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NewsHyder axes 300 jobs but insists cull is now over
Finance director says staffing levels will now remain ’broadly flat’ after profit rises by two-thirds
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NewscityWATCH: Caution
The City has been understanding of the many companies that had a look - and then recoiled - at failed contractor Rok last week. Even Mears, which was the first off the mark to salivate over Rok’s remains, but then perhaps wisely decided it didn’t fancy the prospect, managed to ...
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NewsTaylor Wimpey clinches £950m credit deal
A refinancing by Taylor Wimpey was the highlight among respectable interim statements to the City by three of the biggest housebuilders this week, despite a no-show from the traditional boost in autumn sales
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British Land reveals £1.5bn London development programme
Developer British Land has committed to a £1.5bn development programme in the London office market, it announced on Tuesday
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Styles & Wood to rebrand after turnover warning to City
Property services firm Styles & Wood has said that it will rebrand to become known as S&W, two weeks after it issued a turnover warning to the City
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HSE to lose extra inspectors
The Health and Safety Executive will not renew the contracts of the 24 temporary construction safety inspectors it recruited last year when their employment ends next June
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NewsStratford scholars
Make has won planning for an education building in Stratford, London, provisionally titled the Stratford Island University Centre
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Rok administrators in last push to sell contracts
Hopes of selling whole business gone as divisions shut down and potential buyers back away
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NewsLatest construction appointments : 19 November 2010
Barratt has appointed Tom Keevil general counsel and company secretary. He joins from United Utilities where he held the same position.
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NewsSpecialists: rebate demands ‘contagious’
The head of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group has described the practice of large facilities management firms demanding discounts and rebates from their subcontractors as a “contagious disease”, as suppliers warn they will have to pass cost cuts down their supply chains, writes Daniel Thomas.
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NewsMorrell berates architects
Chief construction adviser Paul Morrell compared the “irrational exuberance” in recent architecture to the hedonism of the financial markets in a speech yesterday.
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A week in the death of Rok
8/11Rok put into administration. Its construction staff shut down sites. Mears, Leadbitter and Kinetics are among firms that express an interest in acquiring it. Rok’s administrator pledges to pay staff.9/11First customers express anxiety about Rok work, with Tesco Underwriting saying it was already passing any new claims work to other ...
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Atkins academy goes international
Atkins plans to roll out its nuclear training academy internationally.
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NewsAghobili Hotel by Henning Larsen: On a high
Aghobili Hotel in Abastumani, Georgia, is designed by Henning Larsen Architects.Engineer Buro Happold and Danish architect Henning Larsen have won an international design competition for a new 200-room, 22,000m2 luxury hotel in Georgia, eastern Europe. The new Aghobili Hotel will be situated in the Meskheti mountain range near the spa ...
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NewsDerwent planning five new central London schemes
Developer ready to develop 1,000,000ft2 of property as capital’s office market improves
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NewsGovernment U-turn on planning levy
Coalition pledges to stick with Labour planning tariff after all
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NewsDavis Langdon director Richard Baldwin joins Derwent
Baldwin will start as Derwent’s head of development in January 2011
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NewsMansell wins £24m contract to build Hackney school
Contractor will consolidate Cardinal Pole Catholic School’s facilities onto one site
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NewsLife after death for Cabe arm as housing rating tool revived
Design watchdog to set up Community Interest Company to take on Building for Life business