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Alastair McLellan

Brown fuels UK transport boom

1-Sep-2000
PUBLIC SECTOR capital spending on transport in the UK is set to increase by just under 40% for each of the next three years, the Government revealed in July.
ICE puts pay on the agenda

1-Sep-2000
CIVIL ENGINEERS with pay problems could soon benefit from a dedicated advice service under an initiative being considered by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Brown fuels transport boom with massive spending hike . . .

20-Jul-2000
PUBLIC SECTOR capital spending on transport is set to increase by just under 40% for each of the next three years, the Government revealed on Tuesday.
ICE puts pay on the agenda

13-Jul-2000
CIVIL ENGINEERS with pay problems could soon benefit from a dedicated advice service under an initiative being considered by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Even bigger and better

6-Jul-2000
Civils and Pipelines will be back in two years' time. Alastair McLellan previews the show.
Inside Interbuild

6-Jul-2000
For the first time Civils and Pipelines took place alongside the Interbuild show. Alastair McLellan reviews the great construction gathering.
The state of the nation

25-May-2000
NCE and the ICE this week launch a campaign to educate the UK's opinion formers about the need to improve the country's infrastructure. NCE editor Alastair McLellan explains.
Chartered status = £?

4-May-2000
Comment
Engineering must clear the path for bright new talent

20-Apr-2000
Comment
Morton confident Government will honour rail funding pledge

13-Apr-2000
News
Casebourne blasts 'inadequate' transport spend

23-Mar-2000
ICE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Mike Casebourne slammed the increase in transport spending announced in Tuesday's budget as 'totally inadequate.'
Value of job satisfaction

16-Mar-2000
Comment
Construction's great divide

17-Feb-2000
Clients' charter
Silver lining brightens signs of mini recession

10-Feb-2000
News; Construction is heading into recession, but it is not all doom and gloom. Alastair McLellan looks into the crystal ball to predict who the winners and losers will be.
Civils shift Global construction fortunes look set to shift to southern Europe and Asia over the next 10 years, according to an influential US study. Alastair McLellan reports.

1-Jan-2000
Economic forecast;
Roads back on transport agenda

2-Dec-1999
'WE SEE NEW roads as a last resort rather than a first,' then-Transport Minister Gavin Strang told the British Road Federation in September 1997.
NEC fails partnering test

1-Dec-1999
Overseas brief
Brixton boys make good

18-Nov-1999
Project 73; Thames/ Morrison partnering; The client says: 'We're not looking for hole diggers, we want people who service customers.' The contractor says: 'The whole project is based on what value it can add to the clients' business, not about least cost
Civils predicted to lead global construction growth over next decade

18-Nov-1999
News
Standard & Poor's Global shift

18-Nov-1999
Economic forcast This week US economist Standard & Poor's launches its forecasts for the global construction market over the next 10 years. Alastair McLellan has been given an exclusive preview of the study's keynote findings.
A new start

11-Nov-1999
'ARE YOU going to change the name?' was by far the most common question asked by those learning that we planned to relaunch NCE. The answer, of course, is no - New Civil Engineer/NCE is a universally known brand and not something you toss away without good reason.
New Engineering Contract attacked as cause of conflict

28-Oct-1999
THE ICE'S New Engineering Contract is 'predicated on conflict' and is a poor choice for partnering projects, the Construction Industry Council claimed this week.
Culture of secrecy threatens rail safety

14-Oct-1999
RAIL SAFETY is being undermined by the sector's litigious and adversarial culture, leading civil engineers claimed this week.
Sad civils near bottom of happiness league

9-Sep-1999
THREE QUARTERS of civil engineers are dissatisfied with their jobs, a survey by Bath University suggests.
£30bn lift for US civil engineering sector

2-Sep-1999
THE US CIVIL engineering sector is booming, the latest economic forecast for the world's largest construction market claimed this week.
Cities of the Maya

2-Sep-1999
When the producers of Star Wars were scouting for a suitably otherworldly location to create shots of space craft flying above a rebel base, they chose the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala. The 70m high pyramids towering above the rain forest canopy provided the perfect backdrop to scenes of inter-galactic conflict.
Construction forecast to narrowly avoid recession

19-Aug-1999
NEWS
Fifteen transport ministers in two years

5-Aug-1999
TRANSPORT GROUPS have reacted with dismay to New Labour's third ministerial transport team reshuffle since May 1997.
Extra cash for Tube system

22-Jul-1999
THIS WEEK'S £517M injection into the deteriorating London Underground network offers fresh hope for the ailing civils sector.
Travelling Ridley sets out to broaden minds Tony Ridley's international lecture tour hopes to challenge civil engineers into thinking bigger and broader.

