Articles by Date : January 23 1995 - January 29 1995
Samsung to build in UK
Samsung Heavy Industries has taken over the former factory of
failed steel fabricator Octavius Atkinson where it will build
excavators and wheel.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
ZF push for transmission power
Confident about the future, German company ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a
leading light in the world of off-highway driveline components has
plenty to.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Lift off for union loaders
Fiona Kingston reports on the new range of wheel loaders to have come out of the Komatsu-Hanomag union more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
ADDED VERSATILITY - GET ATTACHED TO VERSATILITY
Attachments greatly increase the number of jobs the mini excavator can do more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
MINIS SQUEEZE IN TO FINISH THE JOB - APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY
The mini excavator is often the only machine able to undertake demanding and unusual construction jobs more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
POWERFUL MINIS DIGGING IN FOR UK MARKET SHARE - THE TEAMS THE PLAYERS
JCB, Kubota and Pel-Job dominate the thriving UK mini excavator scene, but other players are bidding to match their technical ingenuity. Ian.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
THREE-MONTHLY ANALYSIS (œm) December 1994
1(1) Trafalgar House249.62
2(2) Amec214.40
3(3) Bovis182.83
4(6) Amey137.70
5(5) John Laing110.70
6(17) Wimpey102.93
.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
MILLER 'WISES UP' TO MORECAMBE WATER QUALITY
Miller Construction has been tackling a major engineering project designed to improve the quality of North West Water's discharges around.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Tarmac should merge, says City
Broker NatWest Securities has called for Tarmac to merge with a
materials group, and drop plans to expand in contracting.
A tie up with.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
site pay deals update
Sector Start dateIncrease
Lifts1 Oct 952.5%
Electrical contracting3 Dec 953.3% Follows 9-month freeze
Environmental staff1 Jan 953.3%.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
JAN-DEC 1994 - MONTHLY ANALYSIS: SECTOR BY SECTOR (œm) December 1994
1(2) Amec846.739.30212.30208.93310.85105.35
2(1) John Laing725.9749.2192.42157.599.86416.89
3(5) Trafalgar.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
WHO'S WHO
Client:
North West Water
Design Engineer:
North West Water
Principal Contractor:
Miller Construction
Dewatering.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
DECEMBER - MONTHLY ANALYSIS: SECTOR BY SECTOR (œm) December 1994
1(3)Bovis112.23--0.85-111.38
2(18)Wimpey72.939.1654.26-2.207.31
3(15)John Mowlem36.102.804.0012.4010.006.90
4(9)Hall &.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
amec's year at the top
Amec has carried off the CJ40 League trophy for the first time. The
trophy is awarded by Contract Journal annually for outstanding
success in.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
M77 protestors take over crane
Anti-road protestors claim to have occupied a crane operated by
Wimpey at the Jarman Leisure complex in Hemel Hempstead in protest
at the firm's.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Amec lifts CJ40 trophy
Amec has won the CJ40 League trophy for the first time after
picking up œ847 million-worth of qualifying contracts during
1994, over œ100.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
DoE records drop in new orders
November 1994 orders for new infrastructure were 52% down on the
previous year and 36% lower than three months before, says the
Department of the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Girls invited onto sites
Employees across the industry are being urged to give their
daughters a special day out on 27 April - on their construction
sites.
The.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
IN BRIEF
CrossRail revival
CrossRail chiefs met Transport Secretary Brian Mawhinney this week
to try to revive the œ2.6 billion cross London rail.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Balfour Railway fined œ20,000
A Crown Court judge has fined a Balfour Beatty subsidiary
œ20,000 plus œ14,000 costs in connection with a serious
accident on the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Trafalgar wins œ130m abroad
Trafalgar House has won overseas contracts worth œ130 million.
