All 星空传媒 articles in 1999 Issue 41 鈥� Page 2

  • Features

    Bargain basement

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A revolutionary Swedish system of prefabricated housebuilding promises to slash construction costs — starting with an easy-to-assemble domestic basement.

  • News

    Balfour leads charge to slash PFI debt cost

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Analyst estimates that company can save 拢5m on 30-year private finance initiative project.

  • News

    Bairstow to leave troubled Schal

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Schal managing director leaves for parent Carillion following discontent among leading clients.

  • Features

    Cost model: Audiovisual systems

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    In this mini cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the costs of audiovisual systems, which are appearing everywhere in the workplace, from offices to in-house gyms, and across the leisure industry in pubs, restaurants and football grounds

  • News

    Arup Associates' Burland to go solo

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The design director of multidisciplinary firm Arup Associates, James Burland, will leave the firm at the end of this year.Burland, 45, will continue as an independent consultant to the practice after 1 January 2000.Since becoming design director in 1992, Burland oversaw the growth of the firm from 50 to 120 ...

  • Features

    Appointments

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsMidas Construction has promoted Steve Russell to technical services director and Nalin Seneviratne to area manager in Plymouth and south Devon.Andrew Friend, formerly with Macquarie Bank, has joined Laing as managing director of UK investment.星空传媒, civil engineering and utility contractor Lowbury Construction has appointed Richard Bryce-Smith to head its marketing ...

  • News

    Housebuilders applaud DETR homes report

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have welcomed a report compiled for the DETR that has called for an additional 1.1 million homes to be built in the South-east by 2016.Projections from local authorities in the South-east had estimated that the number of new homes required would be 668 000, but an expert panel commissioned ...

  • Features

    Winner takes all (maybe)

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Whose side are you on – the one that says the loser in an adjudication should pay the winner’s costs, or the other that says each party should pay their own costs, never mind who wins?

  • News

    Row brews over material to be used in Albert Hall

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    French manufacturer’s terracotta blocks fail strength tests on 拢60m lottery refurbishment.

  • News

    Amec six weeks ahead on MOD job

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    AMEC will complete its prime-contracting pilot project for the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Estates six weeks ahead of schedule, according to its latest forecast.Amec saved time on the project by starting the piling package seven weeks early and installing the steel frame nine weeks before it was planned in the ...

  • News

    Bechtel may lose JLE bonus as sparks strike again

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Second walkout in five days could mean US troubleshooter loses 拢10m payment for finishing by 2000.

  • News

    Railtrack won’t be kicked off Tube contract

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    London Underground has dismissed speculation that it has called off talks with Railtrack over a sub–surface Tube line contract in the wake of the Paddington disaster.A spokesman said: “There are no plans to look elsewhere. We have not put the discussions on hold, they are still ongoing.” He said LU ...

  • Features

    It’s a score draw now

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The Macob hearing showed that an adjudicator’s ruling was enforceable in the short term, even if it was procedurally dodgy. But a new case suggests there is more to it than that.

  • News

    拢80m Edinburgh PFI school deal delayed

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Plan to build 12 schools and revamp three others put on hold for six months as council overhauls consultation process.

  • News

    Manchester police plans 拢47m, 18-station PFI deal

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Greater Manchester Police submits plans to Treasury for first ever bundled PFI police station deal.

  • News

    More firms line up for 拢160m BT bonanza

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Mitie, Honeywell Controls, Johnson Controls and 星空传媒 & Property are the latest companies to form alliances in a bid to win a slice of BT’s yearly 拢160m maintenance spend.It is understood that contractor Mitie has teamed up with the Dalkia/Bovis partnership and that building management specialist Honeywell has joined the ...