03 June 2011
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Amec buys US support services firm Mactec for $280m
6 Jun 11
Consultant spends $280m on Georgia-based business
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Architects up in arms over Tory dossier ‘smears’
9 Jun 11
RIBA president Ruth Reed hits out at ’clumsy’ attack
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Atkins boss Keith Clarke to step down
2 Jun 11
After eight years Clarke will be replaced by Dr Uwe Krueger
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Atkins buys Pöyry's oil and gas arm for £16m
6 Jun 11
Consultant says acquisition will give it platform for growth in gas and oil markets
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Australian engineer buys UK’s Colin Buchanan
03 June 2011
Sinclair Knight Merz completed the deal on Wednesday
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Bardsley increases turnover
03 June 2011
However, the firm’s pre-tax profit slightly fell
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Broadgate plans rocked by listing recommendation
6 Jun 11
English Heritage deals potential blow to British Land’s City scheme
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Building buys a pint… for AKT II
03 June 2011
We catch up with the newly de-merged AKT II in Clerkenwell
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Cala Homes ruling spells further planning paralysis
03 June 2011
Decision means councils may simply stall on housing cuts until Localism Bill becomes law
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Cala planning row: stalling is not option
3 Jun 11
Councils that delay plans to cut housing numbers until the localism bill is enacted do so at their own peril
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Carillion fined £200,000 for M25 death
7 Jun 11
Carillion and subcontractor fined after worker crushed during repair work
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Carillion wins £390m Canadian hospital contract
8 Jun 11
Firm will build Oakville hospital and provide maintenance for 30 year concession
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Chinese firms target UK market with counterfeit crane parts
03 June 2011
Suppliers are selling lower quality parts through websites
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Client feedback: Let me explain (at length)
03 June 2011
Client feedback helps people grow as professionals and is a mandatory part of the tendering process on public sector contracts. But how much is enough?
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Collateral warranties: Scottish Widows Services vs BDP
6 Jun 11
Although this case focuses on Scottish law (and is therefore not binding in English law) it is a useful example and demonstrates the importance of securing collateral warranties
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Construction ministers at risk under boundary shake-up
6 Jun 11
MPs Grant Shapps, Mark Prisk and Andrew Stunell all face losing constituencies
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Construction workers reject 1.25% pay rise
6 Jun 11
Proposal is the first increase offered in three years
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Costain wins £80m Network Rail job
8 Jun 11
Rebuild of Reading station is part of £850m wider project
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Country focus: The US
03 June 2011
As the US economy grows in strength and demand for buildings increases, the office and retail sectors are likely to be the first to experience a tangible improvement
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Davis Langdon in global rethink after Aecom merger
03 June 2011
Directors relocated as consultant focuses on Australia, New Zealand and US for growth
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DECC confirms implementation of reduced feed-in tariffs
9 Jun 11
Entrants to scheme from 1 August will receive lower subsidies
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Deloitte to compete with QSs on cost consultancy
03 June 2011
Former Davis Langdon partner heads new business advising big City tenants and residential sector
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Design Council names Paul Finch deputy chair
7 Jun 11
Little room for former Cabe commissioners as merged body announces board
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ECA’s new president vows to seize sustainability agenda
7 Jun 11
MD of A Pearson Electrical Contractors takes on the role
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Essex builder in administration
2 Jun 11
F J French reportedly lays off 27 staff
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Firm fined for 'absolute disregard' over asbestos
6 Jun 11
Contractor John Dodd ordered to pay £20,000 in fines and costs
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Flying the flag for Leaders 4 The Future
9 Jun 11
Industry must invest in its next generation of construction leaders
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Four killed in Wales refinery blast
3 Jun 11
Explosion kills four maintenance workers and seriously injuries another
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Get your excess clauses out
03 June 2011
Though the customer may not always be right, it can too often be blamed for waste. In fact, it’s frequently a contractor’s excess clauses that cost the client cash
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Glasgow medical facility releases £5m design and build contract
6 Jun 11
Newbuild centre to provide out-patient care and treatment for epilepsy
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Government £10bn housing land sell-off
7 Jun 11
Ministers to announce sales of sites for 100,000 homes tomorrow
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Government to set cost benchmarks for public work
03 June 2011
Paul Morrell confirms move that will allow public clients to compare project costs across departments
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Green Deal to cover solar panels
2 Jun 11
Home energy efficiency drive will cover renewable generation as well as insulation
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Green Deal workshop for small builders
03 June 2011
DECC wants to help SME’s understand the scheme
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Hill wins $1.5bn Iraqi housing scheme
2 Jun 11
Also Hill subsidiary Engineering S.A to manage construction of major wind farm in Brazil
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Homes, sweet homes
