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NewsLloyds readies Apollo for HBOS sell-off by sealing debt deal
Bank and shareholders to write down undisclosed sum of public sector contractor’s £300m debt
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CommentToo much monkey business
It seems that clients are reverting to the primitive practice of lowest cost single-stage tendering. Trouble is, lowest cost means guaranteed minimum quality
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NewsHousebuilders creak into action as they run out of unsold stock
Firms respond to gradual increase in demand, but long period of convalescence is in store
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CommentOne last big push
Pat McFadden, Lord Mandelson’s deputy in the Commons and a Cabinet attendee, has acknowledged that construction’s representation in Whitehall is a joke, and that a chief construction officer is needed
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CommentA beginners' guide to English: Compact contracts
You may think it best to make a contract as verbose as possible to ensure it misses nothing, but in reality it’s best to be brief and to the point
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NewsOlympic bosses to rethink 10,000-home legacy plan
Plans for Olympic park after 2012, including conversion of stadium into school, may be altered
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NewsCyril Sweett in talks over £30bn of Iraqi reconstruction
Plan includes rebuilding Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala, and adding multibillion-pound city extensions
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Currie & Brown robbed of Mexican police station haul
A programme to build 80 police stations in Mexico, that was being managed by Currie & Brown, is to be re-tendered as the government tries to drive down costs
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NewsRight at home
Now that the Conservative party is ambling to victory at the next election victory, it has much more freedom to develop housing policy. Jon Neale looks at what it’s likely to be
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CommentThe use of weapons: Throwing in brand new arguments
Sounds like a pretty basic question, but what can the assaulted party in an adjudication do in its defence? Can it, for example, throw the kitchen sink at its tormentor?
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Balfour Beatty bucks the trend in meagre month of May
Business barometer UK’s biggest contractor wins £2.5bn M25 job, as others fight for the scraps
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Volker chief calls for election as UK arm hits £449m turnover
Alan Robertson, chief executive of Volker Wessels UK, has called for a snap general election to end what he calls the “paralysis within government”
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I've started so I'll finish: Can you omit all future works?
Cunning developers who want to terminate a contractor’s employment without facing claims are altering contracts to omit all future works. Can they get away with it?
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NewsSummer of strikes threatens Olympics and Crossrail
140 shop stewards vote unanimously to ballot members on industrial action to improve workers’ rights
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NewsVideo: Preserving railway history at King's Cross Station
The renovation of the first historic building on the £600m station redevelopment has been completed
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NewsEngland's first single-room only hospital tops out
Laing O'Rourke finishes 512-bed £225m scheme, located outside Tunbridge Wells
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NewsShortlist unveiled for prime minister’s Better Public Building awards
List for best public-funded building includes schools, bridges – and an extension to the M6
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NewsJohn McAslan reveals cinema plans for Hornsey Town Hall
The £16m project to restore the north London town hall includes a public performance space and private housing
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NewsKidnap cases rise as firms venture further afield
One in 10 says kidnapping has affected their firm, as construction crime rises in the downturn
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NewsBuilding joins Bobby Moore in bike ride to Paris
Riders in the Build Moore cycling challenge will pedal 200 miles to raise money for Article 25 and the Bobby Moore Fund