All Building articles in 2001 issue 40 – Page 2

  • News

    DL&E buys surveying firm

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyor Davis Langdon & Everest has snapped up Nottingham-based practice Carter Walker in order to develop its building surveying business.

  • News

    Ex-Beazer boss to head Send's social division

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Former Beazer chief executive John Low has joined construction and packaging company Send Group to run its social housing arm.

  • News

    High margins raise Boot's profit

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Henry Boot has announced a positive set of half-year results, with profit up 14% writes.

  • News

    Boost for east London Olympics

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Welsh development body gets new boss

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly has appointed a new chairman to its powerful economic development division.

  • News

    Blair offers unions olive branch

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Prime minister Tony Blair this week warned contractors that take on public sector contracts not to offer existing staff poorer pay and conditions.

  • Comment

    The industry's black sheep

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Ken threatens to buy shares in Tube bidders

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Livingstone seeks access to shareholder meetings, in order to slam £13bn PPP deal.

  • News

    Tiers before bedtime

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Balfour loses unfair dismissal case

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    M&E Contractor Balfour Kilpatrick has lost an unfair dismissal case lodged by 80 employees at the Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Sandwich, Kent.

  • News

    'I want to take Laing back to where it was'

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Ray o'rourke wants to re-establish Laing Contstruction as the UK's premier builder and raise turnover to former levels.

  • Features

    Back to square one

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Construction could take a few notes from the motor industry on process improvement

  • News

    McAlpine man wins top CIOB award

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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, ...

  • News

    Audit office to probe Laing's NPL project

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office has launched an investigation into the troubled £300m National Physical Laboratory project, which has lost contractor Laing £60m.

  • News

    Rogers' Welsh assembly design under threat

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Concerns mount that Lord Rogers' vision for assembly will be spoiled, as doubts grow over viability of roof.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    Teaching the Big Apple

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The Manchester bomb in 1996 provided an opportunity for revolutionary urban renewal that was ultimately wasted. New York should learn from our mistakes

  • Comment

    Question a silly answer

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    All Saïd and done

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Sharp drop in confidence as firms worry about recession

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    RICS report shows surveyors expect workloads to hold up in short term but are gloomy about next year.