All articles by Denise Chevin – Page 12
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CommentFall-out shelter
Will we ever have an industry in which well-run subcontractors do not continually face financial ruin because they happen to work for a contractor that goes bust?
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CommentJust not good enough
What verdict should the Health and Safety Executive pass on the construction industry at next week’s summit?
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CommentOne project away from disaster
It’s a cruel study in contrasting fortunes. In the same week that BP announced a £9.3bn profit, Mowlem issued another profit warning
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News
Rouse declares £3.5bn free-for-all
The Housing Corporation has decided to open the whole of its £3.5bn grant allocation to private developers, beginning with this summer’s 2006/08 bidding round.
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CommentMuch done, more to do
Credit where it’s due. When John Prescott and his colleagues gather in Manchester next week to take the pulse of the regeneration effort, they can feel a little pleased with themselves (see pages 40-52).
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CommentRule Britannia
How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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CommentA great leap forward
With its grand entrance, impressive atrium, relaxed restaurants and break-out spaces, Bexley Academy in south-east London is more blue-chip corporate headquarters than secondary school.
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CommentLet’s talk about sex
In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.
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CommentDon’t panic
The housing market. It’s a national obsession. Doubly so if you work in the construction industry and your memory stretches back to the early 1990s, the big crash and the grisly business of cutting people out of the wreckage of their homes and jobs.
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CommentGood times don’t come cheap
“We’ve had six fantastic years of steady growth. Now it feels much more fragile.”
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Comment
Laboured, not loved
“The British people have lost confidence in Tony Blair but still prefer him as prime minister to Michael Howard,“ a poll in The Times revealed this week.
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CommentHolyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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Comment
When will you pay me?
The plight of Spectrum, the fit-out contractor that called in the administrators last week, illustrates why passions are running so high on the subject of payment (see news).
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CommentMultiplex on the spot
The FA may have other things on its mind than the construction of Wembley, but news that the stadium is presently hosting a good old-fashioned firefight between sub and main contractors should give anyone left at Soho Square additional cause for concern.
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CommentContract killing
Nobody will be in the least critical of Montpellier’s decision to walk away from Oxford University’s medical research centre. Over the past few months, animal rights activists have subjected management, shareholders, staff and their families to vile intimidation, vandalism and fraud.
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News
Hope for the new year
To mark the launch of the new-look Building website we look back at the events that shaped the construction industry in 2001.
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Features
Safety match
The unions' drive to improve site safety is putting them into a privileged position with the government's top decision-makers. This growth in their political clout has far-reaching implications for all sides of industry.
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News
Meacher to spearhead creation of safety body
Unions pleased with plan for new ministerial role but employers ask why Nick Raynsford has been ignored.