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    Major contractor of the year (£200m-plus turnover)

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    In this TJM Europe-sponsored category, all the firms had that little extra something, be it Carillions's PFI expertise or Bovis Lend Lease's worldwide coverage.

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    Contractor of the year (£50-200m turnover)

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Partnering, partnering, partnering was the secret to making the shortlist – and it certainly got results for the firms that did. This award is sponsored by Ernst & Young Real Estate Group.

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    Rogers to design Wembley Bluewater

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Leisure, retail and residential scheme will give urban taskforce chairman chance to put ideas to the test.

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    … and joins Farrell for Canary Riverside job

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership and Terry Farrell & Partners are expected to win work on the next phase of the £300m Canary Riverside development in London Docklands.It is understood that a design decision on the next, £200m phase is imminent, although it is not known whether the architects are in competition ...

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    Hopkins’ Nottingham campus faces legal threat

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Specialists claim they are owed money for extra work on ground-breaking “green” scheme.

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    Dome tells unpaid firms to ‘back off’

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    New Millennium Experience Company has asked contractors owed money for work on the dome to “back off” after admitting it owes substantial amounts to a number of firms.A spokesperson for NMEC said: “There is a backlog of smaller-value bills outstanding but we have no figure for the total amount. Our ...

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    MPs: cheaper rural homes

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    One hundred Labour MPs representing rural constituencies have called on the government to tackle the lack of affordable homes in the countryside.The MPs, members of Labour’s Rural Group, launched the Manifesto for Rural Britain campaign this week. Central to the group’s demands are calls for the amount of affordable housing ...

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    Civic pride should be new motto, says prime minister

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair tells Building Awards audience that designers and contractors must set the highest standards.

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    Carillion and Westbury win Building Awards

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Carillion Building the contractor that demerged from Tarmac last year, and innovative housebuilder Westbury Homes headed the roll-call of winners at the 2000 Building Awards.Others to triumph included Davis Langdon & Everest, the world’s largest quantity surveyor; Chetwood Associates, architect of J Sainsbury’s eco-store in Greenwich and former Mace chief ...

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    Koolhaas wins $100 000 Pritzker prize

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Avant-garde Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, worth $100 000 in cash. The 56-year-old senior partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam is famous for turning conventions of modern architecture and urban design on their head. His 1994 exhibition hall in Lille, northern ...

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    Industry picked to advise on e-commerce revolution

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    National Computing Centre brings together government and construction to trailblaze electronic trading.

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    DETR halts £135m London brownfield homes deal

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Wandsworth council slams “outrageous” decision to call in plan for redeveloping a Shell Oil terminal.

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    150 sparks picket £154m Pfizer job

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Up to 150 striking electricians are continuing to picket the £154m Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Sandwich, Kent. The workers were sacked last week by M&E contractor Balfour Kilpatrick after they went on unofficial strike over alleged safety concerns at the site. Bob Johnson, account manager at construction manager Amec, denied ...

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    Hackney teams named

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Three development teams have been shortlisted for a £35m, five-year housing regeneration project in east London’s Hackney.The teams in contention for the project at the King’s Crescent Estate are led by housing associations North British, Circle 33 and the Peabody Trust.North British has architect John Thompson & Partners and Wimpey ...

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    Eastern Europeans still on London sites

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The faces and nationalities have changed, but one year after Building’s exposé of the exploitation of Kosovar refugees by British contractors, other eastern European workers are gathered on the same London street corner looking for work on the capital’s building sites.Within a month of last year’s article (23 April 1999), ...

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    Case exposes ‘serious loophole’ in adjudication

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Judge Dyson ruling may allow losing party to suspend payment if winner is in financial difficulties.

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    Henry Boot set to buy back shares

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Construction group will buy back its stock if price falls, but denies plans to go private.

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    Output hits six-year high, says RICS

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Construction output reached a six-year high in the first quarter of 2000, according to figures released by the RICS.A quarter of chartered surveyors saw their workload rise in the three months. This compares with 6% in the same period a year ago, and is 1% up on the last quarter ...

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    Prefab arm for Westbury

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Top six housebuilder Westbury has put £10m into a new prefabricated division that it claims will halve building time.The new outfit, which is called Space4, is due to start production in 2001 and is expected to turn out 5000 houses a year when fully operational, compared with the 4300 Westbury ...

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    High-Point plans next shopping trip

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Breakdown of MDA takeover talks fails to dent 400-strong consultant’s enthusiasm for an acquisition before July.