More news – Page 4054
-
Comment
A question of justification
Are Britain's bosses overpaid? This question has been dominating the City pages over the past few months, particularly after the £22m severance deal struck by Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
-
NewsPension crisis deepens as firms shut schemes to existing staff
Rok and Alfred McAlpine close final salary schemes and predict that other companies are about to follow suit.
-
NewsNorman's new place
Foster and Partners has designed its first residential development for the Liverpool housing developer, Urban Splash. The scheme, for 292 apartments in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is also Urban Splash's first scheme outside a city centre. Foster's design has a pair of linked seven-storey blocks that project out over the Bridgewater ...
-
News
Mowlem wins fight for £4bn PFI barracks
The £4bn PFI project to build and maintain the Allenby and Connaught army barracks has been won by a joint venture between Mowlem and the American contractor Kellogg Brown & Root
-
News
Laing O'Rourke moves to calm T5 bonuses row
Laing O'Rourke is to meet national union leaders next week to discuss industrial unrest on the Heathrow Terminal 5 project.
-
News
Scots slam EMBT over fees
Members of the Scottish parliament have criticised Barcelona architect EMBT for failing to respond to its proposed cap on the fees of consultants for the building.
-
NewsCarillion axes management layer after profit warning
Chief executive sets in motion major restructuring after announcing £10m loss on Nottingham tram project.
-
News
Prefabricated embassy goes up in Iraq
British embassy staff in Iraq are to be given a new home made from flat-pack lightweight materials. Work began three weeks ago and is due to be completed in September.
-
News
Six sign £300m council framework
Balfour Beatty and Wates are among six contractors that have signed a £300m framework agreement with Hampshire council to provide high-value construction work
-
News
Scaffolders cut cheap insurance deal
The National Access and Scaffolding Confederation has negotiated an insurance deal with broker the Benfield Group.
-
NewsLord Liverpool
Work has begun on the £2.2m extension to the University of Liverpool sports centre, designed by architect Austin-Smith:Lord. The extension includes a 360 m2 fitness suite and a four-court sports hall with a main entrance and reception area. The extension will be enclosed by a catenary roof structure. The project ...
-
NewsHail Mary
A £1.3m refurbishment of the grade II*-listed St Mary's church in Ealing, west London, was completed last month. The aim was to recreate the church's appearance after it was remodelled by Victorian architect SS Teulon. He gave it Moorish arches in striped brickwork, a cast-iron column decorated with ...
-
News
Prescott faces challenge to greenfield housing policy
Crucial battle in offing over Essex council's proposed cancellation of planned residential development.
-
News
Six line up for mother of all garden makeovers
Six international landscape architects this week unveiled designs for the £2m restyling of the Pirelli Gardens at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
-
NewsRIBA calls for role in listing process
The RIBA has asked the government to allow it to play a part in the listing of modern buildings
-
NewsSearch on for executives to oversee Thames Gateway
Chairs for two key urban development corporations to receive £45,000 each for two-day week.
-
NewsGehry tipped to win Hove leisure centre
A scheme by the Canadian architect Frank Gehry looks increasingly likely to win the contract to redevelop the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove.
-
News
CPS to review bridge case
The Crown Prosecution Service is to consider whether to prosecute directors of the contractors involved in the Avonmouth bridge collapse in 1999, in which four workers died.
-
News
MoD shortlists three for South-east prime contract
Defence Estates has shortlisted three consortiums for the Ministry of Defence's £460m regional prime contract for the South-east.
-
NewsYou've not seen owt like it
Alsop Architects vision of the deprived Yorkshire town of Barnsley rebranded as a surreal Tuscan hill village has taken shape with the release of these possible designs.