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News'Project management failures' blamed for Diana memorial costs
Public accounts committee reveals that annual maintenance cost of Hyde Park memorial has doubled to £250,000.
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NewsRok boosts profit 38%
Contractor's maintenance division helps drive turnover 12% as 2005 acqusitions bed in.
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Morgan Est plugs in to £105m electrical contract
Morgan Sindall's infrastructure services division will service Central England electrical distribution system.
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Wolseley grows 26% in six months
Announcing interim results, Wolseley reveals turnover has increased from £5.3bn to £6.7bn. Pre-tax profit rises 16%, from £296m to £346m.
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NewsAlsop to sell practice to SMC
Will Alsop is in talks to sell his business to AIM-listed architect SMC, it emerged at the weekend.
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NewsHow I lost five tonnes in two weeks
Following a session with Carbon Coach Dave Hampton, Mace director Gary France vowed to leave his gaz guzzling 4x4 on the front drive. Find out how the carbon diet is going one month later.
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NewsPaper round: Stratford City stumbles out of the blocks
A row threatening to stall the delivery of Stratford City hits the headlines in this weekend's newspapers.
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Balfour Beatty lands £150m Hong Kong office job
Balfour Beatty's Hong Kong subsidiary has won a £150m contract to build a 70-storey office building in the Chinese city.
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NewsHeron set to swoop on Gleeson's housing division
Gerald Ronson faces competition from Gladedale and Miller Group for £160m-turnover business.
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The new balance of power
A dispute arose under a construction contract between the appellant architects, Roberts and the respondent developer, Parkcare. The construction contract incorporated the model adjudication procedure published by the Construction Industry Council subject to an amendment to clause 29 made by the RIBA standard conditions. The amended clause 29 provided that ...
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Heron set to swoop on Gleeson's housing division
Gerald Ronson faces competition from Gladedale and Miller Group for £160m-turnover business
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NewsBAA rejects Ferrovial offer
Airport operator says it 'had no hesitation' in rejecting the conditional cash offer, which valued BAA at £8.75bn
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Skanska appoints Bush aide to oversee PPP expansion
Karl Reichelt, a former aide to US president George Bush, is one of two vice presidential appointments to contractor's international PPP division.
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NewsFirms shun drug sector as extremist threats escalate
Contractors refuse to work on projects unrelated to laboratories as ALF issues new threat to Oxford project.
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NewsFirms shun drug sector as extremist threats escalate
Contractors refuse to work on projects unrelated to laboratories as ALF issues new threat to Oxford project
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NewsMy best ever MIPIM
As well as a constant hangover, Building's news editor also picked up a decent amount of scurrilous gossip at the Cannes property fest. Some of which we are able to publish in his blog.
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Ken signs up green architects
London mayor Ken Livingstone this week signed up two top architects to help set tough BedZED-style targets, as he called on UK construction to make sustainability the key priority.
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Amey doubles profit to £52m
Turnover tops £1bn at support services firm as 2006 starts with big contract wins.
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NewsJudge conducts fact-finding mission at Wembley
Mr Justice Jackson views site to prepare trial between Cleveland Bridge and Multiplex