03 June 2011
We need to get the housebuilding market moving again and the government is doing a lot to help. But it’s not just about numbers - we need to build the right kind of homes
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Insolvencies up by a fifth in first three months of 2011
03 June 2011
Figures support ONS claims that the construction economy strank in Q1 2011
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Jeremy Horner: We will stay true to our values
03 June 2011
When Davis Langdon merged with Aecom last August, many clients worried that the British institution would lose its identity. But for Jeremy Horner, the group’s global chief executive, things had to change in order to stay the same - and besides, it was never all that British anyway. Portrait by David Vintiner
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Jones Lang LaSalle and King Sturge sign merger
03 June 2011
Deal will create the UK’s biggest property agency
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Just half of UK consultants expanding abroad
03 June 2011
Many of those who did increase business abroad put it down to UK work falling faster than international
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Ken Yeang at RIBA Annual Discourse - 15 June
9 Jun 11
Dr. Ken Yeang, chair of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, is recognised internationally for his focus on sustainable design. Extending over three decades, his work explores the aesthetics of what ‘green’ should look like.
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Kinetics shuts down northern business
9 Jun 11
Social housing contractor to refocus on the south as up to 400 staff leave
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L&Q files controversial dog track plans
7 Jun 11
Housing association submits revised application for 300-home Walthamstow regeneration
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Laing O’Rourke wins £120m Guy’s cancer centre
3 Jun 11
Contractor-led consortium wins RIBA-run design contest
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Learn how M&S built their first sustainable learning store
3 Jun 11
New store will help retailer develop knowledge of sustainable construction
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Life's little struggles
03 June 2011
The industry faces many challenges today, but this week highlights the more unusual hurdles. Lightning and leopards endanger architects, boats prove tricky to steer – and the RICS has trouble counting
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Liverpool to convert 177 vacant properties to affordable homes
6 Jun 11
Projects across three areas of the city worth £16m
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Localism and regeneration: The Alan Cherry Debate
03 June 2011
How will the Localism Bill affect the planning system and the provision of affordable housing? A high-profile panel including John Prescott and John Gummer, and joined by communities secretary Eric Pickles, tackled the issues at the inaugural Alan Cherry Debate. This is a sponsored feature for Countryside Properties
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Localism policies slated by MPs
9 Jun 11
Select committee says policy lacks coherence
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May Gurney revenue up 18%
2 Jun 11
Yet outsourcing company sees no sign of extra demand from cash-strapped authorities
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Mears sees public work growth
8 Jun 11
Social housing contractor wins £120m of work in three months
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Mid East contractor kicked off Midlands hospital
8 Jun 11
NHS Trust blames “extremely disappointing” delays
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Military man to lead UK's engineers
7 Jun 11
ICE appoints Brigadier Baveystock to replace Tom Foulkes
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MOD sets carbon challenge for contractors
3 Jun 11
New criteria set out for facilities management bidders
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More than the tea run: Construction graduates on the dole
03 June 2011
Too many construction graduates are on the dole. This is talent that our industry is going to need when the upturn comes. So let’s nurture it
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My digital life: Fleur Peck
03 June 2011
Fruit ninja, iPad 2, 3D printer
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New orders crash at fastest rate for 24 years
3 Jun 11
New orders fall 23% druing the first quarter
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New Zealand needs workers to help rebuild Christchurch
03 June 2011
Authorities welcome skilled staff from UK and Ireland to help rebuild earthquake-hit city
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Office sweets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Toffee Factory
03 June 2011
Development will provide 1,500m2 of workspace in 25 new office units
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OFT update
03 June 2011
The watchdog will not appeal slashed fines
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One man, one vision
03 June 2011
The Aecom and Davis Langdon merger heralds a new era for construction in the UK
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Partnerships for Schools to be closed down
7 Jun 11
Government confirms that delivery body’s functions will be split between education department and new funding agency
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Planning law hits firms
03 June 2011
Consultants warned new planning requirements could delay work
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Plans submitted for 400-home Armadale scheme
7 Jun 11
Developer SDA lodges application for second phase of Scottish regeneration
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Private equity saves Bank of England builder
03 June 2011
Holloway White Allom were presented with a winding-up petition
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RDA assets to transfer to Homes and Communities Agency
03 June 2011
Development assets worth £446m will be transferred to the HCA
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Regional development agencies: no man's land
03 June 2011
When the government decided to axe regional development agencies, uncertainty over the future of their £446m portfolio of development sites nearly led to a disastrous fire sale. Having taken a u-turn on the issue, what are the coalition’s plans for the sites now?
