All Building articles in 2004 issue 43 – Page 3
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News
Emergency room for St Mary’s
The team behind plans for the £800m St Mary’s PFI hospital in Paddington, west London, is considering using yet another piece of land to house the scheme,
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NewsSafety drive to use shock tactics
Industry leaders are set to launch a hard-hitting poster campaign in a drive to cut the number of accidents on site,
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The line is drawn
… but who will cross it? As outraged housebuilders clash with the ODPM over giving planners the power to dictate mix, we commentates on the tug of war
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NewsSharewatch: Downbeat trading
The trickle of downbeat trading statements from quoted housebuilders continued to flow last week.
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Features
Winding down
In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies division reports that growth in the industry is expected to continue but the growth rate is set to decline over the three months to November
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Comment
The wrong kind of demand
Nick Lane is right to sound a warning about using winding-up petitions to make debtors cough up (3 September, page 52).
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NewsThe real deal
In last week’s issue of Building we used the wrong image for the top prize winner in the Wood Awards (it was Simon Conder’s Dungeness house).
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NewsDavid Curry
The angry reaction from the House Builders Federation to PPG3 is predictable, but will John Prescott listen to its argument and reconsider some of his most criticised ideas?
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Heron increases Crest stake
Gerald Ronson’s Heron International further increased its stake in housebuilder Crest Nicholson last week.
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Hewitt plans to crack industry’s ‘men only’ culture
Trade secretary launches campaign to persuade more women to break into ‘macho’ world of construction
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NewsCool for coppers
A £15m HQ for Gloucestershire Constabulary in Gloucester was topped out last week.
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Comment
Who’s in control?
The defendant contractor secured a contract to decorate the exterior of a building. The claimant was a painter and decorator in partnership with his father and they were instructed by the defendant to carry out the work. The work required the use of scaffolding, but no ladder was provided by ...
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Union demands talks over Laing O’Rourke contracts
GMB hits out at exclusion from talks between employer and UCATT over plan to directly employ 6000 workers
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CommentNothing comes of nothing
Contractors are forever complaining about disruption on the job, but without hard evidence an adjudicator will award them precisely zero compensation
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FeaturesPresident Clinton
He may not yet be the international political force that Bill once was, but Colin Clinton knows how to use power to effect change – and not just at the ICE. We talk to him about his modernising agenda, globalisation and lawn mowing.
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FeaturesTime for change
In the last of this five part series, CITB-ConstructionSkills explains how major breakthroughs in the drive for vocational and on-site training will benefit employers, government and training providers
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News
Cement firm Cemex steps closer to RMC takeover
Cemex, the world’s third-largest cement producer, has moved a step closer to its proposed £2.3bn takeover of RMC.
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Galliford Try directors resign to set up niche business
Affordable housing bosses John Owen and David Faint expected to launch construction consultancy
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Poles consider using PPP to build national stadium
Polish officials are considering whether to build a national football stadium in Warsaw under a PPP scheme.
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Multiplex declares war on Cleveland Bridge
The phoney war between Multiplex and Cleveland bridge, which started when the steel contractor was thrown off the Wembley national stadium project in July, has turned into the real thing,
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