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NHBC admits mistakes in inspecting new home
Homes watchdog agrees that a check-up never took place but says errors were administrative.
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Hochtief eyes Balfour and Carillion
Analysts believe German giant is ready to buy into companies for lucrative PFI stakes.
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Mitie has yet another good year
Services business Mitie Group has bagged pre-tax profit of more than 30%. The result for the year to 31 March 1999 is the firm’s 10th in a row that has made this level of return.Mitie, which is almost 50% staff-owned, is now seeking to expand into property outsourcing ...
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Kvaerner sells PFI arm
Kvaerner Construction has sold its corporate development arm to Australian bank Macquarie, as predicted in Building (7 May, page 9).Infrastructure Trust of Australia, which is managed by Macquarie, announced on Monday that it was buying Kvaerner Investment and Kvaerner Corporate Development for £90m.ITA will take control of seven of ...
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Peter Birse steps down as chairman of contractor
Non-executive management guru Peter Watson takes reins.
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Small firms to feel euro pain less
Small and medium-sized construction firms believe that converting to the single currency will cost them less than similar-sized companies in other industry sectors, according to a survey of 1000 businesses with a turnover of less than £1m.Construction managers forecast average conversion costs of £679 a company, lower than ...
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Firms team up for social housing work
Joint venture between medium-sized Rydon Construction and United House to offer housing associations “full partnering”.
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The spin starts here
The government has appointed a PR company to "counteract inaccurate stories" in the press about Portcullis House. As the media campaign begins, Building asks members of the public what they think of the £250m MPs' building.
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Can you manage it?
Project management in construction has a lot to learn from science and engineering, where the manager aims to understand the client totally.
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Salford wins silver
Salford's steel-clad arts centre may not shimmer quite like Gehry's Guggenheim, but the complex lottery scheme is successfully attracting development and staying within its budget.
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Not blind before the law
Lord Denning's career as a judge dedicated to common sense and the righting of wrongs is worth celebrating especially by companies in the construction industry.
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The Building top 50
If you care more about making money than turning it over, you ought to consider a career in housebuilding; if you want to be a contractor, maybe you should consider branching out into the services sector. That's the message in the latest survey of who's earning, selling and making what ...
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New orders down slightly
New DETR figures show that £1.91bn of new construction orders were won in May, slightly less than the £1.96bn placed in May 1998.But 15% more orders were won in the three months from March to May than in the previous quarter. Orders for the second quarter were 3% up on ...
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Galliford names new chairman
Tony Palmer has been appointed chairman-designate at Galliford Group. The former Taylor Woodrow chief executive will take up the post after non-executive chairman Richard Miles retires at the company's annual general meeting on 29 October.Peter Galliford will also step down as a non-executive director at the meeting after 50 years ...
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Rugby sale disappoints City
City analysts have voiced their disappointment at Rugby Group's sale of its UK and Australian joinery business to private US manufacturer Jeld-Wen for £86.5m.The group announced in March that it was in the advanced stages of selling off all its joinery interests to concentrate on its core business of lime ...
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Meet the mystery shopper
How seriously should you take Andrew Goodall, the 36-year-old unknown who tried to buy Alfred McAlpine? It depends if you are next on his list.
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The speed trap
Clients often assume they can demand that contractors finish by Christmas, variations or no variations. In fact, they can t, unless the contractor agrees and then the bill may be bigger than they anticipated.
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John McCarthy
He trained as a carpenter but before you could say "self-starter", the McCarthy & Stone boss had earned his first million. Now his retirement homebuilding business makes profits that turn contractors green with envy.
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Prime suspect
If the future of construction lies in the hands of today’s get-rich-quick builders, what future has architecture?
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BT unveils £500m Egan masterplan
Between one and three contractors to take over construction work on 8000-building estate.