All Building articles in 2003 issue 26 – Page 3
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Beyond the ivory towers
Architects are in danger of missing out on the billions being spent in the public sector unless they get bigger and bolder.
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Clarke to meet Atkins staff
Incoming Atkins chief executive Keith Clarke will meet senior employees later this month.
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NewsEmcor plans to expand UK facilities management arm
US parent backs Emcor UK's pitch for 15 FM contracts and promises to fund further acquisitions in the sector.
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Architects in crisis
Construction is trying to meet the demands of 21st-century clients with a design sector largely made up of CAD-equipped hand-loom weavers. Clearly, architects are going to have to reorganise themselves fast or they will face commercial extinction. But how?
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Features
The Architect's role
Architecture professionals need to raise their game – or face permanent relegation in the project team
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Comment
Architects Week point
Architects are 'celebrating' their very own Week, during which they will try to convince us they are about to change the world. It's a worrying trend …
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Shepherd makes key appointment
Shepherd Group has promoted Patrick Shepherd to chairman of its construction and engineering division.
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Comment
It doesn't get any easier
I have spent more than four decades in construction, with more than three of those in management, but your article "The dark side of construction" (27 June, page 40) still shook me.
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UK engineering needs another Brunel, says ICE
The Institution of Civil Engineers has called on the government to appoint a chief engineering adviser to oversee the national infrastructure.
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Mowlem director takes top job with Alfred McAlpine
A senior figure at Mowlem, Steve Smith, is to join Alfred McAlpine to head its civil engineering division.
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Three vie for £70m MoD HQ
Three consortiums are competing for a £70m contract to decommission a huge network of tunnels and caverns belonging to the Ministry of Defence in Wiltshire and create a headquarters for its communications division
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Bovis to sign £400m contract for BBC HQ
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease is due to sign a £400m-plus contract to redevelop the BBC Broadcasting House headquarters in Portland Place, London
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Interior wins two-horse race for £40m Ascot stand
Interior has beaten off a challenge from Mace to win a £40m construction management job to fit out a stand at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.
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Speedy Hire amasses £35m warchest
Listed plant hire firm Speedy Hire has set up a £35m fund for acquisitions.
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HSE orders immediate halt at 332 sites
The Health and Safety Executive has reported that more than a quarter of construction sites failed to meet government safety standards on falls from height.
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Crest Nicholson makes £32m
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has announced a pre-tax profit of £32m for the six months to 30 April, a rise of 32% on the same period last year.
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Laing sells stake in US housing firm for £25.7m
Support services group Laing has moved further from the housing sector with the sale of its minority interest in US firm WL Homes for £25.7m.
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Features
The view to 2005
According to Experian® Business Strategies' latest regional construction forecasts, 2003 should be another buoyant year, even though growth rates will be much slower than in 2002. Rates will fall further in 2004 and 2005 as the government reins in spending and the housing market dawdles
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Eleven industry firms rank in Top Track 100
Eleven construction firms have made it into the Top Track 100, compiled by The Sunday Times, which ranks Britain's biggest 100 private companies by total sales.
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NewsPidgley: I'm staying for 10 years
Berkeley Group chief executive Tony Pidgley has said he wants to stay at the helm of the company he founded for at least another decade
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