All Features articles – Page 654
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Appointments
ContractorsIan Jackson has joined Brunswick Construction as group business development manager.Northampton-based Sterof has appointed Kevin Foster managing director. Peter Stasiuk has been made commercial director, Ian Morrow has joined as production director and Sultan Najafi has become financial director and company secretary.HousebuilderKent-based Ward Homes has appointed Marilyn Aris area field ...
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Bernard Ainsworth Millennium Dome
Regulars at the Pilot inn, north Greenwich, have grown accustomed to bumping into Millennium Dome project director Bernard Ainsworth. It is here he finds refuge from the travails of running Britain’s most controversial, high-profile construction job. As project director for joint-venture contractor McAlpine Laing, Ainsworth is responsible for delivering the ...
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21st century vox
As the century ends, industry leaders and stars of tomorrow offer their visions for the future of construction. What will it be like in the year 2005 and beyond?
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Room for review
Is the UK complying with European competition law? A recent judgment by the European Court throws doubt on the UK's implementation of procurement directives.
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The problem of the scale
Churchill described Britain and America as "divided by a common language". So what chance has the design team when architects and engineers can't agree on the scale of their drawings?
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Work and playstation
Fledgeling construction manager Exterior has been given the chance to prove itself on a £20m headquarters for computer games giant Electronic Arts. How is it coping?
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Post modern
Architect Alan J Smith has turned Newcastle's Victorian head post office into one of the most comprehensive mixed-use developments of our times.
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Love me tender
When competitive tenders are sought in the public sector, an implied contract exists whereby the prospective employer agrees to treat all tenderers fairly. Might this not also apply to the private sector?
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Lawyers' love letters
"Letters of intent" are there to get the works started while the contract gets sorted out. But if things go wrong before that happens, all sorts of wonderful things can happen. Wonderful for lawyers, that is.
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Cost update
This quarterly analysis looks at changes to material prices, labour costs and work item rates.
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In the chair
Ten tips on how to prevent your meeting becoming unfocused, an office popularity contest or a downright brawl.
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Beverley Hughes
Construction may be only one of the junior minister's responsibilities, but her message is that the industry is vital to Labour's wider agenda.
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Appointments
ContractorsBristol-based Stoneform has appointed Richard Godby contracts manager.Leigh Davidson has been made head of marketing in the Yorkshire division of Ballast Wiltshier.ConsultantsChartered QS and project manager Burtenshaws has promoted Terry Game, John Cheshire, John Knowles, Mark Matthews and Martin Browes to associates. Ahmed Zghari has joined the firm’s London office ...
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Possession and loss
There’s an implied term in all contracts that the employer gives the contractor possession of the site. So, who bears the extra costs when Basque activists arrive?
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The knowledge
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale on getting the data you need without suffering information overload.
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Do your homework
The schools market is not, so far, one of the PFI’s success stories, but a £1.6bn build programme is about to change all that for the firms prepared to put in the effort.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Building for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than £2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at Building’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.