All articles by Andy Cook – Page 3
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Ministers refuse to budge over NHS staff transfers
Contractors accuse government of moving goalposts over decision to allow trusts to keep staff.
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Raynsford: State will fund anti-cowboy pilots
Construction minister to stay in job as he seeks Labour nomination for mayor of London.
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Railtrack winner Mott MacDonald fears shortages
East Coast Mainline project manager warns of overheating after Railtrack awards £10.7bn contracts.
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MOD under fire over prime contracts
Construction clashes with ministry over alleged lack of trust and payment terms.
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Schal beats rivals to £150m estate maintenance job
Mace and Bovis pipped in race for five-year deal to manage refurbishment of 20 000 homes in east London.
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Spectacular comeback
A £26m cost overrun, a redesign and a row have wreaked havoc at the flagship venue for the Rugby World Cup. But they are all behind it now – just two weeks before the first match.
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Andrew Wolstenholme
Six months after ditching half a dozen of its framework contractors and consultants, can BAA's construction director regain the trust of the industry?
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Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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Sainsbury construction chief in shock departure
Partnering innovator Charles Johnston considers setting up his own firm after quitting on Monday.
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Delay tax reforms until 2000, plead specialists
Small contractors turn to government to stop new CIS tax system killing businesses.
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Salford wins silver
Salford's steel-clad arts centre may not shimmer quite like Gehry's Guggenheim, but the complex lottery scheme is successfully attracting development and staying within its budget.
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Gleeds in quick fit call centre venture
QS hooks up with car parts supplier Unipart to produce cheap, off-the-shelf call centres.
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Franklin & Andrews moves into FM to boost fees
Top five quantity surveyor restructures to offer facilities management to clients.
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Measuring for real
The key performance indicators could change the way clients select firms, but are they up to the job? Building asked Gardiner & Theobald to test them on real-life projects.
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What difference does a year make?
Did the Egan report really announce a cultural revolution in construction? As a conference prepares to mull over the changes one year on, Building analyses the response of both industry and clients.
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Taking off
Disenchanted with central government s approach to the private finance initiative? There is a solution. Local authority PFI is getting airborne at Luton Airport and Bovis has just signed the first purely commercial contract.
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How do you measure up?
Long-awaited details of the government's initiative to help firms gauge their performance in the industry have been released this week. Here's how to work out if you're hitting those Egan targets.
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Trust funds
London housing association the Peabody Trust spends £50m on construction every year. And if you are an innovative architect or a time-saving sustainable contractor, it wants to hear from you.
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Access all areas
Taylor Woodrow, construction manager at Gatwick Airport, has created an intranet that lays open every facet of the job for every subcontractor and consultant to see.
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Student demo
The University of East London's new campus is the Egan demonstration project everyone is watching. With six months to go, the race is on to prove that its innovations work.
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