All articles by Adrian Barrick – Page 2
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Cracking the crusties
Remember Swampy? You might think those noisy, unkempt students who hijacked bulldozers at Twyford Down would have settled into a placid middle age in Basingstoke by now.
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Worse yet
The smouldering row over the Scottish parliament has roared back into life after our disclosure that it won't be finished until July next year, eight months after the previous deadline. This further delay will lift the cost of the project to about £400m – either 10 times, four times, or ...
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NewsHolyrood: 300 design changes in July point to even more delays to come
The deadline for the Scottish parliament has been put back six months – but the indications are that it may slide further yet.
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Cad illustrations
For any male employer who's a little unsure about how to manage women, here's some helpful advice from the Womenback2work website.
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NewsAtkins poaches Clarke
Skanska 'not best pleased' after one of its top executives jumps ship to head UK's largest consultant.
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Gordon plays house
Gordon Brown found himself in the opposite position this week of Captain Yossarian, Joseph Heller's cursed hero of Catch-22
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The enemy within
There was quite an outcry last year when Building revealed Jarvis' claim that sabotage may have been to blame for the Potters Bar rail tragedy
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Be very, very careful
Given the predicament of the UK market, it's no surprise to learn that fidgety construction bosses are turning their gaze overseas
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Miliband's terms
Education minister David Miliband describes his mission to bring every secondary school in Britain up to scratch as "provocative" and "challenging". So it will be – and not just for educationalists and local authorities, but for their suppliers in construction, too. On the face of it, Miliband's timing couldn't be ...
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CABE on the threshold
One of the more remarkable British success stories since the millennium has been the rise of CABE, whose leading lights feature on this week's cover.
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Adios Amey, hola Ferrovial
Imagine how happy Amey's shareholders felt when their £1bn investment (2002) was knocked down to £81m last Wednesday (see news).
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Tear down the wall
It was just a throwaway line in Gordon Brown's excruciatingly prolix Budget speech, but its impact on contractors may be immense.
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Leading the evolution
To all appearances, little has changed since the last Building Awards a year ago.
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Not a holiday camp
A decade after it was launched, journalists have finally been given their first glimpse of Britain's biggest and most awesome building project, Heathrow Terminal 5. There's not much to see yet – just a few cranes and the odd dumper truck rumbling through the dirt (pages 24-27). But this is ...
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Bombs on a budget
This week, our attentions shift to the damage that the war is causing on the home front (pages 22-23). It would be a cruel irony if investment in public services was halted to pay for Iraq just when the contracts are starting to flow. But nobody is under any illusions ...
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One or two points …
Wouldn't it be glorious if London could have a rail terminus to rival New York's Grand Central?
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Fight Ken’s development tax
Today, we launch a campaign to win construction an exemption from Ken Livingstone’s congestion charge.
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War: What it is good for
There's a stockbrokers' adage about trading in times of conflict: "Sell on the sabre-rattle, buy on the battle".
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The devil's bargain
John Prescott can't cut a deal with the firefighters, but he's found more compliant negotiating partners in housebuilders.
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