All Building articles in 2006 issue 03 – Page 2

  • Barratt development
    News

    Barratt private housing completions fall by 1%

    2006-01-23T09:43:00Z

    "Testing" private market partly offset by 14% rise in social housing completions.

  • Charlie Banks index
    News

    Wolseley's recent shopping spree tops £436m

    2006-01-23T09:28:00Z

    Wolsley acquisitions since start of year now at £436m while trading profit jumps 20%.

  • Barratt Thames lead
    News

    Barratt finance director steps down

    2006-01-23T09:04:00Z

    Colin Dearlove will be replaced by former director of Abbey National Mark Pain.

  • News

    Stanhope and Chelsfield Partners bid for Euston project

    2006-01-20T16:56:00Z

    Network Rail considers the two bids for overhaul of 15-acre site around Euston station.

  • Christopher Chater-Poole
    News

    Emcor appoint new boss at facilities business

    2006-01-20T16:18:00Z

    Emcor Group appoints Christopher Chater-Poole as managing director of Emcor Facilities Services.

  • News

    G&T managing partner enjoys a very lucrative year

    2006-01-20T07:00:00Z

    Peter Sanders' £751,000 salary, reported in the group accounts, reveals him as one of the industry's top earners

  • Barts cad image
    News

    Treasury rethinks PFI as Barts hangs in the balance

    2006-01-20T07:00:00Z

    Radical changes in procurement policy mooted as contractors anxiously await news of St Bartholomew's.

  • Alun Michael
    News

    Minister backs specialists in row over fair payments

    2006-01-20T07:00:00Z

    Subcontractors elated over the DTI's proposed changes to the Construction Act; contractors call plans a ‘burden'

  • News

    Buro Happold to double size of US workforce to 120

    2006-01-20T07:00:00Z

    Engineer to open larger officer in New York as it moves to reduce dependence on UK market

  • The primal forms of jagged, striated concrete walls and smooth-flowing metal roofs were inspired by Tenerife’s volcanic mountains and surrounding Atlantic ocean
    Features

    Into the volcano

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    In the Spanish resort of Tenerife, local architect Fernando Menis has created an arts centre that brilliantly evokes the island's mountains, cliffs, beaches and ocean

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Scramble!

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    When a contractor went into receivership, Wimpey withheld a £400,000 payment, thereby starting a lengthy legal struggle over who owned the money …

  • News

    Royal oak

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    A 200 m2 visitor centre for Windsor Great Park has been designed by Glen Howells Architects and is under construction by Verry.

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    If there must be sport …

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    If we really have to have beach volleyball and synchronised swimming in our capital, can we get our architects to make sure that they're staged in style?

  • Comment

    Loss leader

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer has won a tax case allowing it to use losses made by Europe subsidiaries to cut its UK tax bill. So what does that mean for construction firms?

  • Comment

    Mr Jackson's justice

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Up until now, PFI contracts have contained clauses intended to separate contractors from their statutory rights. This is not lawful

  • News

    Reshuffle at Miller Homes

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Miller Group, the Scottish housebuilder, contractor and commercial developer, has restructured its housebuilding business after its £264m acquisition of Fairclough Homes last September.

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    A veritable surfeit of celebs: the latest on the Frank Gehry and Brad Pitt ‘collaboration', the Tebbits set up shop and Lord Brockett in the house of wax

  • News

    Handy for the shops …

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Australian retail developer Westfield could include housing around its £1.5bn White City shopping centre in west London.

  • Heron Tower
    News

    The Heron takes flight

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Heron Tower, the London office block designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, was granted planning permission this week.

  • Fish illustration
    Features

    It's feeding time

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Mergermania hit construction in 2005. Now the predators are circling again in contracting, consulting, housebuilding and building materials. Angela Monaghan and Mark Leftly ask who'll get snapped up next - and who'll do the snapping