All Building articles in 2003 issue 25 – Page 3

  • News

    Liverpool targets housing in four inner-city areas

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool council has announced ambitious plans to overhaul much of the city's housing market in a report unveiled this week.

  • News

    Promenade des Anglais

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Landscape Design Associates has drawn up a masterplan for the redevelopment of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset. The plan covers 45,000 m2 of public space, located on the seafront between the town centre and the shore. Proposals for this esplanade would provide shops, cafes, restaurants and flats. Two pavilion buildings, which would ...

  • Comment

    Lock up your aeroplanes

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    I read with shock and horror how sex offenders have been unleashed to work in restricted access areas on airport projects (13 June, page 11).

  • Comment

    Machiavelli's advice

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    What does the future hold for contractors? History can give us some of the answers – and so can a well known renaissance philosopher

  • News

    Balfour Beatty picked for £90m rail contract

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty has been named preferred bidder for a five-year, £90m line maintenance contract by Network Rail, the railway authority.

  • News

    Scott Wilson wins £6m Sri Lanka contract

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Scott Wilson, the planning and engineering consultant, has signed a £6m contract with the Ministry of Port Development and Shipping in Sri Lanka to develop the port of Colombo over the next 20 years.

  • News

    Skanska sues Costain for £5m over delayed hotel

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Contractor issues High Court writ against joint-venture partner over loss-making hotel refurbishment.

  • News

    Welsh agree £48m fixed-cost deal for assembly

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh assembly this week agreed a £48m fixed-price contract to build its chamber in an attempt to avoid the difficulties that have beset its Scottish counterpart.

  • News

    Homesick blues … and a £4500 phone bill

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    A homesick Caribbean builder on the site of a Four Seasons hotel development in Hampshire has been sacked for refusing to pay a £4500 phone bill.

  • News

    West End theatres to get £35m overhaul

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Contractor WFC Shopfitters is to carry out major refurbishment work to London's Prince of Wales and Strand theatres, as part of a makeover for theatreland unveiled this week.

  • News

    Kent hands Prescott £10bn bill

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Councillors in Kent have asked the government for £10bn to build infrastructure to go with the 120,000 homes planned in John Prescott's communities plan

  • News

    Plans for £1bn business park

    2003-06-27T00:00:00Z

    A £1bn business park is being planned by Miller Developments of Edinburgh and American architect RTKL on the site of a former US airbase in Cheshire.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2003-06-24T16:57:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week