All Features articles – Page 666
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Not blind before the law
Lord Denning's career as a judge dedicated to common sense and the righting of wrongs is worth celebrating especially by companies in the construction industry.
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Appointments
Contractors Building and civil engineering contractor Dean & Dyball has promoted Adrian Dyball to managing director of construction. Barry Seeley and Peter Walton have been promoted to directors of Dover-based Barwick Construction. Alfred McAlpine Construction has made Andrew Nash business development manager for civil ...
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The Building top 50
If you care more about making money than turning it over, you ought to consider a career in housebuilding; if you want to be a contractor, maybe you should consider branching out into the services sector. That's the message in the latest survey of who's earning, selling and making what ...
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Location, location, location
A new green space for London capitalises on its Thames-side siting, its simple architectural forms allowing clutter-free views and acting as a magnet for housing developers.
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Helping hands
How MDA and Mansell are advising black firms in a new scheme to tackle racism in the industry
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Growth industry
The latest fad is to design yourself a garden, but Dan Pearson, one man at the forefront of this revolution, reckons construction has much to gain by building landscaping into the plans first, not last
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Getting IT together
There is plenty of talk in construction about reaping the benefits of information technology, but rather less action. Now QS Gardiner & Theobald has taken up the gauntlet in Reading.
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Strawberry fields forever
At the home of the world s most prestigious tennis tournament, spectators were too preoccupied with strawberries, cream and Tim Henman to notice they were in the midst of a massive redevelopment to secure its future as a world-class venue.
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Dwyer takes on Liverpool revival
The former Wimpey boss is returning to his home town to entice national developers to a city once synonymous with militant local politics and industrial strife.
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Counting the cost of Woolf
Recent changes in English court practice mean that the winner of an action should no longer assume it will be able to recover its costs.
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Improved circulation
A trailblazing day hospital in London provides production-line treatment for patients. The building design by Avanti manages to reconcile an efficient layout with gracious architecture.
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Cost model: Call centres
Call centres, the new information factories, are evolving as employers recognise that the working environment can affect business efficiency and staff turnover. Cost consultants Davis Langdon Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the specification and costs of call centres
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Sending the boys round
You go to court, you win, you collect your money if you live that long. A loser that will not pay can delay for years. But now there are some radical new ideas in the wind for getting at a loser's assets.
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Appointments
Contractors Derek Price has been made commercial director of MJC Construction. Housebuilders Thirlstone Homes has appointed Nick Mansfield managing director of its new Wokingham office. Keith Ireland has become managing director in the firm s Byfleet office. Consultants Malcolm Brummer , a ...
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Macob, Outwing – now A&D
On 23 June, Judge Wilcox passed down what could be a landmark ruling when he gave a summary judgment in favour of A&D, a subcontractor seeking enforcement of an adjudication decision.
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Who do you think you are?
A JCT provision allows firms to sue employers that ultimately pay them but with which they have no contract. Is this really a good idea?
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On the right track
How Bovis is using bar coding technology from the retail sector to manage the supply chain on an Egan demonstration project.
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Measuring for real
The key performance indicators could change the way clients select firms, but are they up to the job? Building asked Gardiner & Theobald to test them on real-life projects.
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John Hobson
The man charged with implementing Egan has a job-and-half on his hands. But with bosses John Prescott and Nick Raynsford respectively providing power and commitment, he believes he has the backing to do it