Articles by Date : January 20 2003 - January 26 2003

Advice line to stamp out rogue traders
Cowboy builders could be caught out when a government consumer advice line launches next year. more
(24 January 2003 16:42)

CCFC and Tesco unite as stadium future secured
Coventry City FC may be able to begin work on its new stadium within months after supermarket giant Tesco agreed to sign a massive deal with the.... more
(24 January 2003 15:12)

Government stats confirm CPA fears
Figures from the Office of National Statistics have confirmed Construction Products Association (CPA) fears, set out in its recent report Achievable.... more
(24 January 2003 12:20)

Shepherd wins £42m contract to build luxury docklands flats
Shepherd Construction has won a £42.4m contract to design and build 185 luxury apartments and penthouses at a site overlooking Canary Wharf in.... more
(24 January 2003 10:28)

Technical paper confirms brick sustainability
The sustainability of brick has been proved in a technical paper by Surrey University’s Department of Civil Engineering and Surrey County Council. more
(24 January 2003 10:28)

Irish workers protest over lack of health and safety
Two hundred building and construction workers have staged a protest in Limerick over health and safety issues, lack of proper insurance and alleged.... more
(23 January 2003 17:09)

Bovis shoots to the top
Bovis Lend Lease fired the final, decisive shot of 2002 - clinching the Ministry of Defence's £1bn Single Living Accommodation Modernisation contract.... more
(23 January 2003 17:06)

Wates looks for council works
Wates is targeting more council framework deals, its chief executive Struan Robertson told CJ. more
(23 January 2003 17:06)

Public sector keeps construction ticking
New Labour's promise to invest heavily in the renewal of Britain's creaking public infrastructure could not have come at a better time for.... more
(23 January 2003 17:05)

Speedy Hire to expand
Speedy Hire has announced ambitious plans to expand its network of depots across the UK with a target of 30 new green-field openings in 2003. more
(23 January 2003 17:04)

HSE investigates telehandlers
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is looking at the way telehandlers are used and could insist on the adoption of crane-type regulations in some.... more
(23 January 2003 17:03)

Van and truck sales to dip claims Iveco
Iveco expects both the van and the truck market to shrink this year - the latter by 10% to 46,700 units. At its annual conference, Iveco announced.... more
(23 January 2003 17:01)

Skanska UK set to recruit more staff
Skanska UK is expanding and is excluded from the Swedish construction group's gloomy announcement last week that it was making 500 job cuts and.... more
(23 January 2003 17:00)

'The group's black hole got bigger'
Semple was stymied by functional indigestion, McKie told CJ. He was amazed to discover that senior management didn't know their counterparts in other.... more
(23 January 2003 17:00)

Semple's major reshuffle
Scottish M&E contractor Semple has undergone a wholesale restructure with its entire board swept out. more
(23 January 2003 16:58)

Old tyres used in new roof studies
Russian scientists are using old tyres to cover roofs by grinding them into powder and mixing with common polyethylene. more
(23 January 2003 16:57)

Carillion's 'big bang' plan arrested
Carillion's plans for a "big bang" transformation of the group are believed to have been consigned to history. more
(23 January 2003 16:56)

Project managers and steel erectors join CSCS
Project managers and steel erectors are among nine further occupations to join the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS), which now has.... more
(23 January 2003 16:50)

Pace Timber Systems buys Llewellyn Timber
Llewellyn Timber Engineering is to be renamed Pace Timber Engineering following its acquisition by timber frame specialist Pace Timber Systems of.... more
(23 January 2003 16:49)

Two vie for Scots school PFI
Just two bidders are being interviewed for the latest in a series of private finance schools projects in Scotland. more
(23 January 2003 16:48)

Celcon's blocked takeover of Marley gets clarification
The competition minister Melanie Johnson has issued a clarification on H+H Celcon's now aborted attempt to buy Marley Building Materials (MBM). more
(23 January 2003 16:47)

Union man sacked after disciplinary
UCATT Midlands regional officer John Cunningham has been sacked following a union disciplinary hearing. more
(23 January 2003 16:45)

Latham distressed as institute founder axed
European Construction Institute (ECI) president Sir Michael Latham this week referred to what he described as the "distressing set of events".... more
(23 January 2003 16:44)

Potential bidders eye £70m Hackney regeneration work
Countryside in Partnership is hoping to clock up a second big-value urban regeneration deal for a north London council. more
(23 January 2003 16:39)

FMB bogus checklist
The Federation of Master Builders' (FMB) checklist for employing immigrants and asylum seekers warns employers to be aware of bogus self-employed.... more
(23 January 2003 16:38)

