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Military school launches £100m PFI project
Contractors asked to train engineers and rebuild estates in Surrey and Kent.
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Crunch talks over Cardiff stadium
Rugby World Cup organisers were in urgent talks in Cardiff this week over the staging of October s final at the £120m Cardiff Millennium Stadium. The decision will be based on a report on the stadium s progress by Ove Arup & Partners, which has been commissioned by Rugby ...
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Measuring performance
New methods for measuring contractors and consultants performance were unveiled this week. The 10 key performance indicators, which are backed by construction minister Nick Raynsford, are intended to show whether industry is meeting the improvement targets set out in the Egan report. Clients are keen to ...
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Clients forum pushes whloe-life costing
The Construction Clients Forum is telling members to use whole-life costing to judge best value for all construction projects. The forum will send a letter to its members explaining the benefits of examining the maintenance costs of building components as well as their initial cost. The letter is ...
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Muf wins St Albans Roman visitor centre
Collective beats six other practices in competition to build a £500 000 landmark visitor centre on ancient site.
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Clients blast industry's partnering record
Slough Estates' Rimmer and Railtrack's Murray slate contractors for not understanding process.
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McAlpine boss fends off investor putsch
Whitehead to maintain strategy as Phillips & Drew backs mystery buyer.
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Acquisition helps Westbury hit record profit
Housebuilder Westbury has announced a record profit for the 12 months since it bought John Maunders. Pre-tax profit rose 44% to £44.1m in the year to 28 February 1999, with house sales up 24% to 4283. This figure included 942 sales from former John Maunders businesses, which Westbury bought last ...
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Cala buyout team awaits Miller move
Managers on tenterhooks as rival ponders increased bid for Scots housebuilder.
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Contractors break up their
Conglomerates are out; core businesses are in. Over the next eight pages, Building talks to the bosses of four of the UK s biggest contractors and finds out how they re getting back to what they do best.
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Sir Neville Simms: Why I’m giving in to City demands strip
Tarmac chief executive Sir Neville Simms believed he had pared back his business enough when he swapped his housing arm for Wimpey s minerals business in 1996. But with Tarmac s share price remaining well below what Sir Neville believes is its true value, he is now preparing a further ...
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Sir Frank Lampl: Jumping the P&O ship will allow Bovis to chart its own destiny
For Bovis chairman Sir Frank Lampl, winning the contract to build Eurodisney in spring 1987 was a highlight of his career one of the first forays out of the UK that transformed the contractor. Unfortunately, the stock market was not similarly overjoyed the share price of ...
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Keith Clarke: We’d rather be dull and profitable than all boats and flags
Trafalgar House was a symbol of the buccaneering 1980s, as the £3.2bn-a-year Ritz Hotels-to-contracting group seemed to grow and grow. Returns for investors shot up, too, until inflation slowed and Trafalgar House hit trouble. The party was over long before Norwegian giant Kvaerner bought the firm in 1996, but for ...
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Mike Welton: Unravelling from cables will allow Balfour Beatty to be a pure contractor
British Insulated Calendar Cables has been one of the great names of UK industry for 30 years, spending much of that time as one of the country s top 100 companies. When contracting faltered, the cables business rescued it, and vice versa. At least that was the idea, but cables ...
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Pees in a pod
First person Bathrooms prefabricated in the 1960s were a flop, despite cutting-edge design. But were they merely ahead of their time?
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Primary colours
A new prefab school extension could help the government hit its target for 2500 extra classrooms. And the first one now is in place, providing a bright and stimulating environment for 5- to 11-year-olds in Colchester.
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From factory to Hackney
Fully fitted-out modules, prefabricated in York and craned into place, have made their first appearance in a multistorey housing scheme.
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Motor homes
Ove Arup's ex-Jaguar man wants to use automated car production techniques to take factory built housing a step beyond current models.
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Added value
When one of the UK s fastest growing construction companies decided to overhaul its accounts system, it opted for a Window-based solution, that gave employees the independence to access the network.