All Building articles in 2003 issue 23 – Page 3

  • Features

    After the floodgates open

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The biggest dam in the world, the Three Gorges in China, has started to turn the Yangtze into a 480 km long reservoir. As the water rises, Building considers the tasks still facing the Chinese: completing the dam and building three cities for 1.2 million displaced people

  • News

    Contractors share £300m job centres framework deal

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Contractors Shepherd, Mansell and Mowlem are among 14 companies that have been awarded a £300m framework deal to refurbish up to 750 job centres

  • News

    Emcor sues McAlpine for £1m

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    M&E contractor Emcor Drake & Scull has issued a High Court writ against Sir Robert McAlpine for £1m in damages after it was thrown off the £140m Dudley hospital PFI project in the West Midlands last December

  • News

    UK building industry to grow at average of 5.1%

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The UK construction market will grow at an average rate of 5.1% a year until 2012, according to research firm Global Insight