All Building articles in 2001 issue 15 – Page 2
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Foster loses control of St Pancras design
Foster and partners' outline design for St Pancras, which is to be the central London terminal of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, will now be carried through to detailed design by the public–private partnership's in-house architectural team.
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Government to crack down on contractors' PFI profits
Treasury is to publish guidelines for refinancing loans, including clawback clauses to curb excess profits.
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Laing execs get taste of things to come
Executives at Laing's construction arm were due to meet O'Rourke chairman Ray O'Rourke this week to hear his plans for the firm.
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Foot and mouth hits civils work
The foot-and-mouth crisis is halting progress on building and engineering projects across the country, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Restaurant, central London
Wells Mackereth has designed this six-storey development by converting two Victorian buildings in Covent Garden for client Mirror Image Restaurants.
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Don't get caught by foot and mouth
Simon Lewis Do the standard forms protect contractors from losses caused by emergency exclusion measures to tackle the latest livestock epidemic?
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Carillion and Wates team up
Carillion Housing and Wates Construction have joined housing association Whitefriars Housing Group for a £240m improvement programme in Coventry.
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Features
Five grants for small businesses
Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme offers 70% guaranteed loans from £5000 to £100,000 for 2-10 years (85% and up to £250,000 if the company has been trading for more than two years) for firms that have a viable business proposition but have failed to get a conventional loan because of ...
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Mansell to boost social housing work
Private contractor Mansell is planning to increase its social housing output from £90m to £150m in the next three years.
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Jarvis bids for part of troubled Eurotelecom
Support services group Jarvis has made a bid for a division of troubled IT firm Eurotelecom – but rejected reports that it has made a play for the whole company.
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Besieged CIB wins client support
A leading client has written to construction minister Nick Raynsford to pledge support for the beleaguered Construction Industry Board.
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Design benchmarks set for June
New benchmarks to measure design quality are to be launched by The Construction Industry Council in June.
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Comment
Get off my back
Tony Bingham Main contractors that try to say provisions in their contract with the client should apply to subcontracts are almost always wrong. And now adjudicators can say so
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Welsh opera house axes construction managers
Schal and Citex/Mace left out in the cold as Welsh assembly opts for fixed price on £92m millennium centre.
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BAA buys into Asite e-commerce venture
Stanhope-led construction services portal Asite has received a boost by securing BAA as a shareholder.
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McLean Group qualifies as chartered architect
Contractor and housebuilder David McLean Group has gained accreditation as a chartered architect to offer clients a one-stop design-and-build service.
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Appointments
ContractorsJoan Hillcock has been made business development director of Crispin & Borst Group. At C&B subsidiary Colin Hatch, Nigel Marsden has been promoted to construction director and Tony Clark to commercial director.Paul Reader has been appointed social housing director of M&E contractor and maintenance specialist Environmental Property Services.Dominic Snape has ...
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The Tony age
Jonathan Meades - Politics tends to have less of an influence over design than brute economics – which is a good thing, considering the shallowness of "New" Labour
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Armitt quits after saving Costain from collapse
Costain chief bows out after taking firm from losses of £600m in the mid-1990s to profit of £6.5m last year.
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Raynsford unveils adjudication tweaks
Construction minister Nick Raynsford has announced a series of amendments to the adjudication process.The move follows in the wake of recommendations made by a Construction Industry Board report to Raynsford, published in February.Changes include preventing companies sidestepping adjudication by writing deterrent clauses into contracts, one of the CIB's key recommendations.This ...
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