All Building articles in 2005 issue 13
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NewsCowlin Group hit 100m sales
Private building contractor sees turnover and profit increase as it wins more public sector contracts.
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AMEC buys Game Nucleaire SAS for 14.3 million
Acquisition opens the door to nuclear plant and recycling work across France.
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NewsCharles Dickens returns to Kent
£60m visitor attraction will feature Dickensian cobbled streets and an annual Winter wonderland.
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Balfours Gammon wins 33m Hong Kong road contract
Road win follows £175m hotel contract awarded to Gammon last week.
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NewsDocklands student flats win planning approval
The London Borough of Newham approves Fraser Brown MacKenna's designs for £33m University of East London student complex.
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Galliford Try secures 25m care home contracts
Contractor reaches financial close on four residential care home scheme in the London Borough of Ealing.
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NewsBovis wins contract for first Spanish PFI hospital
Bovis Lend Lease is keen to enter the Spanish healthcare PFI sector after securing biggest hospital in Madrid health plan.
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Laing reaches financial close on two PFIs
Accomodation arm Equion will build seven schools in Swindon and provide Cleveland with new police stations.
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NewsCostain consortia wins 750m Southern Water contract
AMP4 contract guarantees work for five years and could be extended to ten.
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HSC publishes CDM regulations draft
Industry has a four months to comment on Construction Design and Management Regulations, which are expected to be introduced from early 2006.
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NewsFacelift launches revolutionary new sea platform
All at sea as new product from Facelift floats wind farm’s boat.
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Insurers pressure firms to come clean on CSCS figures
Contractors may have to disclose proportion of staff with skills cards or face higher insurance premiums.
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NewsGovernment must refund PFI bid costs, says RICS
Study says financial risks are putting firms off PFI, as RICS pre-election manifesto calls for standard cost reports.
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News10 Downing Street to host regeneration summit
Senior officials to discuss post-election policy with industry bosses, as government races to sign off pre-election PFIs.
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Comment
Safety slip
I’m sure mine is not the only email regarding the article about the Arnolfini Arts Centre in Bristol (11 March, page 50).
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Roger and the women
With reference to Roger Knowles’ letter claiming that women choose not to work on site because of their nails (11 March, page 38): well, now we know what he really thinks about women in building.
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FeaturesTony’s plans for Thomas
Thomas Vale has acquired the reputation of being Britain’s best small contractor. This is of course wrong. It’s really pretty big – and getting bigger. We met the man behind it; Mikael Gothage took his photo