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Gardiner & Theobald to lead 2000 village inquiry
QS appointed to find truth behind accusations of dumbing down at millennium centrepiece.
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First cardboard building planned in Essex
Schoolchildren are used to making buildings out of cardboard boxes, but now pupils will occupy one engineer Buro Happold is developing the country s first cardboard building for a school in Essex. Buro Happold aims to use cardboard components for a school in Essex that will use 90% ...
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Tax reprieve likely as crunch date looms
Paymaster-general Primarolo about to announce transitional arrangements to help subcontractors.
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BAA picks four preferred small works contractors
Llewellyns, Warings, Mace and Mansell get the nod for general building and fit-out frameworks.
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Consultants sound tax warning
Consultants are alarmed over proposals to tax their use of self-employed staff operating as one-person companies. Draft Inland Revenue proposals will make firms liable for the income tax and National Insurance contributions of self-employed consultants they hire for extended periods. Consulting firms such as architects and engineers say this will ...
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Norwest Holst cinema nine-10 weeks late
Norwest Holst has run into problems on the £215m Oracle Centre in Reading, falling almost three months behind schedule on the construction of a cinema. The contractor, which is building the shell for a £4.5m design-and-build Warner Village cinema, was expected to hand over to the scheme s fit-out ...
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Carillion executives unveil £1m logo
This is the £1m logo of the demerged Tarmac construction business, as modelled by the Carillion executive board: from left, Roger Robinson, John Sharples, Sir Neville Simms and Euan McEwan. Designed by image consultant Enterprise IG it will appear on all company stationery, although signs on other assets, including Carillion ...
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Contractors warm to PFI bank after briefing
PFI taskforce boss Montague and minister Milburn on PR drive for new "bank".
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Franklin & Andrews moves into FM to boost fees
Top five quantity surveyor restructures to offer facilities management to clients.
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London’s eyesores named
Elephant and Castle, Battersea Power Station and Camden Town Underground station have been named as among six of London s worst eyesores. They are also on a hit list compiled by Central London Partnership, a public-private sector body set up to champion investment in central London. It wants to see ...
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Fifty projects on list for £269m funding
The Arts Council has named nearly 50 projects that could receive a chunk of the £269m it has available for capital funding. Projects in line for funding under the capital programme completion plan one include the Foster and Partners-designed Music Centre in Gateshead, the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, and the ...
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DETR group tackles racism and sexism
Government and industry bodies set up monitoring taskforce "to put equal opportunities at top of the agenda".
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Gleeds in quick fit call centre venture
QS hooks up with car parts supplier Unipart to produce cheap, off-the-shelf call centres.
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Carillion hard at work selling flotation
The Carillion road show rolled on this week as management met 11 senior analysts to persuade them to keep or buy stakes when the business is listed on the stock exchange on 30 July. The City knows Sir Neville Simms very well but this was a chance to introduce ...
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Wigan stadium work wins sports deals for McAlpine
Alfred McAlpine and JJB Sports team up to build more football complexes after Soccer Centre success.
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Services business to up Tilbury profit
Tilbury Douglas plans £75.3m purchase of scaffolding and industrial services specialist Bandt in bid to move away from traditional contracting.
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Dwyer takes on Liverpool revival
The former Wimpey boss is returning to his home town to entice national developers to a city once synonymous with militant local politics and industrial strife.
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Helping hands
How MDA and Mansell are advising black firms in a new scheme to tackle racism in the industry