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UCATT calls for direct employment rules
UCATT general secretary George Brumwell this week renewed his call for workers on government contracts to be directly employed.
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NewsQuay elements
Cesar Pelli & Associates and Alsop Architects have won a competition to design the North Quay development for the Canary Wharf Group. The proposed scheme in London Docklands provides more than 220,000 m2 of office and retail space in two towers and one mid-rise central building. The towers at ...
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NewsUrban illusion
Priestman Architects has won planning permission for a glass apartment building on a corner site near Battersea Park, south London. The six-storey 1700 m2 building will be faced in an irregular combination of clear-glass and colour-coated panels giving a varying texture of reflections, lightness and solidity. Sapcote is the ...
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NewsLibeskind: Still on for V&A
Daniel Libeskind promised to continue working on his £26m Spiral extension for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, despite winning the World Trade Centre competition.
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NewsThe beautiful ground
Architect HOK unveiled the first scale model of the £757m Wembley scheme at the MIPIM property exhibition in Cannes this week. The firm, which is working on the scheme with Foster and Partners, said the 90,000-seat stadium would be the largest of its type in the world. The launch came ...
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Interior and Arup star in 'best firms' survey
Contractor Interior and consulting engineer Arup head a list of eight construction firms named in a leading survey of good employers.
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A fine art
The appellant, Yorkshire Sheeting, had been retained as a subcontractor by Totty Building Services to deal with the sheeting on the roof at commercial premises at Foss Island Road, York. The works contemplated included the replacement of the metal top sheets on the roof and replacement of existing roof lights. ...
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Features
Arup and Interior star in 'best employers' survey
Contractor Interior and consulting engineer Arup head a list of eight construction firms named in a leading survey of good employers.Interior, which came 21st in The Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For survey, was praised for its commitment to personal career development and because the management had obtained ...
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Features
UCATT calls for direct employment rules
UCATT general secretary George Brumwell this week renewed his call for workers on government contracts to be directly employed.Brumwell made the suggestion as part of the consultation process accompanying a review of the Construction Industry Scheme, the Inland Revenue’s system for collecting tax from the construction industry.He said the government ...
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Macob Construction promotes two key staff to board
Cardiff contractor Macob Construction has made two employees executive directors.Project manager Nigel Barnes has been promoted to group managing director and quantity surveyor Cathy Bousie will become group commercial director.Macob chairman John Roberts said Barnes had extensive experience of the industry and was capable of tackling prestigious projects in the ...
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Higgs review set to trigger wholesale board changes
Large number of construction firms will be in breach of upcoming corporate governance guidelines.
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New chief gives Schal a shake-up
Carillion arm Schal has restructured following a strategy review led by managing director Terry Chapman, writes Phil Clark.The firm, best known for high-profile construction management projects such as the Royal Opera House and Tate Modern, has now been split into five divisions (see box below).Chapman, who officially became managing director ...
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FeaturesTaming the fat cats
To avoid Enron and WorldCom-style catastrophes, the Higgs report has set out rules intended to keep the portly pusses on company boards in line. But, in an industry used to mucking in and doubling up, will it ever succeed?
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FeaturesGreat lengths
Ireland has just splashed out on an extraordinary national swimming complex. Extraordinary partly because no public money will be spent on running it – which meant the designers had to create a unique building that could pay its own way.
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Are we having fun yet?
Rude audiences, ruder speakers, potential punch-ups and other ingredients of the annual dinner provide the fodder for the first of our columns on industry events
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FeaturesHow bad can it be?
Six days after Tony Pidgley Jr made a bold £1bn bid for his father's Berkeley Group, his personal and professional reputations took a battering. We report on how it went so wrong
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NewsHiggs review set to trigger wholesale board changes
Large number of construction firms will be in breach of upcoming corporate governance guidelines.
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David Bucknall heads up Citex management buyout
David Bucknall returns to lead management buyout of Citex days after it goes into administration.