All Building articles in 2002 issue 10 – Page 2

  • News

    Citex cuts seven jobs at London office

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Multidisciplinary consultant Citex has cut seven jobs at its project services office in central London.

  • Features

    Drop-in centre

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    HLM Architects' office building inserted into London's Arundel Great Court has been ingeniously designed to serve as the hub of the complex – without being glaringly obvious

  • News

    Bovis Homes launches northern division

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Bovis Homes has started a northern division with an office in Wilmslow, Cheshire, to cover the north-west and north-east of England.

  • News

    Defence Estates boss promoted to key MoD role

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Prime contracting champion Ian Andrews is appointed ministry's second highest-ranking civil servant.

  • News

    Glenn Howells wins Birmingham masterplan

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Howells Architects has won a competition to masterplan a key regeneration project in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

  • Three under threat
    Features

    Bioterror: the threat to Britain's landmarks

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Officials throughout the UK are working out ways to protect venues such as Durham Cathedral and Wimbledon from germ and chemical attack. Here's what they're planning …

  • News

    Carillion bids to work for rivals on Tube PPPs

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Carillion is aiming to make up for its consortium’s failure to win Tube work by becoming a subcontractor for successful rivals Metronet and Tubelines.

  • Features

    Five tools for getting the balance right

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Curl up with Rob Parson's The Heart of Success (£7, Hodder & Stoughton). This newly published book is packed with practical advice for executives about how to balance family and career demands. "Try applying one principle a week and see the change," raves one reviewer.Try the TUC's Changing Times Published ...

  • News

    Bioterror audit of public venues goes nationwide

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Assessment of vulnerability to biological and chemical attack may call for decontamination shower units.

  • News

    Euro MPs may give blessing to reverse auction bidding

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    UK specialists fear European parliament will "license" aggressive, lowest cost tendering process.

  • News

    Top architects get bid invite

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    lEADING architectural practices Foster and Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox have been invited to bid for the third phase of the £700m Paddington Central mixed-use scheme in London.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsHertfordshire-based Borras Group has made three appointments at its subsidiary, T&B Contractors. Mark Hickson has been appointed contracts director. Marc Jeffries becomes contracts manager. Kevin O'Dell has been promoted to chief surveyor. HousebuildersLaurence Garner has joined Kier Residential as finance director. Karen Parker has been appointed sales manager for Gleeson ...

  • News

    Tolson appointed senior partner at Fenwick

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    law firm Fenwick Elliott has selected Building columnist Simon Tolson as a senior partner.

  • News

    Amec shake-up will pay in a year

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Amec chief executive Sir Peter Mason has told the City that the £5m bill for restructuring the group's senior management will be recouped within a year.

  • News

    BT alliance to offer FM services

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    British Telecom has teamed up with four construction firms to offer a facilities management package for large private clients.

  • News

    East London Line rethink after arches listed

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    London underground believes that the £600m East London Line extension programme will have to be rethought if it is to open on time in 2006.

  • News

    US bankers jittery over PFI after Enron collapse

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Industry fears American funders will make "subliminal" link between PFI projects and failed energy giant.

  • News

    Rok profit surges after restructuring

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Garvis Snook’s restructuring of Exeter-based Rok Group has led to a rise in pre-tax profit from £98,000 in 2000 to £3.8m last year. Turnover rose 36% from £92m to £125m.

  • News

    Abbey Holford Rowe forms global alliance

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    UK architect Abbey Holford Rowe has formed a global alliance with Australian practice Peddle Thorp and Asian architect LPT.

  • News

    Southwark council backs Piano's 66-storey tower

    2002-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Europe's tallest building is given planning permission as £1bn White City mall also gets go-ahead.