Articles by Date : March 11 1996 - March 17 1996
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marks out of 10 for government departments
(off-the-record analysis by five top contractors) more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
BCSA plans to replace ..retentions above œ500,000
The BCSA is investigating the introduction of a new scheme for
steelwork contracts whereby retentions would no longer be accepted
for contracts.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Jonathan Watts Department of National Heritage
I have been asked by the Secretary of State to reply on her behalf
to your letter of 23 January regarding the Government's
relationship.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Building Materials and Merchants
CompanySHARElast% market
PRICEweekchangeCap. (œm) RMC GROUP10421043-0.102603.48
BLUE CIRCLE INDUSTRIES350 359-2.512562.00
.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
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File Note: Housebuilders
Amec's Fairclough Homes and Bovis Homes will probably be acquired
by either Redrow, Beazer, Wilson Connolly or Bellway.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Keep lobbying your MP!
A host of companies and readers have written to their local Member
of Parliament in support of the Building for Britain campaign,
bringing to his.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Stage 1
To: David Evans MP
Dear Sir,
I thought you would be interested in this latest article from a
well respected journal indicating Labour's.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Stage 3 - DTI
To: David Evans MP
Dear Mr Evans,
Thank you for your letter to the President of the Board of Trade of
19 December enclosing one from your.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
J A Carter The Scottish Office
The Scottish Office is fortunate to be kept closely in touch with
the construction industry in Scotland by the Scottish Construction
Industry Group.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Persimmon suffers profits shortfall
more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Stage 2 - MP
To: R Trigg
Durkan Ltd
Dear Mr Trigg,
Further to our recent correspondence, I have now had a reply from
the Department of Trade and.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Indices
Companyindexvalue% changeValue% change
valueweek agoon weekyear agoon year UKBUILDING
1603.351597.770.351262.7326.9& CONSTUCTION
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(14 March 1996 00:00)
John Watts MP Department of Transport
The Department of Transport is keen to work with the construction
industry, and is well advanced with its implementation of the
Latham Report..... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Mrs B P Summers, Welsh Office
I understand that you wrote in similar terms to Mr Robert Jones,
Minister of State for Construction and Planning and Energy
Efficiency, from.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
James Arbuthnot Ministry of Defence
Thank you for your letter of 23 January to Michael Portillo on the
Contract With Construction.
I have seen Robert Jones's letter to you of 14.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Robert Jones MP Department of the Environment
The Government well appreciates the importance of construction to
economic activity (Developing Policy Initiatives [Point 1]),
representing as it.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
J A S Nickson Director of Building and Estate Management Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is not a major
sponsor of the construction industry. On average our programme of
new.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Stage 4 - DoE
To: David Evans MP
Dear David,
As you know your letter of 19 December has been passed to me to
comment on Contract Journal's 'Contract.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
POCHIN PROFITS UP
Pochin has made interim pretax profits of œ1.6m (œ1m) on
a turnover of œ22.9m (œ19.2m). All of its.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Bomb squad plan takes off with TBV
Construction industry moves to develop a multi-skilled team of
explosion experts following the Docklands bombing took another step
forward last.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
HOT LINE
Balfour Beatty Railway Engineering has signed a œ4.6m contract
with Oresund Tunnel Contractors for the design, supply and
construction of.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Building and Construction
CompanySHARE last% market
PRICEweekchangeCap. (œm) TAYLOR WOODROW145151
-3.97559.26
BERKELEY GROUP559564 -0.89529.67
WIMPEY.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
mobile hose replacement
Walsall-based Magpie Engineering and Bearings has recently set up a
mobile hydraulic hose replacement service at its.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Hewitt resigns from Vibroplant
Following Vibroplant's disposal of its American Hi-Lift business
comes the resignation of its chief operating officer Ron
Hewitt.
