All articles by Dominic White – Page 3
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BAA framework firms face annual ‘MOT’
Suppliers must pass client’s yearly tests to keep their place on new 10-year contracts.
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‘Give up and go home,’ Livingstone tells LU bidders
Mayoral race favourite says he will go to court to prevent part-privatisation of the Tube if elected. Mayoral race favourite says he will go to court to prevent part-privatisation of the Tube if elected.
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Confederation ‘bitterly disappointed’ at budget
Construction Confederation chief Jennie Price slams Brown’s decision not to cut VAT to tackle cowboys.
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Stefan Allesch-Taylor
The 30-year-old entrepreneur is turning his three-year-old property firm into an investment company and has just spent £85m on a stake in a US Internet business. So, why is he interested in quantity surveyor MDA?
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'Merge, then float,' stakeholder tells MDA
Allesch-Taylor wants to take QS to the market after getting approval for his representative on the board.
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Paul Whitmore transfers to Morgan Sindall
Laing Construction’s managing director joins smaller rival after 14 months in the job.
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YJL plans next shopping spree
Contractor announces £12.5m Britannia takeover; another buy expected soon.
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Top analyst to explain share slide to bosses
City high-flyer to tell Major Contractors Group why investors are taking their money out of construction.
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Laing poaches Mowlem boss May
Laing headhunts rival’s head of building operations as chief executive resigns after 14 months in post.
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City slackers
Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?
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Wilcon sets up on-line merchant
New Buildpack.com division will use £3m software system to set up just-in-time deliveries to sites.
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Where are tomorrow’s leaders?
The City is beginning to worry that, as contracting’s top bosses edge closer to retirement, the industry is not doing enough to find and groom their successors.
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HBG to cut jobs after hostile bid, says City
Rationalisation expected after Dutch contractor issues protective shares to fight off takeover.
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Raynsford to lead City charm offensive
Construction minister and Movement for Innovation chief to meet City to boost industry’s image.
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It's Sunny Up North
Forget those rumours of Britain’s north/south divide – at least as far as construction is concerned. Urban regeneration is under way in city centres from Edinburgh to Portsmouth, and the demand for leisure and retail development everywhere points to a national building boom. Building takes the temperature across the UK.
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Jarvis shifts stock market listing
Jarvis is the latest construction firm to get support services listing in an attempt to boost its falling share price.
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Tilbury to relist after sale of housing arm
Persimmon buys Scottish housing arm for £22.8m as Tilbury Douglas plans move to support services sector.
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Berkeley in talks to merge with or buy Taywood
City sources say firms have been discussing a deal for at least two weeks.
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YJL not for sale, says new chief
Chief executive Roger Feast rejects City speculation that the company is to go private or be sold, saying his long-term strategy is to buy or merge.
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US deal propels Amec into global league
£221m acquisition takes Amec further from construction but places it alongside Bechtel and Fluor Daniel.