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Transport for London
Procurement policyIn terms of roads construction, London is split into five areas managed by three stewards – WSP and Parkman each manage two areas, and the London Borough of Camden manages one. Routine work in these five areas has been let under five-year term contracts, which run to 2007. The ...
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United Utilities
Procurement policyEngineering services are provided by Montgomery Watson Harza, which liaises with the company's Process Design Group to help ensure that signature design and asset standardisation is obtained. To rationalise the supply chain of strategic equipment, the water company has entered into 42 term contracts for the design, supply and ...
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Wessex Water Services
Procurement policyWessex Water has set up a partnership with Montgomery Watson Harza, called MWH Wessex. This will be responsible for delivering about £390m of investment in water and sewerage improvements over the three-year period to March 2005. Wessex Water holds 51% of this joint venture.MWH Wessex has entered into alliances ...
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Whitbread
Procurement policyStrategic partnering is the main procurement route used by Whitbread, including for its hotels, Brewers Fayre and Costa operations. Design-and-build contracts are also used occasionally.Current and future projectsWhitbread's transformation from a brewing and leisure conglomerate into a pure leisure and hotel group is proving successful. While the Marriott/Swallow hotel ...
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Construction firms face loss of 1000 key staff as call-ups start for Iraq
Industry braced for disruption as reservists begin to leave their construction posts and join their regiments.
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Unions call for 64% rise in pay over three years …
… but employers offer 10% as the latest round of the national minimum wage agreement gets under way.
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FeaturesBattle of Trafalgar
The pigeons have left Trafalgar Square, but a new menace has arrived – contractors causing chaos. And yet the British public has such low expectations of builders, it hasn't logged a single complaint. With this going on, what hope do we have of attracting talent to our industry?
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NewsFirms face loss of 1000 key staff as call-ups start for Iraq
Industry braced for disruption as managers begin to leave their posts and join their regiments.
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NewsLend Lease aims to stop the rot with board shake-up
Giant Australian developer switches key personnel and merges divisions prior to announcing huge loss.
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Comment
Take this for your trouble
Can you claim for all the hassle time spent sorting out a problem caused by someone else? Well, a recent case in the Scottish courts may provide an answer
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NewsPidgley Jr unrepentant after bid for Berkeley collapses
Son of Berkeley chief says he has warchest of £1bn to scoop up another big housebuilder and take it private.
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Global downturn hits Skanska
Skanska's global turnover and profit levels fell in 2002, as the worldwide economic slowdown hit the order books of the world's largest construction firm, writes Matthew Richards.
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Dead men tell no tales
We have a death, an explosion and some suspect information. Thank the House of Lords for making it easier to prove whodunnit
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Government attacked over Constructionline
The vetting service Constructionline is proving ineffective because the government is failing to provide support, according to Peter Elston, chairman of the Construction Confederation
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NewsBoom time for fit-out, says Bluu
Construction group Connaught said this week that it had bulging order books for the fit-out and social housing divisions.
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Unions call for 64% rise in pay over three years …
… but employers offer 10% as the latest round of the national minimum wage agreement gets under way.
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NewsRogers, Hadid, Alsop, Farrell Cullinan, Grimshaw: No war
Lord Rogers spearheads architects' public opposition to attack on Iraq with march and open letter to Blair.
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HSE moves to tighten tower crane safety rules
Safety body aims to create tighter standards for testing and use following Canary Wharf tragedy in 2000.
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Confusion reigns at St Pancras
A question mark hangs over the £16m fit-out of one of the rail stations at the centre of the regeneration of the King's Cross St Pancras area, writes Sally Mesner.