All Building articles in 2002 issue 23 – Page 2
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Features
Cost model: Hotel refurbishment
Despite sharp drops in profitability over the past year, hotel operators continue to invest heavily in refurbishment. In this quarter’s cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the key elements and challenges of hotel refurbishment, giving detailed costs for guest rooms and front-of-house areas
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News
Contracts
Jaguar pounces on BirseBirse Construction has won a £5m contract to design and build a new car park and rail terminal for Jaguar at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.Offshore fabrication for AmecAmec has secured a £50m contract to provide main deck fabrication and integration work for an offshore development for BP Exploration.Shepherd ...
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News
Unions raise concerns over migrant worker schemes
The Home Office's proposal to grant short-term working visas to overseas construction workers has been met with scepticism by some unions.
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News
Clients told to pay part of Constructionline cost
Local authorities call for cost of vetting service to be spread to clients and for IT infrastructure to be upgraded.
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Comment
A choice of damage
Liquidated damages may make contractors wince, but really they should be seen as a good and faithful friend – particularly when you consider the alternative
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News
Southwark sacks Elephant & Castle group
Southwark council has sacked a key community group from the troubled £1.5bn Elephant & Castle project in south London.
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News
Britain set to get new embassy in China
The government is working up plans for a British embassy in Beijing.
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News
Skanska's US boss in line to be group chief executive
Stuart Graham tipped as favoured internal candidate to take over from Claes Björk in July 2003.
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News
Laing/Mace to bid for Paddington
Laing O'Rourke is to team up with Mace to pitch for a £150m Richard Rogers-designed office block in Paddington, central London.
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FeaturesBest of British
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is making life better for thousands of people – and no, it's not handing out free chocolate. Foundation director Lord Best told Martin Spring about his organisation's innovative plans to tackle the housing crisis.
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News
BDP gets green light for CrossRail stations
Building Design Partnership has been selected to design train stations on the proposed £200m CrossRail train lines in central London.
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News
Jarvis keeps the faith with rail despite Potters Bar
Contractor denies that it is to scale back track maintenance work in face of possible negligence claims.
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Comment
Back-to-back basics
No apologies for bringing up a fundamental problem with construction contracts: they don't work very well. In fact, the answer may be to radically change them …
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News
AWG to sell Morrison Homes
Utilities Group AWG this week put its housebuilding arm Morrison Homes up for sale two years after it acquired it as part of Morrison Construction.
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News
Three winners score hat-tricks at RIBA awards
Architects Building Design Partnership, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Munkenbeck + Marshall were the principal winners at the RIBA awards this week.
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NewsNightingale associates become partners
Associates at healthcare architect Nightingale have been made equity partners as part of the firm's £9m takeover by Tribal, a support services company listed on the alternative investment market.
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FeaturesWalk of art
Glass artist Alexander Beleschenko has turned a featureless underground passage into a festival of light and colour
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsEngineering firm Dartmouth has appointed Martin Clark, Tony Cole and Mark Newman mobile mechanical and electrical supervisors.HousebuildersPeter Vella (left) has been promoted by Crosby Homes (North West) to sales and marketing director. He was sales and marketing project manager. Redrow Homes (Scotland) has recruited two field sales managers. Christine Higgins ...
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Comment
Engineers anonymous
Given that construction has contributed so much to the environment and the economy, why are we all so embarrassed to admit that we're part of it?
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News
Wates announces one-stop-shop plans
Contractor Wates is planning to expand its services to include cost planning, facilities management and maintenance.
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