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Steel group plans safety checklist
main Contractors will soon be forced to complete a safety checklist before handing over a site to steel contractors.
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Swansea landmark plan unveiled
Proposals HAVE been unveiled to build 1000 luxury beachfront houses and flats in Swansea marina, including a landmark apartment building.
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Contracts
Birse lands £10.8m rail jobBirse has won a £10.8m Railtrack contract to build the new West Coast Rail Traffic Control Centre in Birmingham. It will control all train and signalling operations between London Euston and Crewe.F&G to work on luxury flatsProject and cost manager Faithful & Gould has been appointed ...
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Up and away
BAA has just completed this 10,000 m2 extension to its international departure lounge at Gatwick Airport's South Terminal.
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Construction managers to build Berkeley Group homes
Housebuilder teams up with contractors and construction managers to tackle complex brownfield jobs.
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Aukett boss warns against industry pessimism
But Taywood and BPB say US slowdown is hitting demand for buildings and materials.
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BAA: T5 to get approval this year
BAA said this week that it was confident of getting planning approval for the £2bn Terminal 5 project at Heathrow by the end of the year.
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Parkman aims at flotation
Consulting engineer and asset manager Parkman Group is to float on the stock exchange to raise funds for acquisitions.
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Sharewatch
The saga of feuding lovers AMEY and the City of London continued this week. In the latest development, which would give Brookside a run for its money or rival the latest twist in EastEnders, the support services group launched a bitter recrimination after seeing its share price fall 20% in ...
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Graves ends family ownership
Birmingham-based quantity surveyor Francis Graves intends to offer new shares in the privately-owned family firm to staff in order to raise capital for expansion and acquisitions.
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YJL boosts profit and scouts for buys
Fast-growing contractor YJL has boosted pre-tax profit 50% to £1.5m in the six months to 31 March and said more acquisitions are on the way.
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Output growth stops, says DETR
Construction output stood unchanged at £57.9bn in the year to the end of March, according to the latest figures from the DETR.
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Features
Best show in town
It's on the biggest stage in London, it has audiences of 35,000 a day and it gets wild reviews from all who see it. We report on construction's smash hit.
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Neil Cossons
Ken Livingstone accused English Heritage of jeopardising London's economic future by opposing tall buildings. Now its chief executive is hitting back.
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Dogs in the manger
Everyone agrees that construction must abandon adversarial practices – except for QSs. Why are they so out of step with the rest of the industry?
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Learning difficulties
Prefabrication is no quick-fix solution to the lack of skills in construction, warns a new report. It says the UK's approach to training and innovation is lagging well behind other European countries …
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It ain't what you do, it's where you do it
Mirza & Nacey's 2001 QS fees' survey has uncovered a nation divided, where London-based principals gorge themselves on £65 an hour while their northern colleagues make do on £35. Are you in the right place?
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Rapid response force
The DETR is consulting on how to make adjudication fairer and more effective. There's still time to let it know what you think
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Fuzzy logic
How far should consultants' drawings go in telling builders how to do their job? In theory a long way; in practice there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
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Minding the gap
Under the PFI, clients don't start paying until a facility is ready for use. The problem for builders is that this may be some time after the building has been completed