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Enterprise hits warp factor two
Fast-growing building maintenance firm Enterprise has doubled the amount of money it can borrow from its banks to £100m. It intends to use the funds to fuel further expansion
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Kier strikes £70m health and school deals
Contractor Kier last week reached financial close on two PFI projects, together worth £70m, before its interim results on Monday.
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More poor SAPS
You may remember the case of the boilers that weren't of satisfactory quality despite being in perfect working order. Well, the argument's heating up…
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UK directors' buyout rescues HLM from receivers
British architect is bought back as it goes into administrative receivership, two years after it was sold to US firm
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NewsPolice investigate alleged CSCS card scam
Detectives have begun a fraud investigation into an unnamed employment agency after a Building columnist alleged that it was illicitly supplying CSCS
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NewsHalliburton set to invade UK healthcare market
Department of Health tries to persuade US engineering giant to bid for large PFI hospital projects
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Halcrow to pay Iraqis top dollar at its new Basra office
Engineer offers skilled Iraqi workers 40 times the going rate as it prepares to pull western staff out of Iraq
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Sheppard Robson to design £50m Welsh film studio
Architect to work on centrepiece for 130 ha 'Valleywood' development in Llanilid, South Wales
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NewsRogers hits out at Brown forum
The government's proposed construction forum, has come under fire after it emerged that senior industry figures had not been consulted on its formation
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MCG sets up health scheme
The Major Contractors Group will next week launch its occupational health scheme for the construction industry.
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Features
Auntie helps Bovis to top with £530m in February
Bovis Lend Lease also extends lead over Laing in annual tables – now £550m ahead at £1.8bn
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FeaturesPower shift
Remember the rancid system-built slums they put up across the country, from East Kilbride to south Acton? And the people who dressed their children in damp clothes every morning while they waited for the government or the council to get them out? Well this last extract from CABE/RIBA's Housing 2024 ...
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Local lowdown
With increased public spending in the North-east, demand for housing professionals is high. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at what's on offer
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Laing back in black after switch to PFI
Laing is back in the black after transforming itself from a traditional contractor to a PFI investment specialist.
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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FeaturesHappy to be here
As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.
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Labour takes the gloves off
Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.
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CommentGuilty bystanders
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal