All Building articles in 2004 issue 20 – Page 3

  • News

    Housebuilder Oakdene goes for AIM listing

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Oakdene and brick maker Michelmersh are to list on the alternative investment market, the junior version of the London stock exchange.

  • News

    Client body to charge for advice

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Clients Group plans to charge clients for its procurement advice within the next five years

  • Comment

    A piece of the action

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    In America, lawyers can take a percentage of litigation proceeds. Here we regard that practice as reprehensible. But are English fee arrangements really so different?

  • News

    Anger over £7.6m Ballast pickings

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Administrator Deloitte & Touche has raised only £7.6m from the remains of Ballast, the contractor that failed with debts of almost £160m last October

  • Features

    Amec conjures April victory with £460m MoD contract

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Refurbishment deal puts contractor £120m ahead of Laing O’Rourke while BDP tops architects league

  • News

    Cost of Holyrood hits £450m

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The final cost of the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh is likely to be £450m, more than 11 times the first estimate of £40m

  • Features

    Mark Whitby's 31 buildings

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Nick Hornby is not the only one who can write lists, you know. Inspired by Hornby's compilation 31 Songs, by the Sydney Opera House saga and by his lifelong passion for architecture, Mark Whitby, founder of Whitbybird, decided to let us in on his list of engineering masterpieces. Here's the ...

  • News

    Old Essex firm collapses, axing 200 jobs

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Loweth, a 112-year-old Essex-based contractor, has been placed in administration. It is making 200 employees redundant.

  • News

    Out of the ashes of 9/11

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Support services group WSP has been appointed to work as a consultant on Freedom Tower, the replacement for the World Trade Centre in New York. Cantor Seinuk, WSP's high-rise structural engineering specialist, is working with architects Daniel Libeskind and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to flesh out their designs. Cantor ...

  • News

    CZWG to design £10m casino for Bournemouth

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Architect CZWG is to design a £10m casino in Bournemouth, Dorset, as part of a redevelopment in the town centre.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-05-20T11:38:00Z

    Movers and shakers