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Taywood to retain construction arms
Taywood denies that building businesses will be dropped following £535m Bryant takeover.
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Mott cements link with Australian engineer
Consultant Mott MacDonald is to increase its global presence through an alliance with Australian engineer Connell Wagner.
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Office market set to run into buffers
Report predicts that commercial and industrial output will dip for three years as rate of UK economic growth falls.
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QS breaks 200 years of male rule
George Corderoy & Co has appointed its first female managing partner in its 200-year history.
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Cape shares plunge after profit warning
SHARES in fire protection products company Cape fell 13% after it announced that full-year results would be lower than expected because of continuing losses.
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Amec sets up new FM arm
Contractor Amec has set up a pharmaceutical facilities division with its French associate, electrical services company Spie.
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Skanska profit up 4%
The operating profit of Swedish contractor Skanska has increased 4% to £514m for the year ending 31 December 2000.
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Wolseley sells subsidiary
Building materials group Wolseley has sold its boiler and burner making business for £10m.
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FD becomes Wilson deputy
Housebuilder Wilson Bowden has announced the promotion of finance director Ian Robertson to deputy group chief executive. Robertson will continue to keep his FD role.
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Academic joins Halcrow
Professor Roger Flanagan, construction management and engineering professor at the University of Reading, has been appointed non-executive director of Halcrow Group.
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Features
Getting the Tube to work
Capitalist scum, Red Ken, the Hatfield crash, interminable waits, dirt and misery. The saga over the part-privatisation of the Tube has it all. But at last there could be light at the end of the tunnel …
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If you think it's bad here…
In the second of Building's safety series in the run-up to John Prescott's summit, we look across the Channel to see how Britain's site death record compares with the rest of Europe.
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John White
On the rugby pitch and in the City, Persimmon's chief executive has a tough reputation. And as he tackles Beazer to create the UK's largest housebuilder, he'll need it.
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Comment
Not-so-great court
First person - The British Museum's Great Court opened to critical acclaim, but it's a big let-down, and the reading room is far worse.
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Miralles' last laugh
Part imaginative conservation project, part crazy new build, Utrecht town hall is a fitting tribute to its late architect.
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We'd like to build the world a house
Özdemir and Sheena Keskin have spent 15 years developing the Termo House. They say the fast, easy-to-build and eco-friendly system will provide low-cost housing for millions around the world.
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The pinnacle, limehouse basin, london
Products - A smoke-detection system for saunas, plus The spec on the pinnacle of the Limehouse Basin development in London Docklands.
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Comment
Eek a mouse!
Process engineering work falls outside the scope of the Construction Act, so adjudicators would have no jurisdiction in a dispute involving process giant ABB – or would they?
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Adjudication on trial
There are strong arguments to support the view that the Human Rights Act does apply to adjudication. If that really is the case, does it mean that the whole process will have to be abandoned?