybond, its building products business, to a management buyout team for £20.5m.The deal, which was backed by Close Brothers Private Equity, continues Jarvis’ strategy of disposing of non-core activities. Managing director Richard Ewing, who led the buyout team, said acquisitions or joint ventures were a possibility for ...
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BBC names architect for £120m Portland Place job
Architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has won the competition to design the £120m redevelopment of the BBC’s Portland Place headquarters.The practice beat off a shortlist including Fletcher Priest, Stanton Williams and Alsop & Störmer to win the high-profile job, first revealed in Building last month.The corporation confirmed that the Broadcasting House ...
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