Amec/A McAlpine team quits M2 PFI road deal
Amec's rail divisions Amec Spie Rails has sealed a £200m track renewal contract from Network Rail in a joint venture with Cogifer TF of France. more
(23 January 2003 16:36)

Amec/Cogifer jv clinches £220m Network Rail job
Amec's rail divisions Amec Spie Rails has sealed a £200m track renewal contract from Network Rail in a joint venture with Cogifer TF of France. more
(23 January 2003 16:28)

Kirklees Council picks five for £130m partnering deal
Kirklees Metropolitan Council has lined up five firms to carry out housing upgrading work potentially worth £130m over four years. more
(23 January 2003 16:28)

Scots take a fresh look at adjudication
New methods to resolve contractual disputes are to be reviewed by the Scottish Executive following the publication of its adjudication consultation.... more
(23 January 2003 16:27)

Timber frames on the up
Statistics covering the performance of the timber frame industry in the UK have been released for the first time. more
(23 January 2003 16:26)

Wates wins 'no swearing' housing job in Blackburn
No music, swearing or wolf whistles will be allowed on any social housing sites in Blackburn and Darwen following a major clampdown by the client. more
(23 January 2003 16:26)

Roll-up pay excused by London tribunal
Reasons have been given for a central London employment tribunal ruling that allowed holiday pay to be included in a rolled-up hourly rate. more
(23 January 2003 16:20)

Inflated pay fails to attract new recruits
Inflation-busting pay increases in construction are failing to attract new recruits even though the industry continues to outshine every other UK.... more
(23 January 2003 16:19)

Sale of Safeway to benefit contractors
Contractors are guaranteed a trolley-load of work, whatever happens to supermarket chain Safeway. more
(23 January 2003 16:19)

Rushcliffe transfers housing stock to clear £21m repairs
Nottingham's Rushcliffe Borough Council will carry out the large-scale voluntary transfer of its housing stock this week in a bid to clear £21.3m in.... more
(23 January 2003 16:18)

Hull fatalities trial begins next month
The trial of the property company responsible for a Hull development where three building workers were killed in April 2000 will begin next month. more
(23 January 2003 16:17)

CrossRail faces rival
The Cross London Rail Link's (CLRL) CrossRail proposal could be scuppered by an alternative proposal for an east-west rail link for London that its.... more
(23 January 2003 16:16)

EC tunnel vision will provide civils windfall
Civils contractors are set for a major boost in workload from a new European Commission directive on road tunnel safety. more
(23 January 2003 16:15)

Southwark okays Elephant regeneration
The £1bn regeneration of London's Elephant and Castle is back on after Southwark Council's executive endorsed the first stage of its comprehensive.... more
(23 January 2003 16:12)

Wales names first early road contractor jv
A Thyssen/Walters/Atkins consortium has won the first early contractor involvement deal in Wales. The group will design and build the A479 Talgarth.... more
(23 January 2003 16:12)

Mixed response to off-the-peg schools
Plans to bring greater design standardisation to privately financed schools have drawn a mixed response. more
(23 January 2003 16:11)

Duo await Brum PFI NHS work
Just two groups are now sweating it out in the waiting room for one of the UK's biggest privately financed hospital deals. more
(23 January 2003 16:10)

Carillion vows to investigate code breaches
Carillion's labour supply divison SkyBlue would have no hesitation in carrying out a full investigation of the staff it supplies to the London.... more
(23 January 2003 16:10)

Atkins' QM report 'based on assumptions'
The Department of Trade & Industry has labelled CJ's front page story on Quality Mark (CJ 8 January) as "mischief-making". Alan Wheeler, national.... more
(23 January 2003 16:09)

Bovis makes it a double: a second successive CJ50 win
Bovis Lend Lease looked unlikely to repeat its CJ50 triumph of 2001 - until, at the eleventh hour, closing the MoD's £1bn SLAM programme enabled it.... more
(23 January 2003 16:09)

Design and build contracts
One of the main factors influencing clients in adopting design and build as a procurement route has been the assumption that a single source of.... more
(23 January 2003 16:07)

Two shortlists for NHS LIFT
The government's NHS LIFT initiative is continuing at breakneck speed, with another two shortlists from the second wave of projects announced this.... more
(23 January 2003 16:07)

Buiding fabric repair work - Multiassistance
Multiassistance is Europe's leading supplier of property repair services to the home insurance industry and in the UK we anticipate assigning over.... more
(23 January 2003 16:04)

Rainscreen cladding systems fixing - EH Smith
Sub-contractors required to fix Rainscreen Systems throughout the UK. more
(23 January 2003 15:56)

Carriageway maintenance contract - Torbay Council
Applications are invited from suitably experienced contractors wishing to be included on select lists of tenderers for undertaking the following.... more
(23 January 2003 15:53)