All Building articles in 2003 issue 01 – Page 3

  • Features

    Help, we need some bodies

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Labour shortages, culture change and European politics

  • News

    Triple bill

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Triple bill: Chetwood Associates has received the go-ahead for three regeneration projects, including this £90m development for J Sainsbury in Maidenhead, Berkshire. It includes 8400 m2 of office space, more than 100 residential units, IT training accommodation and public transport facilities, built around a piazza. The other two projects involve ...

  • Features

    Prescott's big idea

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to Britain's new planning system

  • News

    Battle McCarthy expands into the USA

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Consulting engineer Battle McCarthy will open its first overseas office in New York this spring as part of a US expansion.

  • News

    Fate of collapsed Brighton pier hangs in the balance

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Owner warns that if latest reconstruction plans are not approved soon, West Pier may have to be demolished.

  • Features

    Bad news for the City

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    The year will have a poor results season and a difficult housing market

  • News

    Crane awarded CBE in honours list

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Rethinking Construction chief Alan Crane headed the list of construction professionals rewarded in the New Year's Honours List

  • News

    Industry misses chance to avoid congestion charge

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    City chiefs shocked by lack of lobbying to win concessions, and Peter Rogers warns of anger and confusion.

  • News

    Bickerton: Aviss and Artisan fight it out in court

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    High Court writs fly as Serious Fraud Office continues its investigation into collapse of regional contractor.

  • Features

    The Vikings have arrived

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    This year, France’s domination of the European contractors league table was brought to an end by a Swedish assault. And, as Matthew Richards reports, Skanska isn’t the only firm with global ambitions.

  • Features

    Brothers in arms

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    The new union militancy

  • Comment

    Our apartheid

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Britain today is characterised by a selfish elite living in exclusive communities indifferent to the miserable lives endured by everyone else

  • Comment

    More cherry, anyone?

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    If you take a dispute to adjudication and lose, can you go for a second bite? The answer is that you can't adjudicate a dispute twice – except when you can …

  • Features

    Get ready to answer your critics

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    We're in for a year of ecological activism – from an unlikely source

  • Comment

    Another fine mesh

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Disputes in PFI cases often involve three parties. So why shouldn't they all be dealt with together before one tribunal? It might save all sorts of entanglements

  • Features

    Local lowdown: East Anglia

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    In the latest of the series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose examines East Anglia, where activity and salaries are on the up and up

  • News

    Risky clauses may deter buyers for Amey

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    As speculation intensifies about a possible takeover of Amey, analysts are warning potential buyers that a sale may allow clients to cancel their contracts with the support services group.

  • News

    Amec snaps up Mowlem's construction boss

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Steve Bowcott makes 'amicable' departure to take over troubled contractor's infrastructure division.

  • News

    The year ahead

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    What's going to happen in 2003If you’re curious about the changes that the next 12 months have in store for you, but don’t want to wait a whole year to find out what they are, then look no further.

  • News

    Three in race for Roche's £60m Welwyn HQ

    2003-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Three construction managers are understood to be competing for the contract to build a £60m headquarters for pharmaceutical firm Roche in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.