All Building articles in 2000 Issue 28 – Page 2
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Features
Fighting for one’s clause
Tolent Construction has a home-made clause in its subcontract agreement that is supposedly designed to deter spurious claims , but is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
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News
HBG UK boss ‘relieved’ at merger collapse
HBG s UK managing director Adrian Franklin expressed relief this week that the merger talks between his Dutch parent and dredging firm Boskalis were over. The two firms, which entered negotiations in May, announced that they had collapsed on Monday. The aim had been to create a construction and ...
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‘Undemocratic’ Bloxham
Tom Bloxham, chairman of Urban Splash, one of Manchester s most high-profile urban regeneration companies, said that for urban regeneration to be successful it had to be undemocratic . He told delegates: If you asked everybody what they wanted, you would only get the lowest common denominator. In ...
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March-May orders dip 8%
Order books for the three months to May were 8% down on the previous quarter, according to the latest DETR figures. Declining orders in all sectors resulted in order books 10% slimmer than a year ago, with a total value of £5.417bn in March-May compared with £6.019bn in the same ...
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Two left in race for £60m Rolls-Royce headquarters
BMW to choose between Aukett and Grimshaw or Hopkins to design high-tech Sussex factory.
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Norwegian rival buys 26% stake in Kvaerner
A question mark is hanging over the future of Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction giant Kvaerner on Wednesday after a Norwegian rival bought a 26.4% stake. Aker Maritime, which competes fiercely with Kvaerner's oil and gas operations in Norway, is now Kvaerner s largest single shareholder after buying the stake, which ...
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ISG buys out Exterior for £1.15m
Interior Services Group has bought out the 10% stake of its construction management subsidiary Exterior that had been owned by the division s five founder directors. ISG has acquired the shares for £1.15m. Three Exterior directors will stay on. They are Steve Trotter, Matthew Giles and John Ness, who have ...
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