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High flyer
Geoffrey Reid Associates has unveiled this competition-winning design for a £50m business airport at Farnborough, Hampshire.
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A credit to the City
Merrill Lynch's new City HQ is the biggest building you'll never see – its groundscraping design has satisfied the needs of modern bankers and the heritage lobby
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Jarvis set to ditch outsourcing subsidiary
Future of corporate PFI arm Odyssey in doubt after it fails to win a single contract in 14 months.
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Amec may retain holding in Watson
Steel industry sources believe that Amec may retain a minority holding in steelwork contractor Watson Steel if plans to sell the business to structural steelwork specialist William Hare are successful.
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Takeover bid for Tay Homes
Housebuilder Country & Metropolitan is considering mounting an audacious bid for Tay Homes, a rival twice its size.
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Costain's new boss speaks out
New Costain chief executive Stuart Doughty is hoping for operational freedom from the group's three controlling shareholders, but said he was "mindful" of their concerns.
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Atkins earmarks £55m for IT investment
WS Atkins will spend about £55m this year on IT maintenance, upgrades and new programmes.
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£23m coup thrusts Welsh contractor into top 20
Watkins Jones & Sons hit the big time in May, and Bovis dislodges Sir Robert McAlpine from top spot.
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Making tracks
Michael Grant, chief executive of the Strategic Rail Authority, has the Herculean task of upgrading the UK's network. What chance does he have of pulling it off?
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Stepping on the gas
BP man Struan Robertson is the first outsider to run the Wates' family concern in its 104-year history, and he's driving forward something of a quiet revolution.
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What a shower!
The Tories' performance in the election was embarrassing, hopeless, abysmal – which isn't surprising when you look at the calibre of those in charge
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The joy of decks
CZWG has taken the idea of 'streets in the sky' from the dustbin of history, repaired it and painted it red – and it wants us to join the fun. We report from the frontline of a sociable revolution.
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Are you doing it right?
Everyone wants to achieve best practice, but how do you know if you have? One way is to use the Construction Best Practice Programme's online test. We asked three firms to put themselves under the Eganscope and report how they scored
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Margins of error
Cut-throat tendering is doing no good to the industry. Why do firms undersell themselves?
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Five ways to make partnering work
Do you really need a partner?Do not enter into a partnering arrangement just because it is fashionable. Undertake a value management exercise to see whether effective change can be internalised: carry out an audit of your staff, resources and premises. You may find that you do not need to partner ...
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The can-carriers
A spate of rulings on project managers have disproved the adage that they are mere paper pushers. Their role is wide-ranging – and so are their liabilities
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We'll all be losers
The Construction Industry Board thinks each side should pay its own costs in adjudication. This is all wrong and could even result in more cases ending up in court
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More bilge from Europe?
When Thames Water did nothing to stop a home being flooded by sewage, the common law of England was found wanting. The Human Rights Act mopped up the mess
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Legal letters
There is a place for retentionSir: As a project manager with a local authority, dealing with work ranging in price from hundreds to millions of pounds, I feel I must comment on Rudi Klein's article attacking cash retentions (4 May, page 57). Although I agree with a lot of what ...