More news – Page 4228
-
News
Citex cuts seven jobs at London office
Multidisciplinary consultant Citex has cut seven jobs at its project services office in central London.
-
News
Quality mark gets go-ahead
Construction minister Brian Wilson announced on Tuesday that the government’s anti-cowboy scheme would be extended across the county.
-
News
Carillion bids to work for rivals on Tube PPPs
Carillion is aiming to make up for its consortium’s failure to win Tube work by becoming a subcontractor for successful rivals Metronet and Tubelines.
-
News
Abbey Holford Rowe forms global alliance
UK architect Abbey Holford Rowe has formed a global alliance with Australian practice Peddle Thorp and Asian architect LPT.
-
News
Glenn Howells wins Birmingham masterplan
Glenn Howells Architects has won a competition to masterplan a key regeneration project in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
-
News
Contracts
Kingswood wins V&A refurbKent-based contractor Kingswood Construction has landed 13 contracts worth £4.25m, including fit-out and refurbishment projects for the Victoria & Albert Museum and Scottish Widows.Amey lands £90m road dealSupport specialists group Amey and its partner Mouchel have won a £90m contract from the Highways Agency to service roads ...
-
News
Top architects get bid invite
lEADING architectural practices Foster and Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox have been invited to bid for the third phase of the £700m Paddington Central mixed-use scheme in London.
-
News
Tolson appointed senior partner at Fenwick
law firm Fenwick Elliott has selected Building columnist Simon Tolson as a senior partner.
-
NewsShowing up the Ritz
Showing up the Ritz: Contractor ITC Concept has completed a £1m contract on the Audi exhibition and conference centre opposite the Ritz in Piccadilly, central London. The centre includes a curved glazed multimedia wall that passes through a stairwell from the ground floor to the basement. The centre has been ...
-
FeaturesDrop-in centre
HLM Architects' office building inserted into London's Arundel Great Court has been ingeniously designed to serve as the hub of the complex – without being glaringly obvious
-
News
Rok profit surges after restructuring
Garvis Snook’s restructuring of Exeter-based Rok Group has led to a rise in pre-tax profit from £98,000 in 2000 to £3.8m last year. Turnover rose 36% from £92m to £125m.
-
News
Bovis Homes launches northern division
Bovis Homes has started a northern division with an office in Wilmslow, Cheshire, to cover the north-west and north-east of England.
-
FeaturesTony Pidgley
The king of British housebuilding talks to Phil Clark about architecture, the great British housebuilder and – after the departure of Tony Jr from Berkeley– why he ain't going anywhere yet.
-
Comment
How far we've come
Constructing the Team suggested about 50 ways to modernise the construction industry. Eight years on, most of these have been implemented
-
FeaturesEscape from the pod people
Two young architects discovered that prefab is being taken over by developers who think it means putting toilet pods everywhere – and vowed to fight back … Martin Spring found out how they're doing
-
FeaturesThe Wright way
This Preston contractor gives all profit left after investment to charity, organises free holidays for deprived kids and says it only exists for the benefit of its staff. Can this really be a recipe for success? Matthew Richards finds out.
-
Features
Union of dull Jacks
Brits may be the hardest workers in Europe, but the all-work-and-no-play culture doesn't make us happy or productive. And, as the results of the Building/DTI work–life balance survey suggest, a more relaxed workforce may mean a healthier balance sheet.
-
Features
Mind the gaps
In the struggle to recruit and retain good staff, we should all be a bit more thoughtful …