More news – Page 4201
-
News
Architects named for £120m estate
Peabody Trust has appointed Jestico + Whiles and Stock Woolstencroft as lead architects for the £120m redevelopment of Hackney council's Kings Crescent estate in north London.
-
NewsNext stop
This bus station, planned for Warrington, Cheshire, has received £6.3m of government transport improvement funding to go with £2.5m contributed by Legal & General. Warrington council has appointed architect Austin Smith:Lord and consultants WSP and Drivers. Public consultation on the scheme will take place over the next few months.
-
NewsBest layed plan
Contractor Laing O'Rourke is due to complete construction of the £35m South East Essex College in Southend next year. The project is a rebuild of four 1960s buildings that were struggling to operate because of soaring maintenance bills. It contains 500 m2 of open-plan teaching space, divided into 25 units ...
-
News
Retail bonanza in store after Safeway deal
Contractors were this week looking forward to a wave of supermarket work once the battle over the future of the Safeway group is decided.
-
News
Lend Lease wins V&A deal
Lend lease has won a framework contract to oversee £150m of construction work at the Victoria & Albert Museum in central London, including Daniel Libeskind's £75m spiral extension.
-
NewsLoving the alien
The Austrian city of Graz, this year's European City of Culture, is building itself this modern art gallery. The building, nicknamed the "friendly alien", was designed by British architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier and is due to open in September. The London-based partners won an international architecture competition ...
-
News
Skanska changes results policy
Contractor Skanska is to change the way it reports its financial results to make its performance more transparent.
-
News
Upping the ante
The pay deal for workers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 will have left employers and unions sharpening their swords – and electricians and firefighters gnashing their teeth
-
Comment
"Not valid" is no decision at all
The petitioner, Ballast Plc, was a management contractor for a development for the respondent, the Burrell Company, in Glasgow. The terms of the contract were a JCT form of management contract 1987 edition. A dispute arose in respect of the valuations. The amount of the valuations fluctuated, and that dispute ...
-
-
NewsBickerton: Aviss and Artisan fight it out in court
High Court writs fly as Serious Fraud Office continues its investigation into collapse of regional contractor.
-
News
Firms pin their hopes for 2003 on public spending
Companies and analysts look to government to take up the slack left by the fall in commercial work.
-
Comment
More cherry, anyone?
If you take a dispute to adjudication and lose, can you go for a second bite? The answer is that you can't adjudicate a dispute twice – except when you can …
-
News
Laing charged over deaths in 1995
Contractor John Laing Services is to be prosecuted at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, eight years after two construction workers were killed on one of its sites in central London.
-
NewsEx-Skanska boss set to take over Galliford Try
Former Skanska boss Andy Sturgess has been tipped to succeed David Calverley as chief executive of Galliford Try after his appointment as managing director of the construction arm.
-
News
Confusion reigns after Thameslink 2000 axed
The future of big rail projects in the UK is now in doubt after Network Rail shelved plans this week for Thameslink 2000, the £2bn north-south London link.
-
News
Risky clauses may deter buyers for Amey
As speculation intensifies about a possible takeover of Amey, analysts are warning potential buyers that a sale may allow clients to cancel their contracts with the support services group.
-
NewsIndustry misses chance to avoid congestion charge
City chiefs shocked by lack of lobbying to win concessions, and Peter Rogers warns of anger and confusion.
-
News
Egan bodies set to cut numbers by merging
Rethinking Construction, the umbrella body overseeing the implementation of the Egan agenda, is considering a merger with one of its subsidiary organisations.
-
News
DL&E to get new boss
Rob Smith is taking over the reins from Paul Morrell as senior partner at quantity surveyor Davis Langdon & Everest.