All Building articles in 2006 issue 32 – Page 5
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Ennstone buys concrete firm
Materials group Ennstone has bought Jackson Precast, an east Midlands concrete firm, for £6.2m. Jackson Precast’s turnover last year was £3.7m.
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Lend Lease to build Northants schools
Lend Lease Projects has been appointed to develop three schools as part of Northamptonshire council’s £75m capital works programme.
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Currie & Brown sackings were for ‘gross misconduct’
Consultant confirms that three directors were dismissed after planning move to rival firm
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McInerney buys British
Irish residential developer McInerney Holdings has bought Bowey Homes, of north-east England, for £23.6m. Bowey has 13 sites in development with five more in the pipeline.
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Schools body names chief executive
Partnerships for Schools, the delivery body for the £45bn Building Schools for the Future programme, has appointed a chief executive.
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FeaturesThree men and their boats
With just a month until the Little Britain Challenge Cup gets under way, Katie Puckett meets three industry amphibians who’ve found true love off the coast of England
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CABE pans Blackpool supercasino
CABE has attacked Gensler’s design for a 160,000 m2 supercasino in Blackpool, the first of its kind to undergo a design review.
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Comment
Bingham: still looking buff
I add my compliments to those who have praised the new format and design of Building. Properly thought-out changes for the better – surely a message for the industry.
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Taylor Woodrow rules out Olympic stadium bid
Taylor Woodrow has ruled itself out of the race to build the Olympic stadium.
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CommentAn idiot’s guide to being an idiot
Rudi Klein Novation transfers the risk of design liability to those who may have had precious little to do with the design. How smart is that?
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Comment
Survey begets survey
After my experiences training to become a home inspector I’m not surprised that the home condition report has been dropped.
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NewsThe beauty of Bolsover
Architect HOK International has designed this mixed-use development for clients Ridgeford Properties and Manhattan Loft Corporation.
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Gleeds wins Battersea power station contract
Gleeds has been appointed cost consultant on the construction phase of the £1.5bn Battersea power station project.
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CommentBack here in the real world …
Richard Steer wasn’t surprised to read that the cost of the London Olympics is set to rise – they nearly always do. What counts is what you get for the money
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Morrison joins asbestos firm
Gordon Morrison, a former board member of contractor Morrison and its one-time parent AWG, has been appointed non-executive director of Silverdell, an asbestos remediation firm listed on the alternative investment market.
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Robertson appointment
Scottish group Robertson has appointed Angus MacInnes as managing director of its construction arm, which includes five regional businesses. MacInnes previously worked for contractors Carillion and Skanska.
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NewsSimon Cowell helps brother make it big in America
X-Factor’s Mr Nasty woos potential clients for brother’s construction marketing business
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NewsMorgan cautious after profit rise
John Morgan, the executive chairman of Morgan Sindall, said this week that the group’s construction division still had “a long way to go” despite posting an interim profit.
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Comment
A load of syphonic action
I was at the Science Museum last week with my grandson and among the interesting displays was the syphonic-action flushing system invented by Thomas Crapper.