All Building articles in 2004 issue 30 – Page 3
-
FeaturesTake a break
A recent survey shows that many construction managers think it will help their careers to skip holidays. Andy Pearson reveals why they are very much mistaken
-
Comment
Wonders & blunders
Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
-
Comment
The pensions black hole
Patrick Kennedy and Caoimhe O’Neill If you sign a contract with a firm that has an underfunded final salary pension scheme, it could drag you into the mire too
-
Comment
A binding non-binding decision
Tim Elliott (16 July, page 51) applauds the decision of His Honour Judge Thornton in William Verry Ltd vs North West London Communal Mikrah.
-
Features
Cost study: Belgrave house
Developer Grosvenor Estate wanted a sleek office block that could hold its own opposite London’s Victoria Station and attract firms from the West End and the City. Cost consultant EC Harris, architect Squire and Partners and contractor Sir Robert McAlpine explain how the project team achieved all this at 4% ...
-
News
T&T set to join rush to become LLP
QS and project manager Turner & Townsend is poised to become a limit liability partnership in the next year
-
News
BAA drops Davis Langdon and Cyril Sweett
Airport client puts faith in EC Harris, Turner & Townsend and Doig & Smith after support services review
-
News
Arsenal goes large
Royal Arsenal, WoolwichBerkeley Homes this week submitted its largest ever planning application, for the next phase of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, south-east London. The proposal, submitted jointly with the London Development Agency, confirms the shift by the Berkeley Group to urban regeneration. The plan would provide 3000 homes and ...
-
News
Contractors in secret talks over Oxford animal lab
University determined to press on with the project despite campaign by activists and withdrawal by Montpellier
-
Comment
Counting all the costs
In the issue of 16 July, your leader referred to “consistently reduced construction costs”, and Alistair McAlpine commented that “a cheap price and a silver tongue” were generally accepted as “an alternative to expertise”.
-
Comment
Neanderthal Man alive and well
I was rather surprised to read your comment “Neanderthal Man no longer roams the sites of the land, terrorising small contractors with the assistance of fine legal minds” (16 July, page 3). My job for the past 10 years has been to defend my employer (a subcontractor) against precisely that. ...
-
News
Experts dismiss report into Paris airport disaster
French government blames concrete deterioration – but structural engineers point to a design oversight
-
News
Cannon's aim
Cannon Street StationDeveloper Hines has submitted plans for this Foggo Associates redevelopment of Cannon Street Station in central London. It is to replace a 1960s office block, designed by John Poulson, and will contain eight storeys of glass-covered, column-free office space. The project will be completed by 2010.
-
Comment
This month Legal Aid
Our experts explain the ins and outs of building insurance, outline the many ways an expert QS can resolve wrangles over costs, and look at who pays when a public sector client clashes with a private utility company over delays
-
News
Against the grain
Cranfields flour millsJohn Lyall Architects has gained planning consent for a £35m mixed-use redevelopment of the former Cranfields flour mills on the Ipswich waterfront. A 23-storey tower of flats will replace 15-storey concrete grain silos to become the town’s tallest building. Developer Wharfside Regeneration is in discussion with Mowlem ...
-
News
Skills academy mooted for Thames Gateway
The London Development Agency is to fund a study that could lead to the establishment of a construction skills academy in the capital.Consultant Ecotec will examine whether an academy is needed to deliver the government’s housebuilding programme in the Thames Gateway.The study, which will be released in September, will conclude ...
-
News
NHS Estates to be abolished
The government watchdog on hospital procurement and design, NHS Estates, is to be abolished.The decision, which raises questions over the future of programmes such as the £2.1bn Procure 21 and NHS LIFT, came after the Department of Health published proposals to cut £500m from NHS spending by 2007.It is ...
-
News
Midas aims to quadruple turnover to £600m
Bristol contractor Midas Group has said it aims to quadruple turnover to £600m by 2010.
-
NewsJarvis announces 246m loss after "difficult year"
Troubled contractor will focus on road and rail renewal and steer clear of construction contracts in future.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Page4
- Next Page