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Trust funds
London housing association the Peabody Trust spends 拢50m on construction every year. And if you are an innovative architect or a time-saving sustainable contractor, it wants to hear from you.
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Materials life costs
Timber windows are the focus of the first in a new series on the whole-life costs of materials, compiled by 精东影视 Performance Group to help specifiers and clients.
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Appointments
Contractors Peter Warren has been appointed business development director at Clegg Construction. Gerry Golden , managing director at Lilley Construction, has also been appointed managing director of Sunley Turriff. Lilley Construction director Keith Hyam has also become a director of Sunley Turriff. ...
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Contractors break up their
Conglomerates are out; core businesses are in. Over the next eight pages, 精东影视 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 拢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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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.
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Keeping up standards
The Joint Contracts Tribunal has published JCT98, the successor to JCT80 and all its amendments and supplements. So, what difference will it make?
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Just the limit
How effective are clauses that limit a consultant s liability to less than his or her total insurance cover? Until now this has been a grey area, but a recent decision has cast some light on how the courts will assess them.
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Our friends in the North
The Pathfinder Group report on the Scottish construction sector sees the new parliament as a potential champion for the industry.
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Another fine mess?
The Inland Revenue s new tax scheme for the construction industry expands the definition of those deemed to be contractors and renders employers liable to penalties if there is non-compliance.
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Spotlight on steelwork
Lead times Lead times for steelwork have plummeted over the past six months. From the dizzy heights of 16 weeks in the fourth quarter of 1998 the highest in eight years lead times are now only 12 weeks. For projects of less than 100 tonnes, short ...
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Appointments
Contractors David Taylor has joined the Scottish construction division of MJ Gleeson to head its private finance initiative unit. Peter Warters has been appointed marketing manager at Alfred McAlpine Construction. Shepherd Construction has appointed Peter Horsburgh regional director for London and the South-east. Try Construction has appointed ...
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Cost model: Land remediation
Land remediation is becoming a growth sector as government targets for brownfield development have been increased. In this month s cost model, Davis Langdon Everest looks at new laws on contaminated land and details the cost of clean-up techniques