All Building articles in 2001 issue 15 – Page 2

  • News

    Foster loses control of St Pancras design

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Government to crack down on contractors' PFI profits

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Treasury is to publish guidelines for refinancing loans, including clawback clauses to curb excess profits.

  • News

    Laing execs get taste of things to come

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Foot and mouth hits civils work

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    The foot-and-mouth crisis is halting progress on building and engineering projects across the country, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers.

  • News

    Restaurant, central London

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Wells Mackereth has designed this six-storey development by converting two Victorian buildings in Covent Garden for client Mirror Image Restaurants.

  • Comment

    Don't get caught by foot and mouth

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Simon Lewis Do the standard forms protect contractors from losses caused by emergency exclusion measures to tackle the latest livestock epidemic?

  • News

    Carillion and Wates team up

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Carillion Housing and Wates Construction have joined housing association Whitefriars Housing Group for a £240m improvement programme in Coventry.

  • Features

    Five grants for small businesses

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Mansell to boost social housing work

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Private contractor Mansell is planning to increase its social housing output from £90m to £150m in the next three years.

  • News

    Jarvis bids for part of troubled Eurotelecom

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Besieged CIB wins client support

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    A leading client has written to construction minister Nick Raynsford to pledge support for the beleaguered Construction Industry Board.

  • News

    Design benchmarks set for June

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    New benchmarks to measure design quality are to be launched by The Construction Industry Council in June.

  • Comment

    Get off my back

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Welsh opera house axes construction managers

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Schal and Citex/Mace left out in the cold as Welsh assembly opts for fixed price on £92m millennium centre.

  • News

    BAA buys into Asite e-commerce venture

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Stanhope-led construction services portal Asite has received a boost by securing BAA as a shareholder.

  • News

    McLean Group qualifies as chartered architect

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Contractor and housebuilder David McLean Group has gained accreditation as a chartered architect to offer clients a one-stop design-and-build service.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    The Tony age

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Armitt quits after saving Costain from collapse

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Costain chief bows out after taking firm from losses of £600m in the mid-1990s to profit of £6.5m last year.

  • News

    Raynsford unveils adjudication tweaks

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    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 ...