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Major contractors buy time with tax opt-out
Big firms are relaxed about the new industry tax scheme, but subcontractors are still fretting.
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Industrial action threat at Merrill Lynch HQ
Steel erectors working for contractor William Hare on the £100m Merrill Lynch headquarters in the City of London are threatening industrial action to win a 50p-an-hour pay increase.The steel erectors are working a strict 36-hour week, in a bid to force William Hare to give the project nominated site status, ...
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Firms team up for £400m of BT work
Facilities management work totalling £200m to be let under Project Jaguar, with £200m of capital projects set to be added later.
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Additional features push Wembley cost to £475m
Partly retractable roof, banqueting hall and more seats help to add £155m to new stadium’s price-tag.
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£120m Liverpool lottery project gets green light
Council wins court ruling against city developer and will press ahead with delayed scheme.
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Sir Robert McAlpine issues £4m Hampden Park writ
Contractor makes rapid response to client’s funding shortfall on Scottish national stadium.
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Bovis kicks off new push with biotech buy
Sir Frank Lampl spells out three-pronged strategy for growth after acquisition of £30m-turnover Tanvec.
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First signs of overheating as activity rises
UK construction activity grew in July for the sixth month in a row, says the latest report by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. The total construction activity index dropped slightly to 62.9 from 63.7 in June, but stayed well above the 50 no-change level. The survey said the ...
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Government is failing UK industry, says housebuilder
Boss of UK-Irish firm Abbey says lack of training is choking British construction market.
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Linden to raise £20.1m to bid for brownfields
Housebuilder to issue shares and loan notes to exploit expansion opportunities in Bristol and Gloucester and boost brownfield landbank.
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Hanson chief says US market is soaring
Hanson chief executive Andrew Dougal says UK demand for building materials grew in June but that the market is still not as buoyant as the USA. Dougal forecasts that US demand for aggregates may increase by as much as 15% over the next six years as a result of the ...
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Winning the West
Bristol’s loss of the £58m harbourside scheme seems to have done little to hurt the local economy, thanks to a few major projects, but firms still need a good plan to make it in a savagely competitive market.
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Timber’s back in the frame
A damning TV documentary on timber-frame homes sent the English and Welsh market into a downward spiral. Now it’s making a comeback – but with a new twist.
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Kate Priestley
A woman in a male domain, the head of NHS Estates has had to work hard to earn respect. Now the most powerful woman in construction, it is her job to ensure that the health building budget of £1.8bn a year is spent efficiently.
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The pleasure principle
First person Functional buildings are all very well, but thank goodness we can still erect structures just to cheer ourselves up.
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Please relieve me
Second opinion Public toilets may be out of sight but they shouldn’t be out of mind – so why so many drastic design faults?
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The living daylights
It may look like a Bond villain's lair, but the gleaming glasshouse nestling in the Welsh hills is Foster and Partners' centrepiece to the £43.3m botanic garden.
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Totally absorbing
Ove Arup's Chris Twinn has pioneered a radical humidity control system for a Jersey document store. Will it revolutionise building services?
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Measuring up
The performance measurement software system that has won accolades from the Movement for Innovation.
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Who needs experts?
Lord Woolf believes that limiting the number of expert witnesses in construction disputes will reduce the cost of litigation, but will it? And is it a workable solution anyway?