All Building articles in 2005 issue 27 – Page 3
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Guy Hands in frame to buy Fairclough Homes
Entrepreneur Guy Hands is understood to be preparing to put in a bid for Fairclough Homes, the housebuilder put up for sale for £250m by its US parent Centex. Hands is chief executive of private equity company Terra Firma.
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FeaturesThe bridge to Kibera
These Kenyan children may have a school to go to, but without clean water and sanitation they will soon have to leave. They are among 700,000 dwellers in Africa’s biggest slum, and they are desperate for the construction industry’s help. Paul Jowitt explains how it can be given
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NewsA view of the bridge
Contractor Alfred McAlpine has begun work to prepare the site of this £4.9m foot and cycle bridge in Newport, south Wales. The Usk bridge, designed by Grimshaw and Atkins, is 67 m tall and 145 m long. The structure has four crane-like masts, standing in pairs, which support the bridge ...
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NewsPedley bows out as chief executive of Redrow
Paul Pedley has stepped down as chief executive of quoted housebuilder Redrow to commit more time to the House Builders Federation.
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Olympic transport body gets go-ahead
The government is set to establish an Olympic Transport Authority to oversee the development of transport links and infrastructure for the games.
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NewsStock leaves the blocks
Planning approval has been granted for this £23m mixed-use development at Payne Road in east London. Created by architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft for the East Thames Group, the project, which has a development value of £35m, creates an entrance to Tower Hamlets from the east and lies close ...
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Costs double as Plymouth hospital PFI ditches sole bid
The Plymouth Hospitals PFI scheme has nearly doubled in cost to £600m after the NHS confirmed last week it had rejected the sole bidder for the project.
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NewsBroadway in Belfast
Architect Broadway Malyan has been appointed to design a mixed-use scheme on the east bank of the River Lagan in Belfast, in collaboration with local architect Robinson McIlwaine.
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FeaturesSimon Vivian begins
Most of Simon Vivian’s six months in charge of Mowlem have been spent struggling with disastrous projects, boardroom bloodletting and a predecessor who didn’t leave. Now he’s finally ready to do it his way. Tom Broughton finds out what he has in mind.
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Mowlem urges Network Rail to reconsider ban
Mowlem chief executive Simon Vivian has been in talks this week with Network Rail over getting the company reinstated on the track renewal programme.
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Kier has some good news and some bad news
Greater profitability in the construction division at Kier will help to offset a slowdown in work at its housing arm, said the firm.
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Shares slide as construction firms report bad news …
City slashes prices as Mowlem, Wimpey, Travis Perkins and Gleeson issue sombre statements
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Comment
Bad news from the World Bank
The second edition of the FIDIC standard form shows signs of having been bent in favour of the World Bank – to the detriment of its international contracting community
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News
Montpellier back in black
Montpellier posted a small profit for the six months to 31 March this year after turning in a £6.9m loss for the year to 30 September 2004.
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NewsPrescott to bring Rogers back into centre of policy debate
John Prescott to host dinner with Richard Rogers and his urban taskforce on eve of Core Cities conference
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Aylesbury estate refurbishment faces axe
Officials are trying to plug a funding gap of “£200-300m” to refurbish the Aylesbury estate in south London.
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Clients to judge specialist contractor awards
Land Securities, Somerfield, Defence Estates, Hammerson, NHS Procure 21 and BAA are among the 13 clients that will be judging Building’s 2005 specialist contractor awards.
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CommentAsking for it
If you lose an adjudication to an opponent in poor financial health, can you decline to pay up? Happily, the courts have just laid down clear rules on this
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Comment
Arrested development
The respondent had been issued a stop notice dated 13 September 2003 requiring him to cease certain works that were being carried out on land that he owned. The stop notice provided that it would take effect on 22 September 2003. On 23 September 2003, a planning enforcement officer visited ...
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