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NewsTrillium snaps up Amec PPP arm for £163.5m
Deal with Land Securties Trillium includes sale of nine PFI projects that have reached financial close
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CommentJCT sleeps with the fishes
Standard forms are supposed to make things easy, but that wasn’t exactly the builder’s experience in Reinwood vs Brown. Maybe it’s time the whole lot were taken for a ride …
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FeaturesInside the project team
Now you’re all clued up on Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre, it’s time to meet the Aussies who designed it. Martin Spring got inside their mutual headspace. Portraits by Tim Foster
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Government work propels Kier to the top in June
Business barometer — Contractor picks up 33 small jobs while Balfour wins £331m hospital
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Mears denies ‘massaging’ figures as inquiry opens
Housing Corporation examines claims that repair firm provided false tenant satisfaction figures
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NewsBrown seeks alternative to PGS as he puts housing at the top of the agenda
Prime minister Gordon Brown this week put housing at the top of his agenda and said the planning gain supplement (PGS) bill would be deferred, if the industry could come up with a better alternative.
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Features‘I just feel the whole system is rather stupid’ — One man’s 14-year battle with the planning laws
Gerald Ringe had one of those classic dreams: buy an old wreck in the country and turn it into a rural retreat. But he hadn’t counted on the idiosyncrasies of our planning system. Fourteen years after his first planning application, he’s finally giving up. He tells Katie Puckett why…
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NewsNew logistics facility records major efficiencies
South London consolidation centre slashes site delivery by two thirds and emissions by three quarters
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Kiss and tell
The wrangles between Multiplex and Honeywell at Wembley have thrown up an interesting problem about whether information in a negotiated settlement can be disclosed in court
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The cosmic bungalow
Hydrogen is the basic building block of matter. When it fuses with itself, it releases enough energy to light the universe. When it combines with oxygen, it releases enough energy to heat a small house in the Black Country. Is it the answer to all our problems?
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NewsCommercial growth stutters
Growth in commercial development in June slowed to its lowest rate for five months according to property consultant Savills.
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NewsBoard averted ‘Kier scandal’
Measures put in place to avoid conflict of interest after Dodds and Mattar admitted relationship
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NewsHSE investigates personnel link between crane collapses
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating links between the crane collapse in Croydon last month and the Canary Wharf collapse in 2000, after it emerged that “a number of people” had worked at both sites.
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NewsSilver lining for Hull schools
City’s MPs, including Alan Johnson, to urge fast-tracking of BSF programme after floods
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Population pressure: can Britain learn to live with Hong Kong-style housing?
Developments are being built that cram 2,500 homes into a hectare, and more are on the way. A team of architects has reported on how we can manage the social strains that arise in such ‘superdense’ schemes
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Bovis finance director lost job before joining
Bovis Lend Lease paid off its incoming finance director one week before he was due to start work in May.
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Silver lining for Hull schools
City’s MPs, including Alan Johnson, to urge fast-tracking of BSF programme after floods
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NewsBoard averted ‘Kier scandal’
Measures put in place to avoid conflict of interest after Dodds and Mattar admitted relationship
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Government work propels Kier to the top in June
Contractor picks up 33 small jobs while Balfour wins £331m hospital
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NewsEP reaps benefits of land sales
English Partnerships generated two-thirds of its funding from land sales last year.