All Building articles in 2004 issue 50 – Page 3
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CommentA question for the judge
Can one adjudicator read 52 lever-arch files and nine boxes of documentation in 100 days and still reach a fair decision? Here’s what Judge Toulmin said
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CommentPeace and goodwill
With Christmas eight days away, what better time could there be for the unions and CITB-ConstructionSkills to call a truce in their war for possession of the CSCS card scheme?
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Features
Glad tidings
In this month’s Tracker, Experian’s Business Strategies division reports an optimistic market, with activity growing at a steady pace – and predicts it will pick up speed at the start of 2005
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Gateway to the South
The Millau viaduct in the Aveyron region of southern France was officially opened this week by French president Jacques Chirac.
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NewsJarvis offloads four school PFI projects to Vinci
Floundering contractor lightens its load by selling four schemes to concentrate on others nearer completion
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FeaturesJarvis diaries - The edge of reason
Poor old Jarvis has had a v. bad year, having struggled with debts and been walked out on by its top men. Here, its month-by-month misadventures are chronicled by Mark ‘Darcy’ Leftly …
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Developers face tough planning gain rules
The Housing Corporation is to create a system to control how money is allocated to private developers as part of planning gain agreements
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Comment
Don’t delay
In 2003 Severn Trent Water Limited (STW) commenced its tendering process for the award of contracts for the maintenance, renewal and improvement of its reservoirs, pipelines, pumping stations, treatment plants and sewerage systems. The contract was a five year programme of considerable value, being somewhere in the region of £1.5-£2bn.STW ...
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MP to table CSCS questions
The Labour MP Michael Clapham is set to table a written question in parliament to skills minister Ivan Lewis over the finances of the industry's troubled skills identification card scheme CSCS.
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CommentClucking hell
If construction has been likened to a flock of quarrelsome chickens, it is because industry bodies are concerned with nothing but their own place in the pecking order
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NewsFarrell: Cities should be fast, dense and fun
Cities across the globe have the potential to reinvent themselves in radical new forms, but planners, architects and governments seldom harness these possibilities, architect Sir Terry Farrell has claimed.
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Call for compulsory pensions
The largest pension provider in the industry, B&CE, has called on the industry to put its house in order after the publication of a report into the pensions crisis.
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CABE spared savage heritage spending cuts
Design watchdog has grant increased to almost £5m, as steps are taken to increase its public accountability
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Morgan Sindall buys failed regional contractor
Morgan Sindall has swooped on a private construction company that went into administration on Monday.
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HSE to conduct health blitz
The Health and Safety Executive is to launch an inspection blitz on construction sites in February
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NewsAssembly deals fresh blow to Prescott’s housing plans
East of England body suspends support for 478,000 houses after government reneges on transport funding
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Travis Perkins appoints chief executive
Quoted Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins has appointed Geoff Cooper chief executive.
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CommentJingle all the way
Deck the halls with boughs of holly/Here’s some advice on saving lolly/Hire yourself a new surveyor/Who’ll collect evidence against the payer …
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