All Building articles in 2000 issue 44 – Page 2
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Check out the policy
How can it be that a client ends up out of pocket when a subcontractor causes a fire on site? Someone wasn't paying close enough attention to the insurance clauses.
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Products of change
As the potential for e-commerce continues to grow, suppliers are facing a world of change in the way they do business – and, as a recent DETR report warns, not exploiting what the web has to offer could be fatal.
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Cost model: Convention centres
A convention centre is a major asset to the economy of its host city, drawing well-stuffed wallets within the reach of local businesses. Davis Langdon & Everest looks at how to build a successful centre.
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Wal-Mart boss to take helm at Wilcon
Allan Leighton, the outgoing chief executive of Wal-Mart Europe, is to become non-executive chairman at housebuilder Wilson Connolly from 1 January 2001.Leighton became deputy chairman of the company in March, a post that was intended to be a preparatory step to taking over the top spot. He will succeed chairman ...
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Shares surge over transport bonanza
Shares in Jarvis and Balfour Beatty rise as investors anticipate tidal wave of infrastructure contracts.
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Bilbao spreads its wings
Santiago Calatrava's spectacular airport is the resurgent Spanish city's latest architectural icon. We revisit Gehry's Guggenheim, the building that started it all.
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Housebuilders balk at flood defence bill
Developers point to Environment Agency as they reject government's call to take on burden and cost of protecting country's sites from flooding
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Birse knocked back by second write-off
Share price hits 18-month low on news of second troublesome contact, as one analyst suggests exit from stock market.
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The chickens fight back
Tony Bingham believes that Discain won't make a huge difference to the adjudication system. Not so, says Ann Minogue: the case will spawn a host of further challenges to adjudicators' decisions.
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CITB bids to attract youth
The CITB is to spend £3.8m attracting young people into the construction industry to stave off the recruitment crisis.The extra cash, which comes from an increase in the annual levy from construction firms announced last month, will be spent on recruiting school leavers and older trainees, funding on-the-job experience and ...
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DETR attempts to revive flagging quality mark
Confusion reigns over the creation of a new working party to revamp cowboy builder initiative
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Wales assembly grasps the nettle on procurement
Key proposals include partnering arrangements on housing schemes and incentives for design innovation.
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Subcontractors slam late payment and 'arrogant' QSs
Coventry University report into subcontractors' attitudes finds the Construction Act is being ignored
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Osborne annual profit dips
Contractor Osborne has reported a slight dip in annual pre-tax profit from £2.71m to £2.76m after it recorded losses on three contracts.Turnover rose £3.7m to £135.1m for the year to 31 March with increases in all divisions except housebuilding, where turnover fell £2m to £9.3m.Two of the loss-making contracts were ...
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Amec raises US presence
AMEC has maintained its challenge to US giants Bechtel and Fluor Daniel in the North American engineering consulting market by buying environmental consultant Ogden Environmental and Energy Services for £12m.Ogden, formerly part of power and infrastructure company Ogden Corporation, has 650 professional staff and an annual revenue of £55m.The acquisition ...
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Ian Simpson's towering ambition for Birmingham
Eco-friendly residential skyscraper will be the second-tallest residential block in the country.
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Stormy Monday halts work across UK
Work came to a halt on the Canary Wharf towers this week as the worst storms for a decade battered the country.A spokesperson for the UK's largest developer said: "Work stopped over the weekend and on Monday because of our concerns over high winds, but we are back at work ...
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£10bn to be spent on new roads by 2010
Almost half of the Highways Agency's budget for the next 10 years will be spent on new-build projects, it was revealed this week.The agency will have £22bn to spend during this period, compared with its current annual budget of £1.4bn. The extra £6bn was announced by deputy prime minister ...
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