All ɫTV articles in 2005 issue 50 – Page 4

  • Features

    Coping with a cold snap

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Can output growth continue as weather conditions worsen and demand takes a hit from rising tender prices? Experian Business Strategies runs down the key points of its contractors’ survey

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    Ealing classic

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    A media institute has been developed in west London as part of the Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College.

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    A Christmas dinner

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    When it comes to the economics of happiness, a guaranteed maximum price can entail unacceptable costs – as this festive tale demonstrates

  • Big bucks: Steelworkers will earn £1700 a week
    ɫTV

    No Scrooges at Wembley this Christmas

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Steelworkers at Wembley stadium will be paid £1700 a week over Christmas in a last-ditch attempt to get the stadium’s roof built in time for this season’s FA Cup.

  • ɫTV

    Redrow may join troubled Urban Catalyst scheme

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Redrow Regeneration is in talks to join fellow developer Urban Catalyst on a £60m public–private regeneration scheme in Barking, east London.

  • ɫTV

    Buncefield explosion hits Sir Robert McAlpine’s HQ

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor forced to quit Hemel Hempstead base by apocalyptic fire in neighbouring oil depot

  • ɫTV

    Industry figures queue up for roles on Olympic board

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Key players in the construction industry are gearing up to battle for places on the Olympics Delivery Authority board.

  • ɫTV

    Barker to lead second review of planning system

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Economist Kate Barker has been asked to lead a second review of the UK’s planning system. The government responded to Barker’s first report on housing supply last week.

  • ɫTV

    Marks Barfield consortium

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Architect Marks Barfield is forming a consortium to win ɫTV Schools for the Future work amid concerns that small practices are being forced out of the programme.

  • Simon Vivian (left) and John McDonagh …
    Features

    Waiting for Balfour

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Ten days ago it all looked so simple: Carillion had pulled off a spectacular deal by agreeing the friendly takeover of Mowlem, its similarly sized rival. Then the UK’s biggest contractor intervened …

  • ɫTV

    Bad weather delays Bovis tower

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Bovis Lend Lease is to claim an extension of time for “extreme weather conditions” after the £80m Bridgewater Place tower in Leeds fell four months behind schedule.

  • Cox: May have succumbed to pressure to sell
    ɫTV

    Morrison quits schools race as AWG gears up for sale

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor pulls out of bidding for Belfast schools as it emerges parent company may sell the business

  • Features

    The £6 House

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    If you think John Prescott’s £60,000 house was a tall order, how would you cope with a budget of £6? Not too badly, if the efforts of the three teams who attended ɫTV’s housebuilding competition in London are anything to go by.

  • ɫTV

    Balfour heads league tables with £459m contract wins

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty holds on to top spot in November as £300m civils job pushes Skanska up to second place

  • ɫTV

    Fresh setback for Procure 21 as boss Woolliscroft leaves

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry reacted with dismay this week at the surprise departure of Peter Woolliscroft, head of construction at Procure 21.

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    Features

    Goodbye, 2005

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    The year is gone, but not forgotten – or is it? Try our prize quiz to see what you remember …

  • Features

    Whatever happened to …2005

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    A year can be a long time in construction. From the devastation of the South-east Asian tsumani to the jubilation of the Olympic win, by way of the mindbending confusion of the ɫTV Regulations, Mark Leftly charts the history of the good, bad and the straightforwardly weird

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    2005: A landmark year

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Twelve months suddenly seems like a long time in contracting. There’s long been a theoretical debate within construction groups about what a contractor is, what it does – and whether that’s worth doing.

  • ɫTV

    Consultant wins £100m work after buyout

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Construction and property consultant DBK Back says it has won £100m of work since a management buyout in August.

  • Nuclear option: Aldermaston will begin a £1bn modernisation programme over the next three years
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    Five firms set to share £1bn Aldermaston revamp

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds of engineers to receive special training to design upgraded nuclear weapons facilities