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Where will it all end?
Enron's collapse should encourage construction firms to ask themselves a few hard questions
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Five office gadgets to buy online
Get organised with Memo Mouse. With a slot for written messages and the capability to record voice messages, it looks cute and will help you meet all those deadlines. Available for £19.99, from www.gobazaar.co.ukBecome more popular with a Massaging Pen. Also a great little stress beater, this gizmo writes like ...
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Third time lucky?
All right, the draft delay protocol is far from perfect, but it contains some valuable advice and with sufficient improvements, could be something to welcome
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Heading for cover
When it comes to professional indemnity cover, a shift towards project insurance could iron out a current anomaly, while whole life insurance could be the future
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Local lowdown
Continuing our regular regional series, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose puts the job market in the central belt of Scotland under the microscope
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FeaturesAppointments
HousebuildersLaing Homes has promoted Sarah Bailey (left) to managing director of the North Home Counties branch, making her the first female MD in the housebuilder's 150-year history. She joined the company as sales and marketing director in 1999. Also at Laing Homes, Sue Marjason, previously a cabin crew attendant at ...
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Industry rankings
Welcome to Building’s annual league of the top 100 contractors and housebuilders in the UK. The tables clearly show another great year for construction, with total turnover, pre-tax profit and margins all breaking records.
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NewsHousebuilders face double whammy on social housing
Oxford council raises affordable housing quota to 70% as Housing Corporation issues funding warning.
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City panic hits services firms after Amey profit warning
Shares in support services firms plunge after Amey warns its results will be affected by delays to Tube PPP.
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20 ways to make tall buildings safer
This week, exactly 10 months after the collapse of the World Trade Centre, the Institution of Structural Engineers has published guidance that it hopes will mean a disaster of 11 September proportions will never happen again. Its recommendations on how to help buildings withstand a terrorist attack will affect existing ...
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FeaturesMetal Michelangelo
Bill Tustin is a huge Sid James-soundalike with the mind of an angel and the beard of a gnome who can build and price structures as complex as the London Eye in his head while making clothing out of the bowels of journalists. Marcus Fairs spends a happy afternoon being ...
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Assign! Assign!
If you are the beneficiary of a collateral warranty, be sure it has been properly transferred to you – otherwise you may find yourself unable to make a claim
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Features'You had the contents of two 110-storey buildings in a pile'
When the World Trade Centre towers collapsed on 11 September 2001, the world was devastated – and then demanded to know how it had happened. So Chicago-based skyscraper expert William Baker was sent on a reconnaissance mission to ground zero, to assist in the clear-up operation and report back. Here ...
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Wates tightens up on safety after HSE site prosecution
Contractor promises to introduce changes after inspectors take firm to court over safety lapses at London site.
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Aedas staff doubles after merger
Top 10 architect Aedas AHR has nearly doubled its workforce in the UK after a merger with Birmingham practice TCN.
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Prowtings buy 75% stake in Banner Homes
The Prowting family made a shock return to housebuilding this week when it bought a 75% stake in privately owned Banner Homes.
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Contractor Stenoak goes into receivership
Roads contractor Stenoak was this week placed in receivership, two weeks after its shares were suspended on the alternative investment market.
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M4I to help Labour keep its public service promises
Movement for Innovation plans ‘task groups’ to help government build schools and hospitals before election.
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Prescott backs down on Part E
LObbying by the House Builders’ Federation has led John Prescott’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to relax proposals for noise regulations.
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NewsWates and Gleeson fall out over Knightsbridge station
Refurbishment of London Tube station to be delayed six months as contractors tread on each other's toes.