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Design watchdogs to target PFI clients
Architectural watchdog CABE is to draw up a report recommending ways of persuading PFI clients to become more involved in the design process, primarily by encouraging them to enter the prime minister’s Better Public Buildings award.
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Contracts
Balfour wins £470m roadworksContractor RCS, a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty, has won two road maintenance contracts worth £470m. RCS will undertake highways maintenance for North Yorkshire and Hampshire councils. Gleeson gets Finchley planContractor MJ Gleeson has been awarded a £38m design-and-build contract for a cultural centre in Finchley, north London. ...
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Contractors line up for new London bridge
Contractors Sir Robert McAlpine and Norwest Holst are favourites to build the £15.5m Jubilee Bridge in the City of London.
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Try wins £25m contract to refurbish Lakeside centre
Try Construction has clinched a £25m contract to refurbish the Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, south-west Essex.The firm, part of Galliford Try, beat off bids from rivals Balfour Beatty, HBG and Kier to win the scheme for client Capital Shopping Centres. HBG is understood to have come second. The four ...
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Landmark for sale
Landmark for sale: Apartments in the second and final phase of the Greenwich Millennium Village development in east London have just been put on the market. The Becquerel Court scheme is a joint venture between housebuilders Countryside Properties and Taylor Woodrow Capital Developments and government agency English Partnerships. The flats ...
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Involve suppliers at design stage, say trade bodies
Trade bodies and HSE hope research will help establish a best-practice guide for handling materials on site.
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Hochtief rules out UK construction purchase
German construction giant Hochtief has confirmed that it has no intention of acquiring a UK firm.
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Ward Homes' profit jumps 66%
Ward Homes' pre-tax profit has jumped 66% since the company was taken private 18 months ago.
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Taywood goes to City for £250m
Taylor Woodrow has issued bonds worth £250m in order to refinance loans more cheaply.
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The Bickerton affair
Bickerton Construction went from thriving regional contractor to emaciated corpse in a matter of months. Tom Broughton investigates what many creditors suspect to be a very suspicious death …
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Getting your kits off
How Airfix bombers and glue abuse are connected to plastic surgery, the moveable-type revolution, and the way CAD vandalises a child's mind …
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Builder's craic exposed
The dark winter days are upon us and we all need cheering up a bit. So for one week only, Building throws political correctness out of the window, gathers its readers round the hearth and tells tales of the funnier side of site life …
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The roads to freedom
The workplace can be a tyranny. If the customer comes first, workers must come second, and the result is stressed-out, miserable staff. Eleanor Cochrane looks at a scheme to give us our lives back, plus a chance to record your views and an account of a firm that's got it ...
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Five tips on how small firms can help staff juggle work and life
Develop clear guidelines - establish what the procedures are for changing hours, and outline which job roles have scope for flexible working. Clear guidelines will help counter any accusations that some employees appear to have more help than others.Consider the organisation’s culture - sometimes long hours are a necessity when ...
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My word against yours …
Remember the Discain vs Opecprime cause célèbre? Well, it's just been decided in court, and the trial offers an invaluable lesson on how the law really works
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It's a fair ACOP
The HSE has brought out a more comprehensive Approved Code of Practice for site safety. It's better than the previous version and you should get hold of it now
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And that’s final
If you get into a dispute abroad, it will probably go to arbitration. All well and good, but be warned: if you lose, you’ll have trouble appealing …
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FeaturesWorking with Christopher Wren
Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College is arguably the finest collection of early modern buildings in the UK. After being taken over by Greenwich University, it became what must be the most sensitive refurbishment project in Britain. Thomas Lane finds out how it was done.