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Morrison wins an £8m doubleContractor Morrison has won two contracts worth £8m for Forest Holidays – an arm of the Forestry Commission – to upgrade holiday parks in Strathyre, Perthshire and North Yorkshire.Citex to manage Diana projectCitex Project Services has been picked by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport ...
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CITB launches safety software
The Construction Industry Training Board is launching a computer program to help construction firms monitor and audit health and safety information.
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NewsCream of UK architects unveil designs for Fourth Grace
Foster, Rogers, Cullinan and Alsop this week reveal their jaw-dropping masterplans for the key Merseyside scheme, on display to the public at Liverpool's Walker Gallery until Sunday. Here's what each are proposing.
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NewsReady to Wear
Ready to Wear: Work has started on this £55m redevelopment of the north bank of the River Wear in Sunderland. Designed by Mosedale Gillatt Architects, the project will involve the conversion of the Barbican building at St Peter's Wharf into loft apartments. The first of four phases will comprise 60 ...
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Plaudits for audits
Post-Enron, is the annual audit worth it? Yes, if it's used as a business-wide health check
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Five ways to tackle Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects one in 10 people during the winter months. Good lighting at work can help counter the symptoms of SAD – which include headaches and depression – and can increase employee productivity all round.Discuss the problem Ask staff, or consult an expert, to identify workspaces that ...
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Don't ask, don't get
It's that crucial moment in an interview when you get your chance to ask something … Victoria Madine suggests 10 questions that are bound to impress
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Wimpey debt deal with US
The UK's largest housebuilder, Wimpey, has taken on £230m in cheap, long-term loans from US banks to reduce interest payments.
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Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider
Taylor Woodrow has appointed an industry outsider as the group’s finance director.
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Bowe sets up PFI bid service
Former Citex facilities management boss Peter Bowe has started a consultancy aimed at reducing bid costs for PFI and public–private partnership bidders.
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Minority report
Weighty reports are all very well, but they're not the best way to get firms to reach out to women and ethnic minorities. We need positive recruitment practices
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FeaturesPenalty clauses
Signing up with a football club client? Watch out for prima donna chairmen and financial trick shots. Phil Clark reports from the sidelines on the pitfalls of building a stadium.
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FeaturesA Man and his tools
BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.
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FeaturesCubic feat
Architect SpacelabUK has designed a stark, geometrically pure house that sits on the Cambridgeshire countryside like a square drawn on a very flat line …
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What's wrong with simple?
The Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act makes collateral warranties and their bureaucratic complications redundant. Yet some lawyers seem reluctant to see them go
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The great unknown
Not knowing the law used to be no excuse for anything. But now the courts are telling us that it can be a helpful point to raise in a contractual dispute
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FeaturesSoho fabulous
Lifschutz Davidson's swanky revamp of 20 Soho Square should appeal to the area's media types – and, like the Ab Fab girls, it has squeezed a lot into a small space …
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Costly insurance cover leaves subcontractors feeling exposed
Insurance premiums have risen by up to 500% in the last year and many subcontractors are finding it hard to bear the costs.