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Contracts
Balfour wins £120m water dealContractor Balfour Beatty has won a £120m, three-year contract to upgrade Yorkshire Water's clean water distribution network.Mansell's £2.1m hat trickMansell's office in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear has won three contracts with Home Housing Association worth £2.1m. They include a £1.2m housing scheme in Bradford.£2.5m college job ...
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NewsJack the Dipper
Jack the Dipper: This stairwell was joint winner of the Hot Dip Galvanizing Awards for 2002, as judged by the Galvanizers Association. Designed by Plasma Studio, the Silversmith's Workshop refurbishment in London was praised for its creation of a translucent spiral landscape. Contractor was Arco Grating, steel contractor was Advanced ...
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RICS: Surveyors to take on accounting work
Chartered surveyors are likely to take on more work traditionally handled by accountants, according to research published by the RICS.
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Laing changes PFI rules
Laing revealed this week that its pre-tax profit will be £2m lower than the £47m predicted, as a result of changes in the way the group accounts for PFI bid costs.
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Crest construction arm plunges into red
Crest Nicholson's construction division Pearce, put up for sale this year, has posted a £1.4m loss for the six months to 30 April.
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Emcor Drake & Scull profit rises 41%
Emcor Drake & Scull announced this week that its pre-tax profit rose 41% in the year ending 31 December 2001.
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Chester police escort HBG to top spot in May
Dutch contractor signs deals worth £126m while Sir Robert McAlpine and Bovis dominate yearly table.
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FeaturesWhere there's a mill …
Gateshead's Baltic centre gallery is the offspring of an impoverished but visionary council and an unemployed architect who designed it in his bedroom. So what else is special about it?
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Overseas aid
Far from sponging off the welfare state, immigrant labour – perhaps even when it is illegal – is helping to keep the British economy in robust health
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The cricket test
It probably isn't a coincidence that England's cricketers started performing after they were given guaranteed places. And therein lies a moral for construction …
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FeaturesHanging out with the boys
Erica Lay, project manager at BAA, draws on her on-site experiences to offer some advice to girls in the industry
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Having a bawl
If a construction contract was signed before the construction act came into force, but varied after, can a party to it be dragged screaming into an adjudication?
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Just cool it
A draft delay protocol is supposed to take the heat out of the contentious area of delay. But as it stands, it could simply makes things worse
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Same old precedent
In the old adversarial world, sneaky contractual devices were part of the territory. But such things are soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history – aren't they?
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Just the job
Turner & Townsend quantity surveyor Tanya Jeffrey on how the latest leg of a globe-trotting career has taken her to a silicon chip plant in tropical Borneo
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsHochtief has announced the appointment of Stephen Ives as managing director of Hochtief (UK) Construction. He takes over from Leslie Forrest.Gleeson's rail subsidiary, Gleeson MCL, has promoted Danny Duggan to deputy managing director. He joined the company in 1984 as a site agent.HousebuildersEdward Ware Homes has created an in-house architecture ...
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Women in construction
Girlzone - A visit to the small construction college in Kent that is demolishing the industry’s macho image
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Use unemployed before immigrants, Whitehall told
Industry blocks seasonal migrant worker scheme and presses for more government funding to train over-25s.