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Crane calls for unamendable contracts
Movement for Innovation chairman Alan Crane has called for a non-adversarial contract that cannot be amended in a bid to encourage all firms on projects to work together.Speaking at a Movement for Innovation conference, Crane said one of the biggest barriers to changing the way the industry operated was forms ...
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Home Office PFI bidder threatens to pull out
New bid documents require more detailed information and increase risk, claims shortlisted team.
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Specialists support debt reform plan
Specialist contractors are backing government proposals that will help them recover money from insolvent contractors and clients.The Department of Trade and Industry Insolvency Service and the Treasury want to end the privileged status of banks and the Crown when companies go bust. This would mean that all creditors have an ...
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£1bn Rochester shortlist
Three consortia have been shortlisted for the £1bn redevelopment of Rochester riverside.Berkeley Homes with HTA Architects, Crest Nicholson with Tibbalds Monro Architects and Wimpey with PRC Fewster Architects were chosen this week by Medway council from a longlist of seven.The four teams will make proposals for a mixed-use development on ...
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Wembley appoints advisers for £1bn development
Architect and QS chosen for huge regeneration scheme for run-down area around stadium.
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Baldrick bolsters Stonehenge PFI team
Teams shortlisted for the development of a visitor centre at Stonehenge have signed up some celebrity help.Tony Robinson, best known as Baldrick in BBC TV's Blackadder and now presenter of archeological programme Time Team, and Princess Diana's brother Lord Althorp are advising consortia for the private finance initiative project.According ...
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Woolf shows its teeth in World Cargocentre case
Time and costs in dispute between Alstom and British Airways has been slashed by new legal rules.
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Open up, Smith tells architects
Culture Secretary Chris Smith this week challenged architects to open up the profession to the wider public, and particularly to ethnic minorities.Speaking at the launch of Architecture Week 1999 on Tuesday, Chris Smith said one of his personal objectives as culture minister was "to challenge, and, where possible, break down ...
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Kvaerner may buy troubled Fearnley
Kvaerner is looking to buy parts of Fearnley Group – the Manchester-based contractor that went into receivership last month.Andrew Fearnley, managing director and chairman of Fearnley Construction, said that Kvaerner had made enquiries about the business and was due to visit the company by the end of the week. ...
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Coalfields' £354m scheme
Deputy prime minister John Prescott this week launched a £12m public-private scheme to develop 50 000 m2 of office space in former coalfield regions.Prescott launched the scheme called Network Space, a joint venture between English Partnerships and St Helens-based Langtree Group, on Monday at the 1999 Coalfields Conference in ...
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JCT set to tackle PFI contracts
Contract-drafting body may shed traditionalist image by drafting forms for new-style procurement routes.
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Dangerous designers criticised
A leading health and safety consultant last week fired a broadside at designers for failing to address safety in design.Speaking at the Construction Confederation's national safety conference, Managing Risk – Adding Value, former Health and Safety Executive inspector and chartered civil engineer Michael Williams said poor design had caused some ...
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Roadbuilders face new government levies
Government to charge for time spent digging up roads and introduce tougher penalties for overruns.
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Cyril Sweett unveils one-stop advice shop
QS's new 40-strong division to provide strategic advice not tied to specific construction projects.
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Construction costs to rise, says RICS
Rising workload and a tightening labour market are set to push up construction costs, says the RICS' latest market report.The RICS' third-quarter survey says activity will increase strongly during the next 12 months and that this, combined with the strength of the labour market, will "feed through to construction costs ...
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Gleeson slams D&B as contracting profit drops
Contracting arm's profit falls 44% after "fundamental problems" on housing contracts.
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Simms to get £3.4m if Carillion shares double
Carillion chairman Sir Neville Simms could bag more than £3m if he can double the former Tarmac construction arm's share price over the next three years.The company announced last week that 121 directors and senior managers had signed up to the management incentive scheme, called the "Founder's Equity ...
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Tale of the unexpected
Outlandish stitched-together bulbous shapes, coloured glass walls, skewed stilts and even a "beret" make up Peckham's new public library. But, then, this is an Alsop & Störmer design …
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How did they do that?
Will Alsop, senior partner of architect Alsop & Störmer, is keen to reassure British clients that his non-conformist designs do not entail greater risk than more conventional building forms. "None of our buildings has fallen down, they're all built on budget, and they've all got good maintenance records," he says.Although ...
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Green fingers
Architect Bill Dunster has championed sustainable design at work and home. Now, he's about to combine the two with a low-energy scheme modelled on his own house.