More Focus – Page 532
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Balancing the books
Your company s had a profitable year, but you re stretching the overdraft and can t pay the directors bonuses. Sound familiar? Your problem is cash flow here s how to deal with it.
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Just the job
Phil Clark asks the managing director of fit-out firm Newco Interiors what s happening indoors.
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Appointments
Contractors Sterof has appointed Steve Cottrell commercial manager and Mike Hogg management surveyor. Ian Falshaw has joined Harrison Developments of Malton, North Yorkshire, as associate director of developments. Weaver Construction, which is based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, has appointed Julian Kawecki managing director. Housebuilders Lovell has appointed Bob ...
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Where have all the students gone?
There are twice as many building services lecturers as students in the group above. By 2002, the course will have disappeared. It is one of a growing group of construction degrees closing because of a lack of applicants while employers are reporting a dearth of graduates to fill jobs. In ...
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The Lord's test
It's a far cry from the leather-and-willow image of cricket, but Future Systems' media centre has already become part of the Lord's scenery. The question is, do Aggers, Blowers et al like it?
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Shed Zeppelin
The blimp is back. A German firm has plans to revive the airship in the form of a fleet of huge cargo carriers. And, of course, colossal gasbags need an even bigger hangar to be built in. The problems were, well, vast.
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WAP to the future
Mobile phones are as ubiquitous as hard hats and muddy boots these days. But a new generation using WAP technology is set to extend their role and introduce the m-commerce era.
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Fighting for one’s clause
Tolent Construction has a home-made clause in its subcontract agreement that is supposedly designed to deter spurious claims , but is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
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Causing death and saving lives
The government is concerned that a firm can be prosecuted and convicted for the death of a worker, and then get away with a paltry £1000 fine. So, it has come up with two initiatives. But only one will work
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Added extras
The courts can impose penalties on defendants who fail to accept a claimant s offer of settlement, but how severe should they be? Lord Woolf has now given some clues.
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Tender price forecast
Tender prices continue to be driven up by labour costs, although prices are not seeing the steep increases of the previous two quarters. Margins throughout the supply chain have improved.
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The lying game
Angela Baron of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development on how to spot CVs that are full of porkies.
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Appointments
Contractors Derbyshire-based Bowmer & Kirkland has promoted Keith Whitmore to main board director. Refurbishment and fit-out contractor Motives Group has appointed Lee Morton group business development manager in London. Housebuilders Jones Homes (Southern) has promoted Jon Siddaway to division technical director. Jan Parker has joined Stamford ...
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The battle for brownfield
The government’s brownfield policy is under siege. Last week, Lord Rogers launched an attack on its lack of progress; this week, parliament said he was right. Meanwhile, housebuilders struggle with the torpid planning system to deliver urban dwellings.
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The new west
Readers were treated to a preview of Bristol’s three new lottery projects, which opened yesterday, organised by Building and Corus. While the visitor attractions are impressive, it’s the open spaces around them that holds it all together.
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40 under forty
Meet the future of the industry. These are 40 of the bright young professionals who will be shaping construction in the 21st century. We’ve omitted those thirtysomethings already running large firms, such as Oliver Jones of Citex and Bovis Lend Lease’s Ross Taylor, and no doubt there are others we ...
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Life saving
High quality for low cost was the brief for a £125m PFI hospital. For Kvaerner’s facilities management team, that meant planning 30 years of operation before a brick was laid.
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Fuels paradise
Thanks to the deregulation of the utilities, housebuilders can save money, make their developments more attractive to buyers and be green as well.
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Can you sue the referee?
In its subcontracts, Mowlem insists that a barrister from a particular chambers is used. When the other party put its own man in, Mowlem threatened to sue him. What happened next?