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Four in race for GLA headquarters contract
Four contractors are in the race to construction manage the £40m headquarters of the Greater London Authority next to Tower Bridge. Bovis, Mace, Schal and Exterior were shortlisted at the end of last week for the £25m contract. It is understood that the four were whittled down from 10 firms. ...
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BRE to hold life costings
A forum is to be created to share information on the whole-life costs of buildings, with the Building Research Establishment acting as a repository for the data. The decision to create a costings database was made at a seminar last week run by the whole-life costing ...
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Work halts on £200m King’s College PFI scheme
Pickets claim principal contractor should honour subcontractor s outstanding pay bill on London college.
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Entrepreneur withdraws offer to take over MDA
STG chairman Allesch-Taylor decides instead to use 29.75% stake as lever to improve QS s performance.
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RIBA forms action plan
The RIBA has issued a five-year action plan to help architects become more efficient and give them enhanced status in society. In a booklet, Meeting the Challenge, a Strategy for Architecture and Architects 1999-2003, published last week, the RIBA urges architects to face up to the requirements of ...
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Foster wins Hull competition
A consortium including architect Foster and Partners has won a competition to redevelop 11.7 ha of Hull city centre. The consortium, led by London & Amsterdam Properties, is understood to have beaten three other consortia led by Amec, Miller and Norseman for the £80m contract. The scheme will transform the ...
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Kosovo taskforce to return to region
The government s Kosovo taskforce could be back in the war-torn region as early as next week. Taskforce chairman Nigel Thompson said he wanted to get teams of suitably skilled people into Kosovo to work with the British Army as soon as possible and encouraged British contractors to think ...
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HBF launches brownfield hotline
Housebuilders group asks public to report derelict sites suitable for redevelopment in response to urban taskforce report.
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Mowlem and Shepherd settle Teesside PFI dispute
Contractors agree peace deal after row over construction contract at North-east hospital.
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All change at Sir Robert McAlpine
New director of operations appointed as family moves to buy up more of parent company.
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Crest is next to tackle urban challenge
Crest Nicholson is making a big push into high-density, high-design urban residential development on brownfield land. In a presentation to City analysts, Crest announced 11 large sites of which eight are brownfield where it will build mixed-use schemes. Chief executive John Calcutt said: For the ...
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Amey goes for re-listing
Amey has been tipped to try for a second time to be listed as a support services company, following its acquisition of support services group Comax for £86m last week. The contractor, which has been campaigning to change sector for some time, was refused a re-listing by FTSE indices manager ...
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Tarmac confident it will beat demerger protests
Firm receives enough assurances from investors to see off critics of payments to executives.
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What difference does a year make?
Did the Egan report really announce a cultural revolution in construction? As a conference prepares to mull over the changes one year on, Building analyses the response of both industry and clients.
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John Hobson
The man charged with implementing Egan has a job-and-half on his hands. But with bosses John Prescott and Nick Raynsford respectively providing power and commitment, he believes he has the backing to do it
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Reasons to be cheerful
A look at the impact of the Egan report by the man that reported on construction five years ago.
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Re-educating clients
Contractors can t make all the changes Sir John Egan called for on their own. Clients have to play their part, too.
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Measuring for real
The key performance indicators could change the way clients select firms, but are they up to the job? Building asked Gardiner & Theobald to test them on real-life projects.
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The benchmark [Asda superstore, Swansea]
The fourth in Building s series highlighting best practice looks at how Kajima used prefabrication and performance monitoring to achieve major time and cost savings on Asda s new Swansea store. A panel of experts looks at how it was done.
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On the right track
How Bovis is using bar coding technology from the retail sector to manage the supply chain on an Egan demonstration project.