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NewsJordan green tower excavations near completion
Developer claims building will ‘set new standards for sustainability’
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NewsMott MacDonald to advise on Indian biotech park
35-acre site will house facility to develop medicines from local plants
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NewsKeller turnover breaks £1bn barrier
Ground engineering specialist posts solid results, but outlook for 2009 is less cheerful
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NewsSaudi Arabia 'well placed to survive downturn'
Report says kingdom's economy will be minimally affected by the global turmoil this year and bounce back in 2010
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NewsCrossrail to give £1.2bn boost to South-east economy
Study calculates major transport and productivity benefits across the region, with some London boroughs gaining £60m a year
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NewsTop Dubai developer considers merger
Top-three developer Union Properties mulls merger as a solution to cash troubles after Formula One theme park goes on hold
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NewsCurrie & Brown board takes 25% pay cut
Company cuts employee wages by an average of 8% to remain competitive in downturn
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CommentThe sayings of Bernard Cribbins
We’re back in the seventies… the decade of endless teabreaks, sclerotic roads and paralysed government – as portrayed in the work of a certain popular actor
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CommentAre you stuck in one-way traffic? Liquidated damages and the Construction Act
Rupert Choat Developers can’t rely on the Construction Act when they claim liquidated damages, but the contractor can when it reclaims them. How unfair!
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NewsBarratt bank covenants safe – unless there’s a meltdown
Housebuilder is confident it will not break agreements on £1.4bn debt as sales edge upwards
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HCA’s regeneration power ‘hamstrung by spending rules’
Agency struggling to kickstart stalled schemes because of restrictions on what it can fund
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NewsViñoly’s glass chimney axed from Battersea design
Developer caves in to demands to abandon plans for 300m-tall sustainable structure
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News‘Scrabbling’ architects vie for £200k job
An interior design job that could be worth just £200,000 has attracted more than 100 entries in the latest indication of the paucity of design work coming to market.
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NewsMcCarthy & Stone gets nod for £800m debt deal
Debt-for-equity swap will see 60 senior lenders take control of the firm
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NewsLunchtime rules in Mexico City
Business lunches in Mexico City often start with tequilla and end with a man hug
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NewsGiant glass panels arrive for the leaning tower of Abu Dhabi
The world's biggest flatbed delivers diamond-shaped glazing panels for the RMJM-designed Capital Gate building
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NewsOut of credit: how the banks took away the industry’s overdrafts
As a new report reveals that construction has had more credit withdrawn than any other sector, Tom Bill looks at the likely consequences
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NewsNumber of unsold social homes ‘peaks’ at 10,000
Government claims backlog will fall as it funds conversion of 4,000 houses to rented property
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CommentKissing goodbye to your money? Creditors voluntary arrangements
Tony Bingham Your contractor wins an adjudication award but is subject to a creditors’ voluntary arrangement. You intend to take the case to arbitration. Do you pay up in the meantime?
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FeaturesProfiled cladding
Euroclad‘s Elite Systems have been used on the £6.4m redevelopment of the historic market site in Minehead, Somerset