All Building articles in 2002 issue 05 – Page 2
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News
DTI to recommend privatising quality mark
DTI to tell Wilson that anti-cowboy scheme should be given to not-for-profit company run by industry.
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Features
Don't go KPI nuts
These days, there's a benchmarking tool for everything – except the effectiveness of benchmarking. And as key performance indicators cost more than peanuts to implement, how can companies work out which ones are truly key to their performance?
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Comment
From ghetto to des res
The best way to regenerate an area is to make it attractive to wealthy households. That requires money for better services and a culture change among housebuilders
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G&T cuts tender price rise predictions
Quantity surveyor Gardiner & Theobald has scaled back tender price increase predictions for this year and next.
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Contracts
Balfour to oversee ThameslinkBalfour Beatty has been appointed preferred bidder for a £200m contract to oversee the Thameslink 2000 rail infrastructure scheme. D&D wins mental health unitHampshire contractor Dean & Dyball has won a £13.2m contract to build a mental health suite at Old Manor hospital in Salisbury, WiltshireCaddick gets ...
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Connaught on prowl for services firm
Exeter-based contractor and facilities management group Connaught is looking for acquisitions to expand its services business.
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Mace reorganises to get closer to market
Consultant and construction manager Mace is restructuring its business to focus on market sectors rather than services.
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Features
The killer clients
Eganism is being threatened by a very different way of doing business, as blue-chip employers switch to 'reverse auction' tendering on the internet – a ruthless game in which the client picks off bidders until there is just one left.
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Prince in clash over City site
Prince charles and Michael Oliver, the lord mayor of London, crossed swords last week over the redevelopment of a site in the City.
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Features
Bright young thing
Ben Tanner, winner of the Sir Ian Dixon Scholarship, which gives the industry's bright lights a chance to research a topic of their choice, talks to Victoria Madine
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Site supervisors to get better training
Construction Union UCATT has teamed up with the DTI and a management consultant to try to deliver better training for construction site supervisors.
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Comment
The last battle
A final account statement may seem like a once-and-for-all agreement – but it is not. Get into a dispute and you may find the contract gives it no weight at all
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Comment
Banquo's ghost
If you think that as long as a letter is headed with the words 'without prejudice' it's off the record, you could find it haunts you in court
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NewsBaltic state
Baltic state: Work to transform Gateshead’s 42 m high Baltic Flour Mills into a centre for contemporary art is nearing completion, as this photograph by Etienne Clement shows. Clement’s photographic record of the transformation is the subject of an exhibition at the RIBA in London from 23 February to 14 ...
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Audit office praises army PFI project
The National Audit Office has praised a £200m Ministry of Defence PFI project, saying it offered value for money, despite the project's lengthy bidding process.
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NewsDramatic twist as RSC hires Royal Opera House architects
BDP and Dixon Jones will consider whether Royal Shakespeare Theatre should be saved from demolition.
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Features
Appointments
ContractorsMidlands firm William Sapcote has appointed Phil Livesey senior project surveyor in Birmingham. He was previously a PQS with Mowlem.Gary Charnock (left) has joined Willmott Dixon as general foreman for the West Midlands. Wiltshier FM, the facilities management division of contractor Ballast, has appointed Robert Newton general manager. HousebuildersBellway Homes ...
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Mouchel buy signals rail ambition
Privately owned consultant engineer Mouchel has boosted its rail capabilities by acquiring sector specialist Metro Consulting.
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NewsTop Prowting executives quit after profit warning
Alarm in City as third housebuilder in five months cuts estimate of pre-tax profit and changes management.
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