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Galliford Try: profit down 50% after merger
Housebuilder Galliford Try this week reported that pre-tax profit had fallen by more than half in the year to June. The group's profit fell to £4.9m as a result of merger costs and a multimillion-pound contract loss in Northamptonshire. The fall comes despite a rise in turnover of 25% to ...
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Bovis Homes predicts bumper second half results
Bovis Homes has told investors that its second half results will be better than the first, despite an 8% jump in interim pre-tax profit.
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Do you dig it or don't you?
The CITB wants to attract more young people into building. So, is its latest poster campaign a real, right on, happening event – or just a bit embarrassing? Building asked the yoof of south London
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Comment
Making the best of PFI
The firms behind PFI hospitals and schools don't have to live with the consequences of bad design, so they aren't interested in it. Its time to change the rules …
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Give us the tools
Regeneration The government is finding it difficult to deliver its regeneration policy. It needs to clear away the bureaucratic obstacles.
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A cure for all ills?
Health and education are the focus of the second in our three-part series on Tony Blair's public spending plans. We examine Labour's £8.5bn schools investment. But of all the government's pledges, its plans to transform the NHS are the most expensive, ambitious and controversial. With PFI and PPP under attack, ...
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A Beginner's guide to health procurement
Department of HealthThe department runs the PFI programme and sets the rules for all other healthcare bodies to follow. In Sold on Health, last year's key report, the NHS was told to overhaul its capital procurement methods to improve design quality, reduce delays and achieve better value. In particular, it ...
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'Hospitals should be like supermarkets'
NHS Estates' acting chief Peter Wearmouth has to please doctors, patients and contractors. How?
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The demonising of PFI
A torrent of negative publicity has painted contractors as greedy and callous. Building weighs up the evidence
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healthcare investment outside england
ScotlandScotland is currently investing nearly half a billion pounds in the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the Scottish NHS. Four new hospitals are complete, with two due to be finished by the end of this year, and another two by the end of 2003. Half of these ...
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Difficult sums
Right you lot, pay attention. If 100 firms bid for government investment of £8.5bn over three years, how many will make as much money as they expect to? Is it (a) all of them, (b) only the ones who know the PFI market, or (c) it depends on the government's ...
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Teachers' pet
Jarvis has established itself as the firm to beat in the education market. Building finds out how
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Comment
A drinking problem
Contractors tempted to forgo a contract and agree things over a pint, be warned. Adjudication won't protect you when you fall out over whose round it is
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Comment
Oh, for a bucket of water
The Fire Precautions Act is a poorly-written piece of poppycock that puts a whole lot of people in a whole lot of danger. It should be sent back to parliament
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Don't plead in vain
If you're claiming an interim payment as a result of variations to contract, be careful how you set out your demand. If you're not clear enough, you won't get paid
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Yankee, go home
Dominic Helps argued that US-style no win, no fee arrangements sit well with adjudication. In fact, he's wrong: they could give all parties a rougher deal
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Features
The water engine
A chance observation in a Moroccan bus gave Charlie Paton an idea that could transform the agriculture of poor and infertile countries around the world. Building finds out how it works
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A suitable standard
Designers are swamped with a host of quality assurance standards, which causes confusion
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Lead Times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald puts brickwork in the spotlight
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Rebuilding lives
Gordon Wordsworth, general manager of Sheffield Rebuild, tells Graeme Demianyk why he decided to prioritise social duty over profit-making