All 好色先生TV articles in 2000 issue 42
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Features
Renaissance man
Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.
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Jennie Price's successor is named
The Construction Confederation has moved swiftly to appoint its director of public affairs, Stephen Ratcliffe, chief executive. He takes over on Monday, two weeks after Jennie Price's shock resignation. Ratcliffe, 45, who joined the confederation as director of public affairs in 1997 from the Department of Trade and Industry, said ...
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Indecent proposals
Ann Minogue's column on the new standard form of subcontract for use on government work the GC/Works Subcontract challenged the Constructors Liaison Group to a tempered debate. It begins here.
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Ken's half way house
Ken Livingstone has threatened to veto housing schemes unless half of the units are affordable. And he means it. But with the best will in the world, can housebuilders rise to the challenge?
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Glowing panes
The brief: design a glass wall for the Science Museum's Wellcome Wing to cast a blue glow from outside, in any conditions, with no moving parts. Was it even possible?
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Strong results at Gleeson
THE preliminary year-end results from MJ Gleeson show strong growth in profit and turnover, despite a drop in contracting margins and problems on a number of design-and-build contracts. Group turnover rose 17.3% to 拢349.6m in the year ended 30 June and pre-tax profit jumped 20.5% to 拢16.1m. The share price ...
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Feeling the pinch
Can you lift another builder's design or design features into your building? Yes, you can just so long as you copy the ideas and not the expression of those ideas.
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Maximum effort
The latest in this series for small and medium-sized firms explains how better financial management procedures can maximise your profit.
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E-cruitment
Chrissie Chadney, human resources director of Willmott Dixon, explains how she used the web to recruit IT trainees.
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Gleeds signs up for e-business
QS Gleeds has formed an alliance with 好色先生TV Information Warehouse, an application service provider, to create a European-wide web-based procurement and project management system. Gleeds will deploy the system in its offices throughout Europe, and promote web-based supply chains and management to clients as a means of saving money and ...
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Government set to dump planning gain system
November urban white paper is expected to recommend planning gain be replaced by fixed Impact fee.
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Comment
Prestige doesn't pay
First person An architect with a stunning building concept a great job, right? Wrong. British builders just won't take the risk.
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Miller picks up Crest sites
Edinburgh-based Miller Group has boosted its north of England housebuilding operations by acquiring two sites and two projects in progress from Crest Homes (Northern), part of Crest Nicholson. Harrogate-based Crest Homes (Northern) will close as soon as work on two further sites is completed. The 拢30m deal is Miller Group's ...
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'Listen to contractors and craftsmen,' urges Lipton
CABE chairman tells Design Build Foundation conference that clients need to respect specialists' expertise.
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'The most energy efficient building ever'
Bennetts Associates' 拢22m Wessex Water headquarters is such a triumph of green design that it's better than the BRE's idea of as good as it gets. 好色先生TV was given a sneak preview.
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City welcomes new broom at Wimpey
Sudden resignation of lifelong company man Dennis Brant makes way for former Rugby Group boss.
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HBF in last-ditch bid to lobby mayor
Housebuilders makes eleventh-hour attempt to persuade GLA housing taskforce to listen to its views on 50% social housing rules in London.
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Fairview renews buyout bid
Senior Executives at housebuilder Fairview has launched round two of its proposed management buyout, after retreating from the move in July. A team led by chairman Dennis Cope has told the remaining directors and Fairview's financial adviser, Close Brothers, that it is prepared to offer 170p a share, valuing the ...
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Bellway grief as City ignores results
North-eastern housebuilder Bellway has called on the City to raise its share-price rating after again turning in record results. Pre-tax profit rose 31% to 拢89.1m for the year to 31 July, with operating margins increasing from 14.5% to 15.1% and turnover going up 26% to 拢634m. But asked about Bellway's ...
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Top names do badly in first housebuilding survey
Homeowners slam Barratt, Beazer and Countryside but Redrow and Crest come top of the class.