All ɫTV articles in 2005 issue 44 – Page 2

  • ɫTV

    Costain monitors presence in Iran amid political unrest

    2005-11-04T09:18:00Z

    Contractor ‘monitoring the situation’ on £950m gas project, as tensions mount between Tehran and the West.

  • ɫTV

    Davis Langdon results reveal senior partner’s pay

    2005-11-04T09:17:00Z

    In an unprecedented move for a consultant, Rob Smith’s £507,000 salary is disclosed – along with 37% profit

  • Mowlem
    ɫTV

    Key Mowlem boss quits as takeover rumours hot up

    2005-11-04T09:03:00Z

    European firms said to be in the running for contractor as Liming jumps ship for Carillion.

  • Comment

    What’s it worth?

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The claimants were trustees of a settlement. They owned a property comprising a number of shops and flats. The primary purpose of the trust was to provide income rather than capital growth.The claimants sought to obtain vacant possession of the individual flats with a view to re-letting them on short-term ...

  • Michael Conroy Harris
    Comment

    Suit yourself

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The JCT has embraced the digital age with a service promising quick, clean documents that are precisely tailored to the job they cover

  • ɫTV

    They shoot, they SCORE

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Architect Penoyre & Prasad has revealed this image of an integrated sports, health and community centre, which opened last week.

  • Reform the regs logo
    Features

    The response

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    From Jersey to Carlisle, readers have been sending in their support for ɫTV’s Reform the Regs campaign. Backing has come from across the industry. Here, we publish a selection of readers’ letters.

  • Comment

    The race still running

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Your article “Four housebuilders pull out of ‘onerous’ grant process” (28 October, page 22) took a somewhat sensational line and missed at least some of the point as a result. Opening bidding to private developers for the first time was always going to be about testing the market. We expected ...

  • A bad example of ladder craft.
    Comment

    Tales from the pit

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Our thanks to George Fordyce, head of engineering policy at the National Home ɫTV Council, for sharing this fine example of ladder craft.

  • Brighton and Hove albion FC
    ɫTV

    Seagulls’ new roost

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Architect KSS Design Group has unveiled this image of the long-awaited new stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion FC.

  • James Sommerville
    ɫTV

    Never mind the quality . . .

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    If cars had as many faults as houses there would be uproar, says James Sommerville

  • Open mike
    Comment

    Open Mike: Wrong turnings

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    David Trench, the project director on the Millennium Dome, knows from experience what happens when people stray too far from a project’s initial raison d’être

  • Tarek Merlin
    Comment

    Look to the skies

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    We need to forget about cheap houses and luxury riverside apartments and start building high quality high rise, says the latest column from our graduate panel

  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
    Comment

    Legalaid

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    This month our legal experts tackle some of the problems arising at a fire station where work was carried out to remove abestos in the 1980s. Who is responsible for doing the job properly now? And who is liable if someone falls ill?

  • Jon Nelson (left) and Tim Boucher
    Features

    Just the job: RICS in Norfolk

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Jon Nelson and Tim Boucher talk about setting up a network for young RICS members in Norfolk

  • The North-west’s housing boom
    ɫTV

    North-west scraps housing squeeze

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Planners in the North-west have scrapped a curb on housebuilding that has been stalling many developments.

  • The £200m Olympic contract for putting all the power lines in the lower Lea Valley underground has already been let
    Features

    Hot topic: Impact of oil prices

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Following on from last week’s energy issue, Davis Langdon examines the impact of oil prices – and therefore petrol prices and transport costs – going through the roof

  • Comment

    Hold your horses

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    It was interesting to note Christopher Linnett’s comments on the increasingly short periods of time being allowed for contractors to tender for design-and-build enquiries (14 October).

  • CAD monkey job advert satire
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    This week we follow construction’s great and good as they tear strips off underperforming football teams, harangue ministers and humiliate hacks …

  • ɫTV

    Prison Service strike threat grows

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The threat of strike action by 7000 construction workers employed by the Prison Service has intensified after employers refused to accede to union demands for pay increases.