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Action stations for MOD prime contracts
Ministry of Defence on the brink of advertising four projects in which one firm has total control.
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Denham: Government is committed to PFI
Health minister denies claims that process places onerous demands on firms and explains new guidelines.
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Cautious approval from industry
Major Contractors Group director Jennie Price applauds Denham's pledge to rethink "two to the wire" bidding.
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Post Office axes consultants to create select list
£250m-a-year client to cut number of consultants it uses in bid to reduce construction costs.
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Discontent in the CIOB
Discontent is growing in the Chartered Institute of Building over structural changes carried out last year. John Tibbitts, newly elected chairman of the Hertfordshire branch of the CIOB, has written to the president and senior officers describing changes to the constitution as inappropriate. The letter, obtained by Building, is particularly ...
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Adapt or die, Egan tells QSs
Quantity Surveyors will become redundant unless they find a new role, Sir John Egan said last week. The BAA chief told honours degree students in quantity surveying at Westminster University that it was vital that construction followed the car industry s example of using computer simulation and that this would ...
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New RIBA housing group
This week saw the launch of Architects in Housing, a RIBA initiative to champion architects as housing designers. Architects in Housing, which supersedes the RIBA s housing group, will work with other housing bodies to improve the quality, value and desirability of new housing a sector that accounts ...
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Manchester has second thoughts
Council reinterviews four contractors because of fears over low bids, but Amec still the favourite for £90m Commonwealth Games deal.
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Loadsamoney is back as plasterers' rates hit £120
Day rates for finishing trades soar from £80-90 as contractors rush to meet millennium deadlines.
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Amec launches supplier partnering scheme
Amec has followed the lead set by major clients and launched a scheme to form partnering arrangements with key suppliers and subcontractors. Amec hopes the strategic partners initiative will improve efficiency and lead to cost savings. It plans to achieve these by developing ...
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Miller outfoxed in Cala battle
Miller will hear today whether its £94m bid for housebuilder Cala has been thrown into doubt over a technicality. The takeover panel ruled this week that Miller could not increase its 200p-a-share offer if Cala s management buyout vehicle, Dotterel, or another bidder, makes an equal bid for the company. ...
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Firms line up to join D&B list
More than 60 firms, including subcontractors and architects, have expressed an interest in the Design Build Foundation s registration policy since its launch eight days ago. Top contractors Tarmac, Try, Matthew Hall, Amec, Balfour Beatty and HBG signed up for the client body s rigorous prequalification assessment at its House ...
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Berkeley buys Battersea site
Berkeley Homes has purchased Battersea Wharf, a 7 ha site next to the disused Battersea Power Station in south London. It is understood that Berkeley plans to build a mixed-use scheme on the site. The plan comprises 400 dwellings, including social housing, retail units, a hotel and a nightclub.
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32 electricians laid off at opera house
M&E contractor Balfour Kilpatrick prepares to face industrial tribunals as sparks claim it did not follow correct redundancy procedures.
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Housebuilders question brownfield database
Firms believe government has underestimated amount of used land available for new homes.
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Lovell to follow pure contracting course
Sale of social housing arm to Morgan Sindall will allow Lovell to focus on building and on buying specialists.
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Morrison to expand FM and infrastructure
Contractor Morrison is sizing up several acquisitions in a bid to expand its infrastructure and facilities management to match its larger property division. After announcing a 15% rise in group pre-tax profit to £24.1m for the year to 31 March 1999, chairman Sir Fraser Morrison said: As regards acquisitions, ...
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Shepherd loses fourth senior executive
Commercial director Gordon Ray leaves contractor to head up Amec project investment.
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Cowlin profit drops 34% to £473 000
Cowlin Construction s pre-tax profit fell 34% to £473 000 in the year to September 1998, compared with £718 000 in the previous year. The privately owned, Cardiff-based contractor saw a slowdown despite an increase in turnover from £32.2m to £46.9m in the same period. It ...
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Artisan plans spree
Commercial and leisure industry contractor Artisan UK says it is on the look-out for mergers and acquisitions in a bid to become a major player in the specialist contracting market. The building services company, which floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 1998 after demerging from Environmental Property Services, ...