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Redrow rejects consolidation
Housebuilder Redrow ruled itself out of the sector's takeover frenzy this week, saying participation would not offer best value for its shareholders.
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Results
Aggregate turnover leaps 22%International quarry and aggregates group Aggregate Industries reported turnover up 22% for the year to 31 December 2000. It rose from £934m in 1999 to £1.13bn. Operating profit increased 19%, from £125m to £149m.WYG turnover up 19%Multidisciplinary consulting engineer and project manager White Young Green showed a ...
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The knight behind the portcullis
Portcullis House has generated countless headlines, but its architect, Sir Michael Hopkins, has featured in very few of them. So who is this powerful yet elusive figure?
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Rethinking partnering
Colin Harding - Forget meaningless buzzwords, it's time for the industry to come to terms with the Egan reforms and work together in a genuine spirit of partnership
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Under starters orders
Regeneration In the first of a new series, Chris Brown explains how European bureaucracy is stifling the British industry's attempts to kick-start the urban renaissance
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How to survive MIPIM
Heading off to Cannes next week for the MIPIM property fair? If you want to keep your cred and be seen at all the coolest hang-outs, you'd better read this first
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Brand new sports kit
At last, a solution to poorly designed lottery-funded leisure facilities – an off-the-peg sports hall that's cheap and cheerful
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Is this the best boss in construction?
Ken Dalton runs Oscar Faber, a successful, if unglamorous, engineering company that has just been voted the best employer in the whole of UK construction. Eloise Seddon finds out what makes its staff such happy bunnies.
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A school of one's own
Richard Saxon - explains how Building Design Partnership became a PFI consortium
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Five things you ought to know about limited liability partnerships
What is it?A limited liability partnership is a hybrid of a limited company and a partnership, and comes into force on 6 April. It combines the freedom and managerial flexibility of the former with the limited liability and accounting transparency of the latter, providing the best of both worlds.Who is ...
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Watch what you say
Ann Minogue - Project managers should take care not to say something in post-tender negotiations that turns out to be untrue – it's a whole new area of potential liability
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Playing for both sides
Tony Bingham - An adjudicator turns into a mediator to settle a dispute, and then turns back into an adjudicator when things go sour … but has he compromised his impartiality?
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A question of trust
Richard Davis - If a contractor and client set up a construction trust to protect subcontractors and it is subsequently cancelled, is the contractor liable for breach of trust?
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How to pick a fight
Anthony Morgan - Contractors desperately need a reliable "ready reckoner" to assess the merits of different forms of dispute resolution – before they get in too deep
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Twin peaks
Despite the disasters, delays and last year's crane tragedy that left three men dead, the race to complete Britain's second tallest buildings is nearing completion. The twin monoliths that will be HSBC and Citigroup's HQs, now jostle for space in the London skyline
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The 30-second guide to combined heat and power plants
The government is so convinced of the benefits of combined heat and power technology that it is giving tax breaks to those who use it.
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The right stone
Nick Schumann - How to prevent a disaster when specifying natural materials
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Lead times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald analyses in detail movements in the market for mechanical and electrical contractors.
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Dear Robert
This month, is it always a good idea to move to a better paid job, and which should you choose: a company car or a car allowance?