10-Jun-1999
ANALYSIS
ECCE seeks to bring down European qualification barriers

6-May-1999
UK CHARTERED civil engineers will be able to work freely throughout Europe if a new attempt to secure mutual recognition of professional qualifications is successful.
Mutual recognition set to avoid European qualification barriers

6-May-1999
UK CHARTERED civil engineers will be able to work freely throughout Europe if a new attempt to secure mutual recognition of professional qualifications is successful.
Forecasts for 2000 downplay slump fears

29-Apr-1999
A SIGNIFICANT strengthening of the construction market in 2000 has been identified by NCE's analysis of the industry's three main forecasts.
Infrastructure growth forecasts are halved

22-Apr-1999
GROWTH FORECASTS for infrastructure work during the next two years have been slashed in half by the National Council of Building Materials Producers.
Casebourne attacks SARTOR 'horror'

11-Mar-1999
NEW ICE chief executive Mike Casebourne has launched a stinging attack on the 'full horror' of the SARTOR education reforms.
ICE guide helps public complain about engineers

4-Mar-1999
Reported by Damian Arnold E-mail: damiana@construct.emap.co.uk
Maunsell HQ moves to UK

25-Feb-1999
MAUNSELL HAS relocated its global head office from Hong Kong to the UK to target the US and Continental Europe.
Broadgate champ elected

18-Feb-1999
PETER ROGERS, one of the most influential civil engineers in the building sector during the late eighties boom, will become an ICE vice president in November.
Departing Dobson predicts boom in overseas ICE members

11-Feb-1999
THE ICE is on the verge of a huge international expansion, departing director general Roger Dobson claimed this week.
Expanding Motts eyes US power sector and India

11-Feb-1999
A US power specialist and a multi-disciplinary Indian consultant are top of the Mott MacDonald shopping list, according to chairman Tim Thirlwall.
Profile

11-Feb-1999
Roger Dobson
Mott MacDonald goes shopping

26-Nov-1998
MOTT MACDONALD continued to invest in the building sector with the purchase of retail specialist Bingham Cotterell this week.
Queen confirms congestion charging powers for London

26-Nov-1998
URBAN CONGESTION charging will be introduced for the first time in the UK by the proposed Greater London Authority, the Government confirmed this week.
4 Cardiff Arms Park redevelopment. Cardiff 114M

5-Nov-1998
As the news broke of main contractor Laing's provision for a 20M-plus loss on the project last week, losing bidders Ballast Nedam, Sir Robert McAlpine/ Impregilo and Bovis are sure to have breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Integrate for Egan

5-Nov-1998
THE TREASURY is to drive government departments down the design and construct route in an attempt to achieve the goals of the Egan Report.
Projects aim to measure up to Egan

5-Nov-1998
TWENTY THREE civil engineering schemes have been chosen by Government as demonstration projects to highlight the benefits of following recommendations of the Egan report.
Profile: John Reid

6-Aug-1998
Labour's new Transport Minister
Cash curb hits traffic targets

22-Jan-1998
LOCAL AUTHORITIES are unlikely to receive significant extra funding to meet the demands created by the new Road Traffic Reduction Act, it emerged this week.
Bonds could raise private funds for regional development

15-Jan-1998
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Agencies could be given the power to issue bonds to raise private finance for regeneration projects.
We're no mugs, Simms warns clients

8-Jan-1998
LEADING CLIENTS have been taking contractors 'for mugs' according to newly knighted Tarmac chief executive Sir Neville Simms.

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