All Building articles in 2005 issue 04 – Page 4

  • Features

    The race to build the £60k houses

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.

  • News

    Skanska takes £52m hit on UK liquid gas project

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Shares in Swedish contractor drop 5% after contract for National Grid Transco falls behind schedule

  • News

    M&E workers at T5 poised for pay strike

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    M&E workers on Heathrow Terminal 5 could be on strike within two weeks in a row over travelling pay for local workers, it emerged this week

  • Features

    The sustainable communities summit 2005

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.

  • News

    The sustainable communities summit 2005

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    In the run-up to Prescott's summit next week: a group of regeneration experts ignite the debate, the 60k house challenge is put to the test and what the PFI did for a grim Manchester estate

  • News

    Indonesia tenders £12bn infrastructure projects

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    The Indonesian government is planning to put $22bn (£11.8bn) of infrastructure projects out to tender. The government is interested in using a PPP approach, which would favour British firms familiar with it.

  • News

    Crest Nicholson posts 10% rise in pre-tax profit

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Crest Nicholson kicked off the reporting season this week with a strong set of annual results, calming fears of a housing crash.

  • News

    Construction growth to fall to 2.1% this year

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Research group Experian forecasts falls across the board, with the private housing sector hardest hit

  • News

    Jarvis issued with £175,000 non-payment writ

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Troubled contractor Jarvis is being sued by Aedas Architects for non-payment of a series of fees from projects undertaken in 2003.

  • News

    Bouygues hands over Home Office PFI

    2005-01-26T00:00:00Z

    French contractor completes £244m replacement of Marsham Street 'Three Ugly Sisters'

  • Comment

    On whose authority?

    2005-01-25T00:00:00Z

    The claimant company Tube Tech International Ltd (Tube Tech) specialised in the cleaning of industrial pipe work and allegedly entered into four contracts for the cleaning of a natural gas plant in Nigeria with the first four defendants (TSKJ) who, it was claimed, was acting as a consortium.The claim was ...