All Archive Titles articles – Page 926
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Abbeyfield UK starts 750-home development spree
New housing group for elderly to spend £30m over five years across country
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2nd opinion: Bombay nightmares
Chris Holmes on homelessness in India and what it tells us about the way we handle our own rural housing problems
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Raynsford: falling star councils to get 12 months' grace
Councils that lose their three-star status will be able to retain the autonomy given to "excellent" local authorities for at least a year, local government minister Nick Raynsford announced on 5 November.
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Associations link up to hit Corporation's £10m threshold
Cambridge pair are first to form a consortium in the wake of £3.3bn funding announcement
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Work to rules
Regulations: they make your life harder, but what you hand over better. for more information on a product, go to www.construction-manager.co.uk/enquiries
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Put the I in team
September's CIBSE/ASHRAE gathering highlighted the need for better teamwork across the construction industry.
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PFI
Awards sponsored by Coins GoldJulian Daniel, BovisClientHM TreasuryProjectGrade II refurbishmentValue£96.4 millionTermsBespoke design and buildRemaking historyJulian Daniel kept disruption low and hawk-eyed civil servants satisfiedThe redevelopment of ...
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Archive TitlesMonth in numbers
101The number of floors in the world's new tallest tower, Taipei 101, in Taiwan. Contractor Kumagai Gumi lifted the final 60m spire into place in October.Work on the 509m tower halted for two months in March 2002 after an earthquake caused two of the project's cranes to fall from the ...
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The minister for skills writes...
If we're to persuade young people to make a career in construction, it's vital to overcome our national prejudice against vocational education. It's a prejudice that not only undermines youngsters who are on vocational programmes; it's harmful to an economy crying out for more skilled workers, particularly at technician level.One ...
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Sports and Leisure
GoldGraham Lumberg, Laing O’RourkeProject2002 Commonwealth Games, City of Manchester StadiumValue£115 millionTermsOriginally two stage D&C, ultimately CMLet the games beginGraham Lumberg built a stadium fit for a global celebrationWith the award of the 2003 Commonwealth Games to Manchester came the huge task of providing a ...
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Last-minute panic
Who is at fault here, the client or the consultants? Contractor Cresspark was refurbishing a block of flats in Maida Vale for client Morshead Mansions, but was instructed to stop because the client was having cashflow problems. QS and contract administrator Love Jenkins Associates sent the instruction on 7 April ...
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Archive TitlesSuspended judgement
Only two days after the 16-screen cinema in Manchester's Great Northern Warehouse opened, the ceiling in Screen 6 collapsed, damaging seats, carpets and decorations. The owners, AMC Europe, closed the whole complex for checks and repairs on December 21, 2001. After investigation and repairs, the cinema re-opened on January 25 ...
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Archive TitlesThe right tools for the job
New generation design tools are enabling more engineers to use software as a way of finding answers to complex problems. We look at how some of the new software packages work.
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Archive TitlesTAG McLaren new HQ opens
TAG McLaren Group has unveiled its new 60 000 m2 corporate and production headquarters in Woking, Surrey. The building incorporates design studios, laboratories, research and testing facilities, electronics development, machine shops and prototyping and production facilities for the Team McLaren Mercedes F1 cars and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. It also ...
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Housing over three storeys
Award sponsored by Hays Montrose GoldDarren Dockerill, Bellwinch HomesProjectPhase 1 of 145 houses and flats beach development, EastbourneValue£2m of ...
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Housing three storeys and under
Awards sponsored by Hays Montrose GoldPierce Browne, George Wimpey West MidlandsProjectThe Moated Manor, near Bridgenorth. 13 luxury homes ...
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HVCA hits out at retentions
The Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association (HVCA) is confident that the construction industry could see the back of retentions by 2007.
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Archive TitlesHis, by right
Malcolm Nelson devoted years to this project before being recognised as its rightful leader. Rod Sweet charts a planner's path to glory.