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Scottish arbitration: Join the rebellion
03 June 2011
There’s a movement afoot in Scottish arbitration, and the mood is spreading south of the border. The demands are simple: total arbitration revolution
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Sheffield contractor CR Gibbs falls into administration
3 Jun 11
Administrators say firm was crippled by public sector slowdown
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Steel boss says UK recovery remains 'distant prospect'
8 Jun 11
Severfield-Rowen CEO Tom Haughey says group is focusing on industrial, infrastructure and commercial sectors
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Supermarket sweep: Construction opportunities
03 June 2011
Supermarkets are bucking the retail downturn, and now they’re either going supersize or micro. Whichever option they choose, there’s going to be a ton of construction work
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TB Simatupang Development: Oriental sustainability
03 June 2011
Atkin’s design in Indonesia will house office, retail and serviced apartments
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Tesco's green specification process: Every little helps
03 June 2011
Supermarkets don’t like to be beaten on price - or on their environmental credentials. To get ahead of the competition, Tesco is now testing every bit of green kit it can lay its hands on to build zero-carbon stores. Building reports on the savings
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Thomas Vale posts 'record profits'
1 Jun 11
Revenue increases to £250m with a workload of £550m
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Time will tell
03 June 2011
It’s back to the future this week as readers reflect on whether or not the Localism Bill will deliver what it promises and if BIM heralds a bright new future
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Tory MP fights to make display energy certificates mandatory
7 Jun 11
Zac Goldsmith wants energy efficiency rating displayed on all commercial buildings
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Two firms vie for £340m Cheesegrater tower
8 Jun 11
Laing O’Rourke and Skanska are the firms to make the shortlist
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Ucatt appeal against void election is thrown out
8 Jun 11
Papers reveal election may not be re-run until November
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UK house prices up for May but still down for the year
03 June 2011
May saw a rise of 0.3%, taking the average price of a home to £167,208
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University of Essex gets an update
03 June 2011
Mott MacDonald has been appointed mechanical, electrical and public health consultant for Patel Taylor Architects’ £21m scheme for the University of Essex’s Colchester campus
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Waterside flats in Bristol
03 June 2011
Edward Cullinan Architects and Crest Nicholson have won planning permission for a waterfront building on the Bristol Harbourside redevelopment.
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What's missing from the Energy Bill
8 Jun 11
UK’s energy targets won’t be met if Ministers fail to provide more detail on energy targets and time scale
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Willmott lands Procure 21+ job
03 June 2011
Miller is only firm on list yet to win a job
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Wolseley UK revenue up by 1%
03 June 2011
Firm’s performance indicates small sign of improving prospects for the industry
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Workers agree improved pay offer
9 Jun 11
Construction unions agree deal on behalf of 500,000 workers
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Workspace announces pre-tax profit rise of 100%
6 Jun 11
Company behind Wandsworth Business Village reports good year for regeneration
