All ɫTV articles in 2004 issue 47 – Page 3

  • Features

    Whose deal is it?

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    When it comes to training and skills, the industry has bet the house on the success of CSCS cards. Now a report has revealed that the scheme is hobbled by arguments over who controls it and whether it is working.

  • Comment

    Glory days

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Our building sites are bloodless descendants of the sites of the roaring 50s, when men were men, lavatories were buckets and passers-by were fair game

  • Comment

    Learning curve

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Two brief points in connection with your article on my “re-education” (12 November, page 44).

  • ɫTV

    Wales wins triple crown

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The Wales Millennium Centre facing Cardiff Bay will be officially opened this Sunday by the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles. The £106m performing arts centre is the first to be built in Wales for more than 50 years and is the UK’s final lottery-funded Millennium Project. The design by ...

  • Lenard: Recommendations soon
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    Regeneration taskforce created

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Leading industry figures have set up an infrastructure taskforce to advise the government on its housing regeneration programmes.

  • ɫTV

    Construction must pay for training too, says government

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The government this week warned that it would only provide money for an overhaul of the industry’s training system if construction leaders chipped in as well.

  • Roy Adams
    ɫTV

    O’Rourke poaches ex-BDP chief executive

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Laing O’Rourke has made a surprise appointment from architect ɫTV Design Partnership to bolster its senior management team,

  • ɫTV

    Sharewatch: A change of league

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    After much speculation, Amec last week hung up its boots in the construction sector and started this week as a quoted support services company.

  • ɫTV

    HSE calls for harsher safety fines

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The HSE has asked for tougher penalties for safety breaches to cut accident rates in construction

  • Icon for Brighton
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    Icon for Brighton

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Architect Allies and Morrison will shortly be submitting a planning application on behalf of developer Beetham for a 42-storey residential tower in New England Square, adjacent to Brighton station.

  • Comment

    Why bother?

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    In response to your recent editorial about encouraging young women into the construction industry I must ask, why?

  • ɫTV

    Boost for Paddington PFI

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The head of Westminster council has given his backing to the troubled £800m PFI hospital planned for Paddington in west London.

  • Student body
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    Student body

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    This campus for South East Essex College of Arts and Technology, designed by architect KSS, is now open to students.

  • Bob Holt
    Features

    Mr Holt & Mr Black

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The chap on the left is the grand wizard who created Mears, the firm that never stops growing. The one on the right has six months to learn how to cast the same spell.

  • ɫTV

    Queen’s speech heralds corporate manslaughter bill

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Government announces bill that could result in prison for directors – but not in this session of parliament

  • ɫTV

    Sloan quits fast-growing contractor Benson

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The managing director of private contractor Benson has left six years after he led a management buy-in at the firm.

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Let’s be Belgian

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Our system of project insurance wastes about £1bn a year, and invariably leads to the courts. Why can’t we have project-based insurance, as they do on the Continent?

  • ɫTV

    Iraqi officials try to attract more British contractors

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Iraqi officials stepped up the drive to attract British firms to the region with a high-profile procurement conference this week, amid fears that security risks are deterring bids for contracts.

  • Comment

    Apprenticeships are thriving

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    May I congratulate your magazine for focusing on, over the past few issues, the immensely important topic of vocational training.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week