All Building articles in 2001 issue 40 – Page 2
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DL&E buys surveying firm
Quantity surveyor Davis Langdon & Everest has snapped up Nottingham-based practice Carter Walker in order to develop its building surveying business.
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Ex-Beazer boss to head Send's social division
Former Beazer chief executive John Low has joined construction and packaging company Send Group to run its social housing arm.
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High margins raise Boot's profit
Contractor Henry Boot has announced a positive set of half-year results, with profit up 14% writes.
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Boost for east London Olympics
Plans to scrap the building of a £97m national athletics stadium at Picketts Lock in north-east London may provide a welcome boost for a 2012 London Olympics bid.
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Welsh development body gets new boss
The Welsh Assembly has appointed a new chairman to its powerful economic development division.
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Blair offers unions olive branch
Prime minister Tony Blair this week warned contractors that take on public sector contracts not to offer existing staff poorer pay and conditions.
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Comment
The industry's black sheep
Recent cases suggest that consultants and their advisers are becoming too defensive. If this continues, there's a danger they'll lose the goodwill of the industry
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Ken threatens to buy shares in Tube bidders
London mayor Livingstone seeks access to shareholder meetings, in order to slam £13bn PPP deal.
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Tiers before bedtime
Investor-developer Pembroke Real Estate's 764,000 m2 office development in London Docklands' Millennium Quarter is officially launched today (bottom right of picture). The buildings will be tiered in height from 14 to 20 storeys. The Michael Hopkins & Partners-designed scheme will be ready by 2004. Project manager is CMInternational, QS is ...
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Balfour loses unfair dismissal case
M&E Contractor Balfour Kilpatrick has lost an unfair dismissal case lodged by 80 employees at the Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Sandwich, Kent.
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'I want to take Laing back to where it was'
Ray o'rourke wants to re-establish Laing Contstruction as the UK's premier builder and raise turnover to former levels.
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Features
Back to square one
Construction could take a few notes from the motor industry on process improvement
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McAlpine man wins top CIOB award
Sir Robert McAlpine's Peter Carruthers has been named building manager of the year for his work on the West Quay shopping centre in Southampton.Carruthers was awarded his prize at the Chartered Institute of Building awards, held on Tuesday last week. The annual awards are judged by fellows of the CIOB, ...
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Audit office to probe Laing's NPL project
The National Audit Office has launched an investigation into the troubled £300m National Physical Laboratory project, which has lost contractor Laing £60m.
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Rogers' Welsh assembly design under threat
Concerns mount that Lord Rogers' vision for assembly will be spoiled, as doubts grow over viability of roof.
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Features
Appointments
ContractorsJohn Williams has been appointed marketing manager at Caddick Construction.HousebuildersDavid Jackson (right) has been promoted to regional director of Redrow Homes South West. Peter Dartnell has been made technical director of Redrow Homes North West.Newland Homes has appointed Peter Hayes planning officer.ConsultantsProject and facilities consultant EC Harris has made six ...
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Comment
Teaching the Big Apple
The Manchester bomb in 1996 provided an opportunity for revolutionary urban renewal that was ultimately wasted. New York should learn from our mistakes
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Question a silly answer
Tony Bingham An adjudicator makes a boob and the judge says he has answered the wrong question. But he hasn't: he's just answered the right question wrongly
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Features
All Saïd and done
Born in scandal, Oxford University's Saïd Business School has succeeded in merging ancient Roman discipline with contemporary urban humanism – with a ziggurat thrown in for good measure. Building visits architect Dixon Jones' monumental building.
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Sharp drop in confidence as firms worry about recession
RICS report shows surveyors expect workloads to hold up in short term but are gloomy about next year.
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