All Building articles in 2003 issue 49 – Page 2

  • News

    Berkeley eyes up potential purchases in strategy U-turn

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Tony Pidgley drops organic growth strategy and announces that he is looking to join consolidation race

  • Features

    To the bastion

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale

  • News

    Housebuilders criticised by Barker report

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A report by economist Kate Barker has blamed housebuilders and planners for Britain's undersupply of housing.

  • Features

    Tales of Temple Bar

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar marked the gateway to the City of London for 200 years. Then it retired to the country. And now, thanks to a £4m stone-by-stone removal job, the arch should see a few more centuries of capital life at Paternoster Square.

  • Comment

    Viva Bambi!

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers

  • News

    Ballast boardroom: The desperate days

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Leaked documents reveal how the Ballast board told senior personnel to 'show some sense of excitement and hope about the refreshed Ballast plc' while the company was falling apart around their ears

  • Comment

    Back from the dead

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.

  • News

    Police arrest John Aviss over collapse of Bickerton

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Former owner of failed regional contractor is arrested, along with six others, by Serious Fraud Office

  • News

    CSCS cards to be required for all Whitehall work

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Government steps up pressure to train as Constructing Excellence predicts formation of construction university

  • Comment

    You have to agree to disagree

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    This is a decision of the Court of Appeal. Wilson maintained both during the adjudication and before Judge MacKay (at a hearing to enforce that decision at first instance) that the contract that was the subject of the adjudication had been made not with him personally but with a company, ...

  • News

    McAslan enters Africa with Morocco museum

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Architect John McAslan + Partners has expanded into North Africa with the design of a multicultural centre and an archaeological museum in Morocco.

  • News

    The Ballast affair

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Confidential documents reveal true extent of contractor's financial plight as it was reassuring subcontractors

  • News

    Tendring goes into administration

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Regional contractor Tendring Construction has been placed into administration.

  • News

    Rolfe Judd plans £250m Cambridge revamp

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Architect Rolfe Judd is working on a giant masterplan to redevelop 12 ha around Cambridge railway station at a cost of more than £250m.

  • News

    Multiplex and Ferrovial in £250m PFI bid

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Two foreign contractors have made the shortlist for a £250m PFI hospital project in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

  • News

    Electricians at Terminal 5 agree £50,000 pay deal

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Electrical workers on Heathrow scheme finally strike a deal comparable to skilled building workers' agreement

  • News

    £30,000 fine for site death

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A property developer has had to pay out a total of £40,000 after a fireball on site left a worker with horrific burns from which he later died.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2003-12-10T11:15:00Z

    Housebuilders Weybridge-based Persimmon Homes South East has appointed Mike Ackling health and safety adviser for the South-east.Eamonn McInerney has joined Charles Church South Midlands as regional sales director.Wates Developments has promoted Jonny Wates to group strategic marketing director. Neil Simpson joins as sales and marketing director and Peter Gurr, ...