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FeaturesThe severed alliance
Back in 2004 it looked as though social housing firm Mears had picked a dream team. Bob Holt and Stuart Black, the bruiser and the wunderkind, were together at the helm of a City darling. So why did Black walk?
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CommentA great leap forwards
Over the past nine months it has been easy to dismiss David Miliband’s carbon rhetoric as that of a fairytale emperor convinced that his invisible clothes were the finest in the land.
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NewsBRE unveils five-year plan to double turnover to £80m
Surprise expansion programme to include restructuring, organic growth and acquisitions
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News‘Urban village’ to be built on former military training site
John McAslan to oversee conversion of Woolwich listed buildings and construction of new-build
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Amec and Costain hit by multimillion-pound losses
Contractors post losses of £109m and £62m respectively following last year’s writedowns
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NewsIndustry praises plan for carbon reduction law
CPA and RIBA welcome bill that would bind government to 60% emissions cuts by 2050
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NewsRogers pulls out of Olympic velopark
Richard Rogers Partnership has ruled itself out of any large venues at the 2012 games
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CommentThe green mile
The road to a sustainable future is long and hard, with tricky obstacles and high costs along the way. Here Tom Bloxham suggests how the government could lead by example
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CommentPulling a fast one
Tony Bingham A court in Scotland was asked to give summary judgment against a builder. The judge refused because he said it was too soon to make a binding decision. What would the adjudicator have done?
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NewsInterserve takes £43m hit after financial scandal
Support services firm to stay in industrial market despite taking hit over ‘financial irregularities’
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NewsPathfinders fight for funding
Report shows programme has attracted developers in areas that had been avoided for decades
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Jowell set to announce final cost of Games this week
As Building went to press, intense negotiations were continuing between the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and the government over which of them would manage the contingency funds for the Games.
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Key staff leave Treasury PFI unit
Three staff to leave private finance unit over the next two months
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Comment
Let’s talk tactics
Part 36 of the rules covering offers to settle litigation will change next month. From 6 April you will no longer be obliged to tie up a chunk of cash for months on end
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NewsGleeson Building makes it into the black
Eighteen months after its management buyout, Gleeson Building is about to declare an increased profit
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NewsShuttleworth given crucial schools role
Cabe asks architect to recruit 30-strong panel to ratchet up standards
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Ikea’s flatpack homes to go ahead despite Cabe hostility
Gateshead scheme wins planning approval regardless of watchdog’s ‘significant reservations’
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CommentIt’s quiet – but is it too quiet?
It’s odd, says Steven Williams, but even though PFI schemes are invariably complicated and expensive, few seem to end up in court. So why is that? And how long will it last?