Articles by Date : January 29 1996 - February 04 1996
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File Note: Berkeley Group
City darling the Berkeley Group has capitalised on its reputation
for sound business decisions by launching a two for.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Road maintenance on video
An instructional video illustrating the latest developments in road
maintenance has been launched by the Road Surface Dressing
Association. Topics.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
new md at belle
Belle Engineering has a new managing director. Lloyd Williams takes
over from Ron Blackhurst who becomes chairman following.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Building Materials and Merchants
CompanySHARElast% market
PRICEweekchangeCap. (œm)
BLUE CIRCLE INDUSTRIES335350-4.292452.20
RMC GROUP9769552.202438.57
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(01 February 1996 00:00)
Syphon prepares for completion
The first tunnel breakthrough on the œ38 million El Salaam
Syphon project in Egypt marks an important stage in the scheme to
provide water for.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Balfour awarded œ32m BASF plant
Balfour Beatty Projects & Engineering has been awarded a
œ32 million turnkey contract by National Power to design,
construct, install and.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
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SIMPLE AND STURDY
Signmate from Roadtex is one of those brilliantly simple ideas you
wish you'd thought of yourself. Made from recycled tyres,.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Hirex pulls it off in new NEC home
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(01 February 1996 00:00)
Terex makes it for a third time
Terex has launched a third new rigid dump truck. The new
55t-capacity 3360 gives Terex a trio of new products in just 10
months.
Power comes.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Indices
UKBUILDING1511.041494.851.081346.2112.24& CONSTRUCTION
UKBUILDING731.44718.101.86702.074.18MATERIALS
FTSE.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
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MoreLaunches
The unique atmosphere of the UK's No 1 construction show
14/15/16 May
The National Event.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
New reach for no-dig technology
B-Trac equipment, UK dealer for no-dig specialist Vermeer, launched
the US firm's new range of directional drilling Navigator machines
last week. .... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Market overvalues Laing, says broker
John Laing, the most consistently successful contractor of the
early 1990s, is overvalued by the stock market, according to broker
NatWest.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Art deco office block gets new face
Badly damaged faience block cladding on a Grade ll-listed art deco
office block in Stockton-on-Tees has been restored in a
œ132,000 programme.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
PIT PROPERTY SALE
Over 250 properties in north west England are being sold off by
British Coal, bringing to an end its role as one of the.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
NAO REPORT ON PSA SALE
As revealed in CJ last week, the National Audit Office has
criticised the sale of the PSA Building Management to the.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
HOT LINE
Wates Construction has a œ6.5m contract to extend and
refurbish the existing William Morrison supermarket at Darlington
in County Durham.
.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Building and Construction
CompanySHARE last% market
PRICEweekchangeCap. (œm) GEORGE WIMPEY1451422.11523.59
TAYLOR WOODROW1331265.56512.98
BEAZER.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
INBRIEF
LIGHT OF MY LIFE
Industry's suppression of the everlasting light bulb is a staple of
bar room talk the world over. Now Solalight has launched.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
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HIREX looked to be off to a flying start in its new Birmingham home
last week. The aisles were busy when CJ visited on opening
day.
Worthy of.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Industry body leads BRE bid
The Construction Industry Council has agreed to lead an industry
bid to take over the Building Research Establishment to form part
of a National.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Beazer heart set on Bovis
Beazer has emerged as front runner to buy 2,600-units-a-year
housebuilder Bovis Homes which has been put on the market by parent
company P&O as.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
CIB: no simple solution for 30% cost savings
The Construction Industry Board claims that 'there is no simple
solution' to achieving Sir Michael Latham's aim of cutting
construction-related.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
DBFOs still too complex
risks allocated to contractors on the first tranche of DBFOs may be
unsustainable, a delegation of leading civils contractors warned
Transport.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Cowboys still on the take
Cowboy builders continue to give construction a bad name partly
because home owners and the Government allow them to, according to
a new report for.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Spring start for œ100m lab
Work could start in the spring on a œ100 million R&D
facility at Sellafield in West Cumbria. British Nuclear Fuels
announced this week.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Latham 30% cost target 'achievable'
Reform of compulsory competitive tendering, changes to accounting
principles, mandatory life cycle costing on Government projects and
a.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Dire building market forces Amec rethink
Amec is to merge its building and design and management businesses
because of the dire state of the building market, it emerged this
week.
