More Focus – Page 547
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A three-ring circus
Subcontractors remember: main contractors are within their rights to request a tripartite arbitration between themselves, you and the employer, but if they delay, you can start your own with them.
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Back to school
Mansell wants to be a global player, so it is sending its chief operating officer, Philip Cleaver, to Harvard University where he will rub shoulders with executives from around the world.
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How ya doing?
Hays Montrose’s Robert Smith tells bosses how to organise the perfect employee appraisal.
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Appointments
ContractorsTry Construction has promoted Jeff Adams to managing director of the Midlands region.Alfred McAlpine Civil Engineering has appointed Sarah Vincent business development manager.Warings Construction has appointed Mike Deavin operations manager of its Heathrow-based airport team. Yazdi Shroff joins the team as contracts manager and Mark Warrington has been made health ...
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Clash points
Nomination is fine. The problem is that in the past it tended to be another term for abuse of client power – which Ann's proposals for redistributing risk rather bring to mind. But there is a better way …
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e-construction starts here
The industry has finally logged on to the new industrial revolution. So, how will electronic trading and data interchange change the way construction firms do business?
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David Anderson
The new group managing director of O'Rourke has a reputation in contracting that means the subbie is probably glad to have him on its side. So, what plans does he have for the firm?
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Turned out nice again
It may have been voted Britain's third most popular modern building in a recent poll, but in reality, this 1930s people's palace has become tatty outside and garish inside. This is what John McAslan & Partners is doing about it.
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Every second counts
Structural engineers on a tight deadline no longer have to wait for the postman to deliver steelwork costings. Barrett Steel Buildings' on-line service can prepare a quote in two minutes flat.
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Column inches
Four men were crushed to death when a three-storey office collapsed on them in 1995. Five years later the truth has come out. The lessons we can learn should last much longer than this building did.
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Without a safety net
If you don't write a net contribution clause into your contract, you may find yourself paying all the damages for a breach that others are also responsible for. And it's not just insolvency that can land you in it …
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Did we have a deal?
Sometimes, parties seem to fall over themselves to help with their lawyers' home extension plans. For example, here's the tangle that results when the existence of a contract is disputed.
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Clash points
Everyone thinks there's still a place for nomination, but clients are deterred from doing it because it shovels a ludicrous amount of risk on to them. Time for contractors to shoulder a little more of the burden?
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International Costings
Building's annual worldwide round-up looks at building costs, labour rates, materials prices and inflation.
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Appointments
Contractors John Rivett has joined Wates Construction as its first design director.RW Buxton has appointed Paul Tooth construction manager for the West Midlands.Graham Hosking has been promoted to Cornwall area manager at Midas Construction. Also in Cornwall, Martin Walton has been made business development manager and Steve Luck construction manager. ...
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The player
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale explains how to become an expert office politician and stay ahead of the game.
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Anti-ageing formula
Boots' 1960s head office has been imperceptibly updated so that a building that was beautiful on the outside but showing its age on the inside now works as a whole.
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Now arriving: London's mega projects
A new breed of super-scheme is set to transform the capital over the next few years as bigger-than-ever projects move off the drawing-board. What's going on where?
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Allan Leighton
Wilson Connolly's new non-executive deputy chairman plans to revolutionise UK housebuilding using the techniques he learned in his day job – as Asda chief executive.
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If it's good enough for Farrell …
… it's good enough for other architects. Munkenbeck + Marshall's latest London loft conversion scheme is home to a host of designers, including Terry Farrell.