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London Eye in legal talks over rival Prague wheel
Wheel team may take action over copyright as architect accuses consortium of “blatant plagiarism”.
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Housing Forum chief gets bigger M4I role
Housing forum chief executive David Crewe is to take an enhanced executive role on the board of the Movement for Innovation.Crewe, who already serves as a non-executive board member, will remain chief executive of the Housing Forum, where he is co-ordinating the compilation of the government-sponsored housebuilders’ league tables.Crewe said: ...
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Carillion wins £500m BT job
Carillion has won BT’s £500m Project Jaguar facilities management contract, beating Amec to the five-year deal as predicted by Building.Carillion’s team, which includes Balfour Beatty subsidiary Haden Building Management and Reliance Integrated Services, will manage and maintain 8500 of BT’s properties. The agreement includes an option to extend the contract ...
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Four teams vie for £200m brownfield housing scheme
Consortia competing for Southwark redevelopment to be interviewed on Saturday.
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Europeans get together for steel web site
The Steel Construction Institute has linked up with international steel experts to create a web site offering information on design in steel construction. The project, called E-Commerce for European Steel Construction, has won a £580 000 grant from the Department of Trade and Industry.Costing £4m in total, the project will ...
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Portrait gallery heads London lottery rush
The new £15.9m wing of the National Portrait Gallery was scheduled to be opened by the Queen this week, the first of six major lottery projects set to open in central London this month.Although barely visible from the street, the wing of the late Victorian gallery increases public and exhibition ...
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Isle of Man government cuts VAT on refurb to 5%
Government lobbies European Council for reduction in repair and refurbishment VAT but ignores UK.
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Design teams go under the productivity microscope
Leading clients are about to subject their architects to BRE-style time-and-motion study.
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Fairview managers launch buyout
Chairman and managing director spearhead £300m bid to take north London housebuilder private.
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Construction growth bucks UK trend
Construction Forecasting and Research’s latest quarterly survey predicts that construction work in the UK will increase by up to 5% over the next two years.CFR’s findings coincide with a report produced by credit agency Experian showing that construction was one of only four UK industrial sectors out of 23 analysed ...
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Analysts tip Jarvis for takeover
Latest fall in share price and volume of stocks changing hands fuel City speculation that contractor is being stalked.
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Ex-Balfour director joins Amec
Stuart Siddall has landed the biggest finance job in contracting – finance director of Amec, the UK’s largest building and civil engineering company. Siddall, 46, joins from airports services firm Alpha Airports Group, where he was also finance director. He had previously been finance director of Balfour Beatty (1990-95) and ...
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Three housebuilders line up to buy Rippon
Galliford, Persimmon and Wilson Bowden are all understood to be in the running to buy north Nottinghamshire-based housebuilder Rippon. The sale will follow the £30m takeover of Rippon’s parent, housebuilder and quarry operator Breedon, by the larger materials firm Ennstone. Rippon will be sold when the deal, announced last week, ...
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Dot-coms quick on the draw
Two on-line services have beaten the government in the race against the cowboys. Improveline and hi-revolution are offering householders a database of vetted and reliable contractors – so why does anybody need the quality mark?
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Mr Rethink
The boss of award-winning housebuilder Westbury is rising to the challenges of the stock market and the Internet.
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Be it ever so humble …
First person The slums may have gone, but Britain is still plagued by housing difficulties – which the Conservatives only made worse.
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From here to eternity
Chartres, Notre Dame, Salisbury – LA. Can today’s structural engineers measure up to their medieval forerunners and produce a future-proof cathedral in the world’s most notorious earthquake zone?
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Don’t buy Beta
In the future, everyone in the building industry will use one data management system. Trouble is, no one knows which it will be. HBG’s Graham Cash hopes he’s backed the winner.
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Double exposure?
You can’t pursue the same case in two tribunals at the same time, but if you have litigation or arbitration under way, you can still refer it to adjudication to get a quick, interim decision.
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