The.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Haunted workers flee Wem site
Two construction workers recently evacuated the site of a
fire-gutted town hall in the Midlands after swearing they had seen
a ghost.
The.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
DoT denies choosing CTRL contract winner
Reports that the œ3 billion Channel Tunnel Rail Link contract
has been clinched by the consortium London and Continental Railways
were denied.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Engineers warn of training cuts
Major cuts in training may take place next year if the economic
outlook does not improve, the head of the Engineering Construction
Industry.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Bovis firms lead the way with US work
Bovis company, McDevitt Street Bovis, has been chosen to lead the
construction of the œ190 million Tennessee Stadium project in
Nashville, US..... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
œ9.5m bypass and œ8m water stations for Birse
Birse has picked up two contracts worth a total of œ17.5
million.
Birse Construction has a œ9.5 million contract to construct
the.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
HA advertises axed road jobs
The Highways Agency has readvertised four road schemes - just two
weeks after axing them from the 1995-96 roads programme.
A spokesman for the.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Steel contractors to end retentions - by david nunn
Major steelwork contractors are close to refusing to allow
retention money to be deducted from their bills in future.
It follows a survey by.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Camp evictions will delay A64
The controversial œ70 million A64 Newbury Bypass faces 'months
of delay' as the Highways Agency tries to evict activists from the
site, warned.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Industry profits hit slump
Construction is suffering a slump in profitability as the weakness
of the economic recovery undermines performance. And the uncertain
nature of the.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Laing wins second PFI health project
Laing has bagged its second PFI healthcare project in as many
weeks, clinching a œ50 million contract to add a new wing to
St James's.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Innisfree fund set to back PFI
Nearly three years after the Government first asked the City to
create an infrastructure fund to back its Private Finance
Initiative, a fund.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Ammonia clear-up for Birwelco
The newly formed company OTV Birwelco has raked in a sizeable chunk
of North West Water's œ100 million Davyhulme clean up project,
by securing.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
TH alternative design wins A12/M11
Cementation Piling and Foundations, part of Trafalgar House, has
been awarded a œ20 million piling contract in joint venture
with Bachy as.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Where do our staff stand?
Dear Sir,
With reference to your article 'Inland Revenue clamps down on
subcontractor tax status' (CJ 16 November 1995). We would be
obliged.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Bristol boss jailed for breaching asbestos law
A director of a Bristol contractor this week became the first
company boss to be immediately jailed after being prosecuted by the
HSE for breaking.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Trafalgar pushes Far East
Trafalgar House has taken another step towards exploit the booming
far eastern construction market.
Richard Lees Steel Decking, a Trafalgar.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Gloomy outlook for civils
The outlook for civils contracting in the UK remains exceptionally
gloomy, according to the latest state of trade survey by the
Federation of Civil.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Civils slam cement price hike
Civils contractors slammed Blue Circle Cement's decision to hike
its cement prices by œ2.80 a tonne this week.
The Federation of Civil.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Buggy is a smooth operator
On trial in the UK for the first time, the SB2500 Shuttle Buggy - a
material transfer vehicle from US manufacturer Roadtec - is set to
be a common.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
DoE promotes timber industry
A strategy document aimed at developing timber products that meet
building industry needs has been launched by the Department of the
Environment.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Receivers called as Blatcon goes to the wall
West country precast heavy concrete products producer Blatcon has
called in the receivers.
The firm specialises in castings for wall and floor.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)
Work on offer at NI Water Exec
A number of contracts are to be placed by Northern Ireland Water
Executive for work at Dunore Point water treatment works near
Antrim.
They.... more
(01 February 1996 00:00)