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NewsKingspan in talks to buy insulation board maker
Construction products firm Kingspan Group says discussions with Hytherm/Xtratherm Group are ongoing but insists the acquisition is not a foregone conclusion.
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NewsLDA prepares to smoke out last of the Olympic objectors
Owner of salmon smokery will be among businesses objecting to compulsory purchase orders as public enquiry begins.
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NewsConstruction minister Alun Michael sacked in reshuffle
Tony Blair also enlarges ODPM and changes its name to Department for Communities and Local Government.
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NewsCarillion wins £320m contract at Barts
Sovereign Hospital Services will provide services in a deal worth £30m per year for 11 years.
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NewsRedrow plans 1250 homes for Bristol
Housebuilder buys 77 acres in the north of the city for £59m, to be developed over 10 years.
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NewsJohn Prescott sacked from his ODPM ministry
Cabinet reshuffle sees Ruth Kelly take on regeneration responsibilities as she replaces Prescott who remains deputy prime minister.
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NewsMy witness is bigger than yours
Our blogger comes face to face with Ashley Muldoon in court seven and concedes that, yes, he is taller than Cleveland rival Brian Rogan.
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NewsBowcott tribunal reveals £200m hole in Amec's books
Former construction managing director reaches settlement - but not before exposing state of firm's accounts.
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FeaturesForget the fox in a box - Here's worsley Mesnes
In February, Building published a feature about Dr Stephen Fox, a Wigan GP who'd been operating out of a rundown prefab for 11 years. The article claimed Dr Fox had been failed by the LIFT programme. Wigan's NHS trust then replied with an angry letter claiming we'd given a one-sided ...
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Comment
Without warning
The respondent, Guinness was the majority shareholder in a UK company, CPL. The appellants, Kanoria commenced arbitration proceedings in India against Guinness and CPL, claiming that CPL had failed to pay a sum of money to Kanoria under a business agreement subject to Indian law. At the time Kanoria ...
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NewsBDP plans parliamentary wind turbine
Wind turbine could be installed in grounds of Houses of Parliament in a bid to reduce energy consumption.
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NewsLondon city academies set to breach £25m budgets
Consultants say average cost of capital's 60 planned schools has risen to £30m because of problematic sites.
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FeaturesDangerous liaisons
Bucknall Austin is about to join the list of consultants that have set sail on global ventures with foreign partners. But some of these have sunk amid accusations of rule breaking, client nabbing or just plain boredom. Josh Brooks asks whether the game is worth the candle.
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FeaturesRevved up Wright
UN Studio's Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart takes the spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and adds about 1000 horsepower
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CommentWas Ellis right on Wallis?
The Wallis adjudication turned on whether expert evidence was relevant, and whether there was time to investigate it within the 28 day limit. This is how it went
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CommentGet your head round this
Jack Lemley is to run Olympic projects under the NEC3 standard form, about which there is ‘massive ignorance' in the industry. So how can it wise up?
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CommentAll fall down
Doug Masson is a construction lawyer who happened to be walking past Jurys Inn hotel as 15 floors of scaffolding collapsed. Here he recalls the tragic events of that day …