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HBF in last-ditch bid to lobby mayor
Housebuilders makes eleventh-hour attempt to persuade GLA housing taskforce to listen to its views on 50% social housing rules in London.
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'Listen to contractors and craftsmen,' urges Lipton
CABE chairman tells Design Build Foundation conference that clients need to respect specialists' expertise.
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City welcomes new broom at Wimpey
Sudden resignation of lifelong company man Dennis Brant makes way for former Rugby Group boss.
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Bellway grief as City ignores results
North-eastern housebuilder Bellway has called on the City to raise its share-price rating after again turning in record results. Pre-tax profit rose 31% to £89.1m for the year to 31 July, with operating margins increasing from 14.5% to 15.1% and turnover going up 26% to £634m. But asked about Bellway's ...
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Cyril Sweett buys again
Construction consultant Cyril Sweett has completed its second South-west takeover in quick succession by acquiring Bristol QS Banks Wood & Partners. All of Banks Wood's seven staff, including its partner, Gregg Mannell, will be joining Sweett. This brings the number of surveyors and project managers at Sweett's Bristol office up ...
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Anderson quits Bovis Lend Lease
Bovis director leaves job with Australian contractor to join Land Securities' property division six months after taking up new role.
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Strong results at Gleeson
THE preliminary year-end results from MJ Gleeson show strong growth in profit and turnover, despite a drop in contracting margins and problems on a number of design-and-build contracts. Group turnover rose 17.3% to £349.6m in the year ended 30 June and pre-tax profit jumped 20.5% to £16.1m. The share price ...
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Fairview renews buyout bid
Senior Executives at housebuilder Fairview has launched round two of its proposed management buyout, after retreating from the move in July. A team led by chairman Dennis Cope has told the remaining directors and Fairview's financial adviser, Close Brothers, that it is prepared to offer 170p a share, valuing the ...
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Miller picks up Crest sites
Edinburgh-based Miller Group has boosted its north of England housebuilding operations by acquiring two sites and two projects in progress from Crest Homes (Northern), part of Crest Nicholson. Harrogate-based Crest Homes (Northern) will close as soon as work on two further sites is completed. The £30m deal is Miller Group's ...
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Gleeds signs up for e-business
QS Gleeds has formed an alliance with Building Information Warehouse, an application service provider, to create a European-wide web-based procurement and project management system. Gleeds will deploy the system in its offices throughout Europe, and promote web-based supply chains and management to clients as a means of saving money and ...
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Portal to aim at housebuilders
Mercadium, a new e-commerce venture, is targeting UK housebuilders as the first clients to sign up to its construction portal. Director Jerome Losson said the firm saw this group as the ideal first users of the portal as they were likely to make use of the whole range of services ...
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Amey's detention centre captures top spot
One £80m immigrant processing centre wins the September stakes but HBG stays on top of annual league.
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Ken's half way house
Ken Livingstone has threatened to veto housing schemes unless half of the units are affordable. And he means it. But with the best will in the world, can housebuilders rise to the challenge?
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'The most energy efficient building ever'
Bennetts Associates' £22m Wessex Water headquarters is such a triumph of green design that it's better than the BRE's idea of as good as it gets. Building was given a sneak preview.
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Renaissance man
Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.
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Prestige doesn't pay
First person An architect with a stunning building concept a great job, right? Wrong. British builders just won't take the risk.
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Now arrived from Brussels
The big red-tape machine in Brussels is still churning out directives for our benefit. But do they work? And are you affected?
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Glowing panes
The brief: design a glass wall for the Science Museum's Wellcome Wing to cast a blue glow from outside, in any conditions, with no moving parts. Was it even possible?
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Feeling the pinch
Can you lift another builder's design or design features into your building? Yes, you can just so long as you copy the ideas and not the expression of those ideas.
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Indecent proposals
Ann Minogue's column on the new standard form of subcontract for use on government work the GC/Works Subcontract challenged the Constructors Liaison Group to a tempered debate. It begins here.