All Building articles in 2002 issue 02 – Page 2
-
News
Ready, steady, go for Millennium Bridge
WORK to remove the wobble on the £18.2m Millennium Bridge has been completed by a project team led by engineer Arup.
-
FeaturesA breakdown of trust
Last year, the tenants of a bleak, run-down south London estate voted overwhelmingly against a proposal to spend £243m on building them new homes – and cast a cloud over the government's urban regeneration plans. Phil Clark finds out what went wrong
-
News
Prowting bosses given five years to raise share price
Housebuilder's family owner may sell part of holding to stimulate moribund share performance.
-
News
Tay boss joins Wilcon as firm is swallowed
Former Tay Homes chief executive Bill Bannister has joined rival housebuilder Wilson Connolly as a regional chairman.
-
News
Cut cost of quality mark, say trade bodies
Industry trade federations are threatening to withdraw support from the quality mark scheme unless the cost of joining is reduced.
-
FeaturesThe benchmark
In the latest of our occasional series on best practice, Gazeley Properties reveals to Andy Pearson how it employed a tight supply chain, innovative partnering methods and a revolutionary steel frame to construct a brand new warehouse in 12 weeks – plus two industry experts give their verdict
-
NewsUCATT urges Treasury to ban bogus rail workers
Union will meet chief adviser to argue that self-employed workers should be excluded from transport jobs.
-
News
BAA set to reappoint five QSs
Five quantity surveyors are in line to be reappointed as framework consultants for airports client BAA.
-
News
Rogers attacks 'dishonest' facades planning guidance
Architect launches campaign to revise planning rules by slamming the retention of old facades on new buildings.
-
News
Gleeson dragged down by housing arm
Contractor Gleeson has blamed the performance of its housing business for the group’s profit warning last week.
-
News
BDP wins planning approval
Architect Building Design Partnership has won planning approval for a £13m business school at Napier University's Craiglockhart campus in Edinburgh. The campus site includes the former hydropathic hospital building, which housed war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon during the First World War. The design includes a titanium-clad 200-seat lecture ...
-
Features
Appointments
HousebuildersMorris Homes has promoted Clare Crowther to group marketing director and Chris Minshall to sales director for the north of England. In the firm's West Midlands division, Daren Asson has joined as regional buyer and Stuart Rawcliffe has been appointed construction director.Jane Currie (left) has been promoted to sales manager ...
-
News
NHS bars PFI advisers from bidding for hospitals
NHS Estates set to impose curbs because of concern that consultants could possess unfair knowledge of costs.
-
News
MDA shakes up board in advance of Headlam vote
Former J Sainsbury construction director Charles Johnston has taken over as chairman at quantity surveyor MDA, in a board shake-up before today's vote on the future of chief executive Elaine Headlam.
-
News
Rogers up for £55m PFI courts job
leading architect Richard Rogers is one of three practices to be shortlisted to design a £55m PFI court complex in Manchester. The project is the UK’s biggest judicial building job since the construction of the Royal Courts of Justice in 1870.
-
Features
HBG hangs on to top with contracts worth £33m
Kier is hard on the heels of the Dutch-owned contractor, but the December lull is apparent across the board.
-
NewsGovernment calls in Arup to assess 2012 Olympic bid
Consultant appointed by government-led consortium to examine cost and suitability of London bid for games.
-
News
Balfour Beatty wins £150m work in USA
Contractor Balfour Beatty has won £150m of infrastructure development work in the USA.
-
News
Artisan took out £1.4m before selling Bickerton
Construction group confirms that it took a dividend out of Bickerton seven months before collapse.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page