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Engineer expands into building sector
Engineering contractor Binnie Black & Veatch is expanding its Middlesbrough operations in a bid to win more work in the building sector. The company's Middlesbrough office has done most of its jobs for the water industry since it was set up five years ago. But technical director Tony Jefferson says ...
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Amey spends £6m to wow Railtrack
Services contractor invests in management technology to improve punctuality record and anticipate failures.
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1999 architects' fees survey
Architects' charges are closer to physiotherapists' than solicitors'. A new study by Mirza and Nacey Research shows that fees are inching up, but after seven years spent qualifying, is an average of £55 an hour a fair rate?
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The strength of Sampson
Claire Sampson, production director on the Millennium Dome, is a cool operator. Which is just as well, as she's co-ordinating the backstage elements for the whole shebang
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Egan à la carte
The Egan message may be all very well for the big boys of construction, but does it have any relevance to smaller firms?
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Creative tension
What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.
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Pet adjudicators
Tempting though it is to ensure that you get a tame adjudicator by writing their name into the contract document, you might be arming your opponent with a weapon of last resort.
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A matter of faith
A duty of good faith is increasingly being expressed or implied in consultants' contracts and could affect all aspects of their appointment but what exactly does it entail?
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Summing up number 35 – payments into court
In Berwin Leighton's series on legal basics, Joanne Rees explains payments into court
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Law in the electronic age
Electronic data management is the future for construction consultants. It's just terrific. The problem is that the legal and commercial framework doesn't support it yet.
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Clash points
The Woolf reforms have introduced a revolutionary change in legal culture. Has the subcontracting industry woken up to this, and is it ready to change its ways to cope with the new rules?
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Clash points
Specialist contractors are in the same state of uncertainty as everyone else when it comes to post-Woolf litigation but given the abysmal record of the courts pre-Woolf, it couldn't get much worse.
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Spotlight on brickwork
Lead times Although lead times are now steady at six weeks, rising enquiry and workload levels are expected to boost them in the autumn. Brickwork contractors report little difficulty in procuring materials, but cite the lack of qualified operatives as the critical factor in determining lead times. As ...
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Have your say
The Institute of Personnel and Development's Angela Baron on 360° feedback, the system that gets everyone talking.
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Appointments
Contractor Birse Construction has appointed Martin Peat managing director, building. He will also join the Birse board. Housebuilder Ronnie Jacobs , previously with Persimmon Homes Scotland, has joined Miller Homes as regional director for west Scotland. Consultants Michael Albright , previously chairman and chief executive of Centex ...
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PFI schemes set to dwindle in 2000
Project flow to be hit by delays on big schemes and funding problems sparked by the millennium bug.
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New tax crisis as Revenue runs out of paper
The construction industry’s new tax scheme is facing a crisis because the Inland Revenue is running out of vouchers.A Revenue source admitted that it has only 200 000 CIS25 forms left, less than a week’s supply, and said contractors should use their remaining copies of the tax repayment form only ...
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War of words breaks out over 2000 village ‘failure’
Former lead architect alleges multiple inadequacies but developer hits back in speech to HBF conference.
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Irregularities cause Wimpey profit fall
George Wimpey wrote off £4m of its Wimpey Homes division’s half-year profit after it discovered commercial and accounting irregularities in one of its regional businesses. Group chairman John Robinson said all Wimpey Homes’ regional arms had been investigated and he was confident that the problem was an isolated incident. “The ...