All ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø articles in 2001 issue 50 – Page 2

  • News

    Planning shake-up receives cautious welcome

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    DTLR green paper outlines five key changes to planning, designed to cut out red tape and involve communities.

  • News

    Camway sues over lost contract

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Essex-based civil engineer Camway Group is suing a former employee for more than £400,000, claiming that he set up a company to take away a contract from his employer.

  • News

    Camden launches regeneration plan

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    AN architectural initiative to improve down-at-heel streets and public spaces in London, such as Tottenham Court Road, was this week launched by Camden council.

  • News

    EC Harris buys two firms

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Quantity Surveyor EC Harris has made two acquisitions and opened four offices in the Far East.

  • News

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇøs must generate own energy, says report

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Cabinet Office review places new Part L under threat by recommending revised energy targets for buildings.

  • News

    Prince Charles slams tall buildings

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Prince of Wales believes tall buildings should be built discreetly in groups – if they have to built at all.

  • Features

    Brian Wilson

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.

  • News

    Tax body to quiz firms on bogus employment

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A taxation body representing employers says it will canvass trade opinion on bogus self-employment before submitting fiscal proposals to the chancellor Gordon Brown.

  • News

    Plant more trees, says Bellamy

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Television pundit and academic David Bellamy wants housebuilders to plant 16 trees every time they build a house.

  • News

    Birse back in profit despite fall in enquiries

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Enquiries drop 50% due to economic uncertainty, but contractor remains confident after posting £1.2m profit.

  • Features

    Sounding the fire alarm

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Use a blowtorch next to a stack of polystyrene insulation blocks, polythene-wrapped to a wooden pallet, and sooner than you can cite the health and safety code, you've got a roomful of poison gas. Something like this happens 11 times a day on UK sites. Tom Lane asks what's going ...

  • News

    Clients hesitant after US attacks, says Mitie

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø and support services company Mitie has said some clients had cancelled projects and others were hesitating about going ahead after the terror attacks in the USA on 11 September.

  • News

    Government must do better, admits Wilson

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Construction minister Brian Wilson this week promised to improve the government's track record over procurement, in order to avoid any more Picketts Lock-style disasters.

  • News

    Bovis shuns O'Rourke after acquisition of Laing

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Bovis drops concrete firm from preferred subcontractors list after Laing buy-out makes O'Rourke a direct rival.

  • News

    Factory closed after fatal accident

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    cheltenham-based housebuilder Westbury has closed its prefabrication factory in Yardley, Birmingham, after the death of a 48-year-old employee.

  • News

    Sir Colin Buchanan dies, aged 94

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    engineer, architect and town planner Sir Colin Buchanan, the first person to grapple with traffic congestion in British cities, has died aged 94.