In Hong Kong, Gammon Construction has œ47 million of road
widening and.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
œ800m of new schemes fail to allay PFI fears
Contractors and the Chancellor remain at loggerheads over the
success of the Government's private finance initiative despite Ken
Clarke's rallying.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Ugly features
If it was possible to libel an industry or a type of worker, then
the construction world could be making even more use of the legal
system by.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Housing cutbacks squeeze builders
Contractors working in social housing are feeling the squeeze as
the draconian cuts in the Government's social housing programme
begin to take.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
THERE MAY BE TROUBLE AHEAD
The damage wreaked by last November's Budget is clear for all to
see in this week's building trade surveys. Both the BEC and the FMB
figures for.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Latham's bag of tricks
Somebody called Latham contacted Backbites last week asking us to
publish a call for construction workers to start doing something
stupid. And they.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Bid for Holzmann to hit CTRL teams
The threatened takeover of German construction giant Philip
Holzmann by Hochtief could upset the bidding for the Channel Tunnel
Rail Link as the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
101 uses for a JCB. Number 12: Giraffe feeder
Whipsnade Wild Animal Park was given a welcome lift when JCB
replaced the park's old bucket with a new one to help with those
tricky jobs around.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
GMB seeks new shop
A new national agreement covering pay and conditions for 15,000
woodworking operatives is being sought by the GMB as part of a
campaign by the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
UK prices set to rise after Kobe
The earthquake disaster at Kobe in Japan is likely to have a
dramatic effect on construction material prices in the UK.
Worse affected will be.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Councils oppose upgrade to A1
Bedfordshire County Council is up in arms about Highways Agency
proposals to build a œ173 million scheme to upgrade the Al to
motorway.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
British Land deal saves Stanhope
Stanhope - one of the biggest and most progressive developers of
the 1980s - has been saved from financial collapse by a rescue
takeover deal.
.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
RIBA restarts fee scales for members
The Royal Institute of British Architects has again restarted
issuing recommended fee scales for its members following a ruling
from the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Oxfordshire County Council
In an article in Contract Journal of 15 December ('Civils demand
end to council bid bias') we stated that a dossier of evidence had
been compiled.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Banks set to pull plug next year
Medium-sized contractors face a fatal credit squeeze as banks
finally give up on the weaker end of the construction sector, it
was predicted this.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
New building arm at Birse
Birse has launched a reorganisation of its construction operations
to boost its profile in the building and water engineering
sectors.
It.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Amec/McAlpine tipped for M65
An Amec/Alfred McAlpine joint venture is being tipped to win the
œ60 million plus, second phase of the M65 Blackburn southern
bypass.
.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Heathrow collapse put at œ50 million
The cost of repair work at the collapsed Heathrow Express tunnel is
being put as high as œ50 million by top tunnelling
experts.
Dr.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Donelon breaks through
Bolton-based contractor JF Donelon has broken through on its 3.3km
drive for Anglian Water's œ15 million 'Clearwater 95 Project'
at.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Building upturn stalls
Hopes of a sustained upturn in building work have met with a severe
setback over the past three months with smaller firms bearing the
brunt of a.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
IN BRIEF
Information leaflets
The HSE has published two new information leaflets summarising
legal requirements and offering advice on general workplace.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Tarmac takes Derby bypass job
Tarmac has won the contract to build the Derby southern bypass with
a bid of œ110 million - œ22 million over the official
estimate of.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
MOVES
n Mark Pogson has joined Morrison Developments - part of the
Morrison Construction Group - as development manager and will
head-up a new office in.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
IN BRIEF
Homes for South Africa
The National House-Building Council is helping with the
introduction of a new homes warranty scheme in South Africa.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Tarmac half way through M6
Tarmac is more than half way through its massive œ52 million
contract to widen nearly 10km of the M6 in the North West. Pictured
is the.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Shepherd drawn to art
Construction company Shepherd has selected the work of artist
Jennifer Godlieb to be displayed on the walls of its London office.
The six.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Back in time at Smithfield
The œ60 million modernisation of Smithfield market was given a
timely boost when the market's 125-year-old clock was returned to
position.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
Boys makes way for Cockburn
Jim Cockburn has been appointed managing director of John Laing
International.
He will report to Bruce Boys who has relinquished the title of.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
We think the CIOB should be told...
The CIOB, it seems these days, likes to live dangerously. Its guest
speaker at 14 February's Guildhall annual dinner is Ian Hislop,
editor of.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)
'No noise' on Tarmac site
Tarmac's œ33 million contract to double the size of the
University of Westminster's Harrow campus at Northwick Park is
taking shape. The.... more
(26 January 1995 00:00)