All Building articles in 2006 issue 45 – Page 5
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Taylor Woodrow picks boss
The head of a healthcare services provider has been chosen as chief executive of Taylor Woodrow.
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Ex-finance chief in dispute with Bovis over bonus
Bovis Lend Lease is in dispute with Andrew Silverbeck, its former global chief financial officer, over a bonus payment.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country
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NewsWaiting to get better
It’s been pumped full of cash, had its hospitals replaced, its contractors reorganised and its clinics transplanted, and it’s still £1bn in debt and most of its procurement methods don’t work terribly well. Mark Leftly reports on what’s gone wrong with the government’s health policy
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CommentThe best laid plans
Rival engineers accidentally lay on parties at the same location, Frank Lampard fails to organise a trip to the zoo and Building hacks somehow conspire to win an intelligence test...
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FeaturesBeer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime
No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference
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Men behaving badly
A survey by the Chartered Institute of Building reveals that many in construction have a shockingly complacent attitude to corruption – and don’t even realise that certain practices are criminal
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Pascall + Watson tells staff of Atkins talks
International architect Pascall + Watson informed staff last week that it was the subject of takeover talks with Atkins, Britain’s largest consultant.
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Arup and Rendel ride in to fix Ascot grandstand crisis
Consultants are drafted in after racecourse receives more than 1,000 complaints
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NewsAn arrival in Dresden
Dresden station reopened this week after a £94m refurbishment designed by Foster and Partners and Buro Happold.
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NewsAnother partner leaves Foster
The exodus from Foster and Partners continued this week when it emerged that one of the practice’s longest serving partners will leave to set up his own consultancy
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CommentAre the Games in trouble already?
London’s euphoria at snatching the Olympic Games from the jaws of Paris has been washed away by a steady flow of news stories about the problems of delivery.
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Amec rejected all-share bid from Downer EDI
Amec rebuffed a takeover offer from Australian rival Downer EDI earlier this year because the offer was in shares and not cash.
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Pru drops housing plan after watchdog threatens veto
Insurance giant to revise Reading scheme after Environment Agency raises flood worries
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CommentThe times they have a-changed
Tony Bingham It used to be seen as bad form to adjudicate negligence claims against professional gentlemen. On the other hand, that does seem to be what parliament intended...
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NewsPicture perfect
Our photo-blogger is the former head of photography at the BRE so his regular insights into capturing perfect construction images should prove instructive
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