Hewitt had.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
MoD must show Trident papers
Tarmac and Amec subsidiary Matthew Hall are to be given access to
documents seized by Ministry of Defence police last month. The MoD
took documents.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Highways Agency can't pay for Newbury bypass
The Highways Agency cannot afford to pay for the œ100 million
Newbury bypass contract thanks to its present cash crisis, the
Agency admitted.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Westminster bridge delayed by one year
The completion of the œ11.7 million contract to strengthen
Westminster bridge will now be delayed by well over a year after
the discovery of.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Fujitsu may axe plans for plant
Sir Robert McAlpine is facing possible cancellation of the
œ816 million expansion to Fujitsu's compu- ter chip plant in
County Durham.
.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Overseas losses prompt Costain profits warning
Costain has run into major problems on overseas contracts for the
second year running.
On Monday the troubled contractor issued a profits.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Cat announces record 1995 profits
Caterpillar Overseas SA (COSA), the US giant's Geneva-based sales
organisation, announced its 1995 results for Europe showing sales
ahead of last.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Alfred McAlpine pulls out of HK
Alfred McAlpine is to pull out of two construction contracts on the
new Hong Kong airport at Chek Lap Kok. McAlpine is negotiating with
one of its.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Redrow rules out rushed bid talks
Housebuilder Redrow this week ruled out any immediate prospect of
it entering bid talks with any of its rivals because asking prices
are too high.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Firefighters urge partition review
Firefighters are demanding an urgent review of the Building
Regulations on polyurethane and polystyrene metal clad sandwich
panels this week. In.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Trafalgar to cut a quarter of workforce
Trafalgar House's regional contracting division is to make around
one quarter of its 1,100 staff redundant in attempt to cut costs.
Although final.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Zap form oils with Zemdrain
Dear Sir,
As the UK distributor of Zemdrain, the formwork liner from Dupont
mentioned in your article 'German water pollution scare' (CJ.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Ewe got it right!
Dear Sir,
Frank Wheeler (Letters CJ 8 February) is right in remembering
Sioban Coppinger's sculpture 'Man and Sheep on a Park Bench'.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Is it fact, opinion or belief?
Misrepresentation is an area of the law that construction
professionals tend to shy away from. Unless the matter can be
readily argued with.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Construction's œ5 billion winner
Despite Lottery operator Camelot's unpopular decision to scrap the
guarantee on the œ10 prize for getting three out of the six
numbers.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Safety rules delay staff deployment
Increasingly complex health and safety regulations mean contractors
and consultants are facing frustrating delays in deploying new
staff, it was.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Learning centre out to tender
Tenders have just gone out for a œ16 million learning
resources centre at the University of Hertfordshire following the
granting of planning.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Fairford Leys village gets final go-ahead
Plans for a new 2,000-home community on the outskirts of Aylesbury,
Bucks, have been given the final all-clear. The village-style
project, called.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Taywood wins its third health PFI
Taylor Woodrow has been selected as preferred contractor for a
œ70 million redevelopment of Gloucester Royal Hospital. The
scheme is the third.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Local authority 'boycotts' Redland superquarry talks
Redland Aggregates has run into problems with its biggest
superquarry project on the Isle of Lewis following an alleged
'boycott' on talks by the.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
'Subbie bashers' black listed
Specialists were urged this week to join forces to produce a
blacklist of main contractors who are perceived to indulge in
'subbie bashing'.
.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Rugby talks to Amec over œ100m upgrade
Rugby Cement is in talks with Amec and one other contractor over
œ100 million upgrading of its cement works at Rugby. The
massive upgrading.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
CITB revamp raises industry doubts
Contractors this week questioned the cost of a œ12.6 million
re-organisation of the Construction Industry Training Board as its
new chairman.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Amey confirms FM focus with BR unit acquisition
Amey has bought British Rail's Western Infrastructure Maintenance
Unit for œ15 million, sold by the Government as part of its
on-going.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Birse secures œ8m hospital extension
Birse has secured an œ8 million design and develop contract
from the Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust for the Phase
III extension.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Purac/Gleeson win œ10m D&B
Purac and MJ Gleeson have been awarded a œ10 million design
and build main contract for Elvington water treatment works, near
York, by.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)
Amey awarded œ10m upkeep
Amey Construction has been awarded a œ10.4 million contract by
the Highways Agency for the upkeep of part of the motorway and the
trunk road.... more
(14 March 1996 00:00)