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Metronet looks to reduce workload
Metronet, the PPP company responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of two-thirds of London Underground, is trying to reduce the scope of the work it undertakes, writes Angela Monaghan.
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NewsMultiplex family sells up after 45 years
Contractor to be sold to asset manager Brookfield for £3.1bn
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Disaster on your hands? Take notes!
If your supplier gets it wrong and costs you sleepless nights and wasted days, you can claim money for your lost time. A recent case illustrates the latest legal thinking on how you do it …
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NewsReid and 3D combine forces
Reid Architecture has become one of the UK’s 10 largest practices after merging with Scottish rival 3D Architecture.
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NewsFoster profit soars 136% with ‘further rises to come’
Architect pays himself £2.9m and buys the practice’s aircraft after making £5.9m profit
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Metronet looks to reduce workload
Company in dispute with London Underground over cost overruns expected to reach between £750m and £1.2bn by 2010
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Managed to death
A Treasury crackdown on tax avoidance may spell the end for ‘managed service’ companies. Rebecca Power explains what this will mean for the firms that use them
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News‘No approval’ for collapsed building
The cause of a building collapse in Victoria, central London, remained uncertain as Building went to press.
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NewsDavis Langdon to report third successive year of growth
Consultant retains top spot as global turnover reaches £221m for year to April 2007
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Multiplex family sells up after 45 years
Contractor to be sold to asset manager Brookfield for £3.1bn
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NewsCrane collapse firm was warned
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a warning in February to the firm whose crane collapsed in Croydon, south London, last week.
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International sale of safety test sparks new CSCS row
Board fears export of CITB-owned test will encourage unqualified workers to come to the UK
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FeaturesTile-effect cladding
Plastic building products manufacturer Stormking has launched a tile-effect cladding panel suitable for off-site housing applications.
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NewsSo that’s what they look like …
Kingspan reveals the UK’s first net zero-carbon home at BRE’s Offsite2007 event
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NewsDeath race 2007
John Campbell sent in this photo from the South China Morning Post showing labourers demolishing a building in Nanjing.
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FeaturesWestfield at White City: Westway to the world
Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.
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FeaturesReasons to be fearful
So, developers are racing to pour money into City offices and regeneration megaprojects, tender notices are flying out for vast school and social housing renewal programmes, work is threatening to start on the Olympic venues, the mighty Thames Gateway is looming … and everyone is getting worried.
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FeaturesThe mighty bouche
Janet Street-Porter is renowned for having an opinion on absolutely everything and it seems the construction industry is no exception.
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FeaturesWho’s getting their hooks into you?
As order books grow to unfeasible lengths, firms are increasingly desperate to recruit. Unfortunately, they’re all fishing in each other’s pond, with increasingly evil results.
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Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris