| Building 1996 Giles Barrie |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 15m pounds sterling writ hits MPs' project. (Harmon takes legal action against UK House of Commons) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| '1 million pounds a month' if dome is late. (one million pounds sterling; building contract for the Millenium Exhibition, London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Amec wins 400m pounds sterling PFI bid. (Amec favourite to win contract to build and operate offices for department of social security) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Argent to award partnership deals. (plans to award contracts to Kyle Stewart and Wimpey) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Arup wins support for Battersea plan. (Ove Arup plans to redevelop Battersea power station in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Atkins takes back seat on BRE bid. (W.S. Atkins International Ltd.; United Kingdom Department of the Environment's Building Research Establishment) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Banks' worries hit PFI hospitals. (banks cautious about private finance deals for hospitals) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| BEC legal chief offered lobbying job. (Jennie Price, legal and public affairs director at BEC, may head Major Contractors Group) | Construction and materials industries | Erica Billingham, Giles Barrie |
| Bidders back off 71m pounds sterling PFI hospital. (bidders concerned about structuring of deal for relocation of Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Bucknall Group back from the brink. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Can the Construction Bill be avoided? (proposed legislation to outlaw payment abuse) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Cawthra to join Coopers' PFI team. (David Cawthra to join private finance initiative advisory team of Coopers and Lybrand) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Clients slate 'incompetence.' (clients investing heavily in construction to criticise the industry's efficiency) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Contractors 'chock-a-block' with bids. (many top UK contractors see rise in private workload) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Contractors queue for 2bn pounds sterling MOD deal. (strong interest in running the Ministry of Defence's married quarters) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Contractors split on monetary union: the construction industry is divided over whether a single currency will be good or bad for business. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Contractors start PFI exodus. (bidders for planned privately financed hospital in London, England, find costs of PFI projects are too high) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| D&B shackles claim second victim. (procurement system causes problems for Amec's headquarters building for Sun Life) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Dearer, dera, dear. (U.K.'s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency's new headquarters nears completion, but at a cost)(includes related articles) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Direct labour set for revival. (move away from self-employed workers and subcontractors in the UK construction industry) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| DOE makes U-turn over adjudication. (UK government drops clauses in the Construction Bill which would have transformed adjudication into a type of arbitration) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| DOE to 'privatise' bid lists. (private sector to gain control of UK government's approved lists of contractors and consultants) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| DOE to quell industry fury over bill. (UK government redrafts documents supporting Construction Bill which fail to distinguish between arbitration and adjudication) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Don't break up the BRE, DOE told: ministers may ignore a DOE-employed team's advice to keep the BRE as an independent research body and force sale of the 725-strong establishment to generate cash. | Construction and materials industries | James Macneil, Giles Barrie |
| East meets West on Foster skyscraper. (Japanese tall building techniques to be used for construction of Millennium tower in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Elaine Knutt, Giles Barrie |
| EC Harris lands Cabinet Office role. (EC Harris to head team to assist Cabinet Office in moving to new headquarters building in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| EC Harris secures Terminal 5 control. (EC Harris wins contract for cost management of Heathrow Terminal 5) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Edinburgh hospitals under the knife: contractors are having to scale down two hospital schemes where lack of communication between parties and funding shortfalls highlight the problem of 'affordability'. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Employer groups set for relaunch. (United Kingdom's Construction Confederation) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Five in running for Moscow embassy. (contractors compete to build new British embassy) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Five QSs bid for Whitehall relocations. (managing all government office relocations in the south-east of the UK for the next three years) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| For better and for Birse.(Birse, United Kingdom) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| HK airport claim spirals. (BCJ seeks compensation for variations to work on Chek Lap Kok airport terminal building) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Housebuilders boost market morale.(House Builders Federation) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Industry poised for the 'super lobby.' (UK construction contractors plan 'Construction Federation') | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Laing uses direct labour on 114m pounds sterling job. (redevelopment of Cardiff Arms Park rugby stadium) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Longley confident in PFI gamble.(company director Robert Longley; Private Finance Initiative investment) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Major gets PFI health warning. (UK prime minister John Major warned of problems with plans to privately fund hospital building programme) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Manchester firms suffer after bomb. (construction companies' offices damaged in bomb attack in Manchester, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| MOD faces claim for L60 million.(Ministry of Defence, Bristol headquarters) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Mowlem threatens to leave BEC.(British contractor Mowlem Construction) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| MPs slam PFI testing rules. (report to criticise government policy of testing all public sector construction projects for private finance options) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| New Bart's to include hotel and shops. (plans for replacement for St Bartholomew's hospital in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| 'No forest of towers' says City planner. (influx of tall building planning applications not expected by England's City of London planning officer) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Nuttall lands first Greenwich contract. (Edmund Nuttall begins decontamination of site for millennium exhibition in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Optimism brings QS jobs drive. (growing demand for quantity surveyors in the UK) | Construction and materials industries | Elaine Knutt, Giles Barrie |
| Private firms 'don't understand CCT'. (UK local authorities claim that private construction companies do not understand the new compulsory competitive tendering rules) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Return to spender: city boom. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Review of 40m pounds sterling Sadlers Wells project. (Richard Ellis critical of work on scheme for Sadlers Wells Theatre in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Rolls' 300 million pounds sterling bid takes off.(Rolls-Royce LTD; aerospace facilities management contract progress) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Ross Goobey plans to get PFI moving. (private finance initiative). | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Skills review may signal end for CITB. (Construction Industry Training Board) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Spinning Jennie. (Jennie Price)(Interview) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Striking accord. (co-operation between unions and employers in the United Kingdom construction industry)(includes related articles) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Super spender.(Gil Howarth, head of Railtrack's Major Projects Division)(Interview) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Tarmac puts its top team in place. (Mike Casebourne to lead joint venture between Tarmac and GEC) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Tarmac shuffles Anderson. (David Anderson leaves position as joint managing director of Tarmac's UK building division) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| The complete works: the project manager charged with finishing the troubled British Library. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| The Tower in line for 20m pounds sterling new look. (BDP wins competition to design improvements to area around the Tower of London) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Top 10 struggle to compete in Europe. (leading UK contractors continue to face difficulties) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Top firms press for training role. (mixed views on training in the UK construction industry) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Top QS forges Far East link. (Gardinery & Theobald in talks with Levett & Bailey of Hong Kong) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Treasury bid reaches muddle finale. (confusion over selection of developer for redevelopment of Treasury's headquarters building in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Treasury bid worries banks. (banks concerned about developer Godfrey Bradman's plans for redevelopment of Treasury in London, England) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Treasury faces unique PFI rent deal. (UK government could be asked to lease back a third of the Treasury's headquarters) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Turner & Townsend tipped for T5. (likely to be appointed quantity surveyor for main terminal building at Heathrow airport's Terminal Five) | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| Two cheers for payment legislation. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
| UK firms set for airport work take-off: DTI-led group will help companies compete worldwide on expected flood of jobs. | Construction and materials industries | Giles Barrie |
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