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White Young Green eyes overseas buy
Engineer wants “large acquisition” to boost international expansion strategy.
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VHE says it is back in the black
Land reclamation contractor VHE Holdings claims to have turned the corner since it recorded a £7.8m loss in the year to 31 March.Speaking at the firm’s annual general meeting, chairman Mike Laycock said: “All our operating companies are now profitable. We have a strong order book of £31m and are ...
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Midas doubles profit
South-west contractor Midas Group has doubled its annual pre-tax profit to £860 000.Turnover for the year to 30 April stood at £71m. Midas, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing construction firms in the region, hopes to make £5m profit by 2004.Chief executive Steve Hindley attributed the company’s performance ...
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Materials firms’ share prices slump
City takes fright at rising energy costs and sells shares in BPB, RMC, Hanson, Wolseley and Aggregate Industries.
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Sweett merger with Bristol QS
Rapidly growing consultant Cyril Sweett has merged with cost consultant Gordon Harris Partnership South West, and is aiming to complete another purchase in the coming weeks.The deal is part of Cyril Sweett’s expansion programme, which has seen the company grow from six offices two years ago to 11 offices today. ...
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Allen buys back £5m with spare cash
Contracting and tool-hire firm Allen is returning £5m to shareholders through a share buy-back programme.The scheme is the latest move in a burst of corporate activity by Allen. Last week, the firm announced that it would either sell or close G Pearce, its non-specialist civil engineering subsidiary.Announcing the latest move, ...
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Under siege
Concern is mounting across the industry over the Defence Estates prime contract. Accusations are flying that it is simply a way of offloading risk. Construction is gearing up to go to war.
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Cheque mate
The grand master behind the Morrison-Anglian tie-up was not Sir Fraser Morrison. Here’s how younger brother Gordon brokered the lucrative deal and stepped into the limelight.
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Comment
The design decade
Designers won’t have to wait much longer to become a fully integrated and properly paid part of the team.
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Not a con, an icon
A theme park? 178 tennis courts? Hi-tec office space? Whatever you do with the dome, don’t dismantle it.
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High society
Two innovatively designed, high-density housing schemes in London Docklands fit nicely with Lord Rogers' urban vision – except for their quarter-of-a-million-pound price tag.
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Ocean Wharf
The elliptical 12-storey shaft of Ocean Wharf stands as a stylish modern bookend at the end of a row of new housing developments on the riverfront in London Docklands. Like Limehouse Basin, Ocean Wharf is developed by a suburban housebuilder new to high density inner-city schemes. In this case the ...
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Made in Japan
Hold on to your hard hats. A Japanese contractor has developed the technology to add a storey to a building every three days. How? Using robots, of course.
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Fantasy architecture
The might-have-beens of history include architectural masterpieces that never got off the ground. Now, thanks to computer graphics, we can get a glimpse what we’ve been missing.
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Jolly well prove it
If you’re not on the ball with proving the basis for a delay claim or don’t know how to show what really caused the delay, then Nicholas Carnell’s book is certainly for you.
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Top of the form
A new standard form of subcontract for use on government work has been condemned by the Constructors Liaison Group as “utterly flawed” and “dreadful”. Do any of its attacks stand up to examination?
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Testing the limits
The fifth in this series of articles on collateral warranties looks at limitation provisions and limits on liability.
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Clash points
The fuel crisis hit construction hard. Now, contractors must convince their clients that they need extensions of time to cope with the delays it caused. Luckily, the force majeure clause in the JCT forms can help.
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Clash points
Let’s not get carried away. Force majeure is not defined that clearly in English law – or in JCT98. And can the fuel crisis really be said to have prevented work, or did it just make it more difficult?
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Jump or push?
An employee who resigns because the boss has acted unreasonably could have grounds for a tribunal.