All Building articles in 2003 issue 48 – Page 2
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Three Skanska UK directors get the chop in reshuffle
Skanska UK has slimmed down its management board from 10 to seven to create a tighter-knit team.
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NewsWorkers protest over use of cheap foreign labour
Hundreds march through Westminster to demonstrate against impact of imported workers on wages and safety
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NewsCelebrity stylist cuts up rough
Hairdresser Daniel Galvin is suing builder Avondale Developments for £100,000 over work on his house in north London
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Occupational health plan faces cash crisis
The Health and Safety Executive has admitted that plans for a national occupational health scheme for the construction industry could be shelved because of lack of money.
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Most new buildings breach Part L rules
An industry expert has claimed that up to two-thirds of new commercial buildings are not tested for airtightness as required by the government's building regulations on energy conservation.
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
Dawn Gibbins is drawn to the natural light of Belfast City Hall, but the gloom of industrial sheds has her voting with her feet
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Comment
A reasonable bill
This was one of the final decisions of Judge Bowsher QC before his retirement from the bench. Having found in favour of the defendants, he then had to consider the question of costs. Both defendants sought their costs on an indemnity basis.
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Contractors will cash in their PFI bets
Last week's decision by Carillion and Atkins to cash in their equity in PFI projects looks like signalling a trend among contractors. We look at what is driving the process
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University towns set to benefit from Egan
The expansion of university towns, such as Cambridge and Edinburgh is one of the ideas under consideration in a government review chaired by Sir John Egan.
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Comment
Who've you been seeing?
Natural justice and adjudication can be a jealous and suspicious couple. But a recent case has led to guidelines that could smooth out some of the tensions
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FeaturesGoing Ballastic
Thousands of furious workers and suppliers are banging on the door of Ballast, demanding their money and claiming they were misled about the firm's financial position. Will a creditors' meeting later this month do anything to pacify them?
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NewsNedam faces legal threat from Ballast collapse victims
Subcontractors are turning wrath on Dutch parent firm, which they say promised to make good Ballast debts
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Philip Cleaver on …Selling Mansell to Balfour Beatty
My take on selling Mansell is that we faced the same problems that most unlisted firms eventually encounter.
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Wrekin and AYH hire bosses
Private contractor Wrekin and project management consultant AYH have appointed senior executives.
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NewsSuspended aviation
An extension to the RAF Museum in Hendon, north London, will be opened by the Queen on 17 December, the centenary of man's first powered flight. It will house the key aircraft of the past 100 years. The £7.2m building, which has an area of 3000 m2 was ...
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FeaturesBeyond the automobile
Ford has helped turn its mammoth Dagenham car plant into a pioneering technical education centre – and its first customers will be the former factory's workers. Oh, and it looks fantastic, too. Who said history was bunk?
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Hyder leaves Asia to focus on Australia
Listed engineering group Hyder Consulting is redirecting its Asian operation from the continental mainland to Australia.
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NewsTroubled Hackney leisure centre closes after leak in roof
The troubled £28m Clissold Leisure Centre in Hackney, north-east London, was closed last week because of a leaking roof.
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Chris Evans, BBC project director, dies aged 43
The former project director of the £400m BBC Broadcasting House building, Chris Evans, died of cancer this week, aged 43.
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News264 variations were made to Holyrood in November
Fraser inquiry scrutinises Bovis' appointment and behaviour of Enric Miralles as yet more bad news emerges
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