All Building articles in 2001 issue 13 – Page 2

  • News

    HTA claims over Village sacking

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Former Greenwich Millennium Village designer HTA Architects has put in a substantial claim against the developer that sacked it from the job

  • Comment

    Vehicle for change

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    David Mosey - Those who say writing partnering into contracts is a mistake are behind the times. The new way of working offered by PPC2000 is already a success

  • News

    Galliford Try buys two firms

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try this week announced the purchase of two small companies, and also revealed that it had won construction contracts worth £160m.

  • News

    Foot-and-mouth crisis paralyses small builders

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Rural firms fear the worst as work grinds to a halt on projects across the countryside

  • News

    Shipshape and Bristol fashion

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Regeneration specialist URBED will submit this masterplan for a £200m project to transform 20 ha of derelict land in Bristol at the end of April.

  • Features

    Five top management books

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Marketing: An Introductory Testby Martin Christopher and Malcolm McDonald Palgrave, £17.50This easy-to-read paperback covers the basics of marketing and introduces some useful jargon.Success Strategies for Design Professionalsby Weld Coxe, Nina Hartung, Hugh Hochberg, Brian Lewis, David Maister, Robert Mattox and Peter PivenKrieger Publishing, £34This book is a great analysis of ...

  • News

    Five in race for London's biggest brownfield prize

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Consortiums named for £800m mixed-use scheme in east London's Silvertown Dock.

  • News

    Bidders defiant over legal threat to Tube contracts

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Consortiums insist that government has nothing to fear from a judicial review into the part privatisation.

  • News

    Gleeson bets on the executive homes market

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Gleeson aims to continue a drive to increase the average price of its houses and has set itself a target of £180,000 in the next six months.

  • News

    Aukett profit slashed by US slowdown

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The US slowdown claimed its first UK victim this week when consultant Aukett warned that profit for the year would be 50% below market expectations.

  • News

    Arup: Fitzpatrick move is nothing to do with bridge

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Arup has hotly denied reports that Tony Fitzpatrick, the director and engineer in charge of the Millennium Bridge, has been transferred to the USA because of the bridge debacle.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    HousebuildersBill Wilcox (right) has joined Swan Hill's Sussex office as land executive.Redrow Homes has appointed Peter Hurst, formerly of Berkeley, special projects manager in South Wales.ConsultantsRichard Murphy Architects has promoted Bill Black to senior associate. Guido Maclellan, Matthew Bremner and James Mason have also been made associates.Consulting engineer Roger Preston ...

  • News

    Barratt grossly undervalued by City, say analysts

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Share price languishes at fraction of true value despite the announcement of record profit.

  • News

    YJL revealed as mystery Allen bidder

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Acquisitive contractor YJL is in the running to buy Allen's troubled construction business.

  • Comment

    Ahead of its time

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    James Bessey - says PPC2000 is fine, but English law just isn't ready for it yet, while on page 54 David Mosey, who drafted the heads of terms for the contract, defends his creation

  • News

    Green activists to target Carillion and Balfour Beatty

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Friends of the Earth set to launch new campaign against Birmingham Relief Road contractors.

  • News

    £850m London transport projects begin

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Four large-scale London infrastructure projects worth a total of £850m are set to move to the consultation stage in May.

  • News

    Amey frontrunner for £360m PFI plan

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Amey has been named preferred bidder for a large PFI project in Edinburgh.

  • News

    Hackney council plans 15-year CM deal

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Hackney council's housing department is considering letting a 15-year construction management deal for its £80m annual repair, maintenance and capital works programme.

  • Features

    Under £1m - Working from home

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    After a decade of wrangling with council planners, an imaginative live–work building by Studio E Architects occupies a derelict site in London's Barnes conservation area.