All ɫTV articles in 2005 issue 49 – Page 3

  • ɫTV

    Urban Catalyst changes tack

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Urban Catalyst is to repackage itself as a consultant after becoming exasperated at the “frustrating” regeneration process.

  • Comment

    A painful case

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Sometimes contractors just get fed up with a job, and it grinds to a halt. When something like that happened to Birse, it got sacked. Then it got the bill …

  • Yvette Cooper, housing and planning minister, has followed ɫTV’s campaign “with interest”
    ɫTV

    ɫTV wins campaign to Reform the Regs

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    ODPM agrees to develop process for updating regulations in a ‘simpler, more transparent manner’

  • ɫTV

    Councils freed to build social housing

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The government has lifted its long-standing embargo on council house building as part of this week’s package to increase housing supply.

  • Bob Stagg
    Comment

    Brain donors wanted

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    At what point does a speculative joint venture become the exploitation of the naive or the desperate? Here’s an engineer’s take on this increasingly pressing question

  • ɫTV

    Lakesmere boss sets out new year resolutions

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The name of roofing contractor Lakesmere may not be particularly familiar to the industry, but the company’s work certainly is.

  • Comment

    Corporate killing north of the border

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The expert group set up by the Scottish executive to look at how to solve the conundrum of the ‘controlling mind’ has come up with a distinctive approach

  • Matt Bell
    Comment

    Biteback

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week, Colin Harding launched an outspoken attack on the pernicious effect of architectural elitism on the industry. Here’s the response from the ‘design snobs’ at CABE

  • ɫTV

    DfES pledges to cut bid costs of Schools for Future

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The leaders of the government’s ɫTV Schools for the Future programme have admitted that bid costs are unacceptably high.

  • ɫTV

    AYH to oversee fashion chain expansion

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Cost consultant and project manager AYH has been appointed by fashion chain New Look to manage the refurbishment of 31 former Littlewoods stores across the UK.

  • ɫTV

    Industry attacks Brown’s plans for housebuilding

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Planning gain supplement is attacked as ‘unworkable’, while PPS3 revives controversy over council powers

  • ɫTV

    John Laing latest firm to receive takeover approach

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Companies thought to be interested in PFI specialist include Spanish firms Acciona and Ferrovial

  • Simon Pole
    Features

    Appointments

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Who's recruited who this week...

  • Illustration by Daniel Mackie
    Features

    Breaking amec

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    In the late 1980s, Amec pioneered the concept of the one-stop shop for construction services. Now, with its French services business up for grabs and the rest of the company set to be split in two and possibly sold, the sharks have started circling …

  • Angela Monaghan
    ɫTV

    All tied up

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    This weeks sharewatch

  • Martin Self & Chris Wise
    Features

    After the wobble

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Ahhh, Christmas … Time for old chums to get together, share memories, slap backs, redistribute blame and generally relive their glory days. For this lot, those days were spent designing, building, redesigning and amending the Millennium Bridge. So here’s your chance to eavesdrop on Arup, Foster and Partners, Sir Robert ...

  • ɫTV

    MP calls for update on act review

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The DTI was this week urged to clarify its progress on the review of the Construction Act after claims that it would delay announcing its findings until next year.

  • ɫTV

    Simpson’s 68-storey tower in Southwark faces axe

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Beetham Tower in doubt as council votes against allowing tall building along Blackfriars Road

  • ɫTV

    Unions in T5 benefits row

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Eastern European fit-out workers on Heathrow Terminal 5 are being prevented from receiving their entitlement of travel and accommodation benefits, unions have claimed.

  • ɫTV

    Coverite sues Shepherd over £3m Leeds contract

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Roofing and cladding contractor Coverite has launched a legal battle against Shepherd Construction after being thrown off a £20m project in Leeds.