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Ninth record profit for Kier
Kier has posted record results for the ninth consecutive year, and says the strong performance is set to continue.
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Brand expert becomes MDA head
Top 15 quantity surveyor MDA has appointed a branding and marketing expert as its new chief executive.
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Curzon buys facilities manager Granby
Curzon Holdings, the owner of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman, has bought facilities management company TCL Granby.
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Sir Robert McAlpine leaps to the top in August
Deals worth £113.5m propel contractor up the league table, £50m ahead of nearest rival.
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Meet the new boss
… and the one thing you can say about the supermarket magnates and aerospace high flyers coming in to shake up construction is that they're not the same as the old boss. But are they any better?
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The politics of the PFI
The PFI is not a new idea, but if it is to work, the government must be prepared to fight openly for its preferred policy
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Survival course
As if she hadn't come under enough fire, Zara Lamont braved four days with the army to find out what it could teach construction about getting on in a rough world
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Hell on wheels
The final instalment of our public spending series looks at transport and law and order. On pages 50-51 we ask whether PFI is working in prisons and law courts. But first, Building finds out what's gone wrong with the government's £180bn plan to transform transport
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How Labour lost its way
Steve Norris on why Labour's investment is unlikely to produce a radical improvement of the country's transport network
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What next for the railways?
Mike Grant examines the challenge faced by the Strategic Rail Authority and explains how it intends to set the railway back on track
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Return of the dinosaurs
Once thought of as practically extinct, trams are making a come back as a popular, efficient and safe means of getting around. Trouble is, they're very slow to arrive.
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Court order
PFI prisons are considered a success story, and perhaps courthouses too, but police stations often fail to do justice to their purpose. Martin Building examines the government's spending plans for law and order
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Dinky is the new big
A new short form of subcontract is so small a plasterer will be able to keep it in his back pocket – and it's so simple, there's even a chance he'll understand it
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Hard day's night
Peter Cornell and Justin Williams give a glimpse of the hard slog of real-life mediation. Who's for coffee?
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Get what you want
Even in a win–win situation, one party wins more than the other. How do you ensure it's you?
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ADR stages dramatic comeback
In a function room at the Globe Theatre in London, people are drinking champagne and discussing the play. But this was a drama with a difference: these people are all construction professionals, and they have just been to what amounts to a seminar on mediation, organised by solicitor Campbell Hooper.Another ...
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Solutions R us
Building talks to Karen Gough, the new president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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It's a wrap
It's almost finished. The vast bulk of the 660 steel-grey panels making up the facade of the GLA headquarters are in place, but the unusual shape of the building has brought unique challenges for the cladding specialists.
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Bronzed god
The team building the world's largest statue found designing the cladding a particular challenge. Still, nothing that creating a virtual computer model, building a bespoke foundry and predicting the weather in a thousand years' time couldn't overcome.
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The brick revolution
A brick system that triples the speed of wall construction and does away with the need for a skilled bricklayer, saving both time and money? It could shake the industry to its foundations.