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Pedalling your wares
Cycle and car-parts retailer Halfords has plans for 15 new stores worth £500 000 each this year. How can you become a preferred contractor or consultant?
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The Professionals
The Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services' Christine Little on how a recruitment consultant can help employers find the best staff.
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Appointments
Contractor Clugston Construction has appointed Peter Deakin director of its southern operation. Matthew Mercer and Anne Pugh have been made regional managers and Peter Dobson has become marketing manager for the region.Consultants Civil and structural consulting engineer Thorburn Colquhoun has promoted Colin McPherson to associate director.Peter ...
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Symonds split fires sale speculation
French parent takes over FM arm, prompting rumours that remaining businesses will be sold.
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Balfour Beatty to expand as BICC quits cables
£275m energy cable sale could fund acquisition of Tarmac or Bovis, analysts say.
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Interim cowboy report released
Construction minister Nick Raynsford is today due to publish an interim report from the taskforce he set up to help outlaw cowboy builders. The taskforce, headed by Stent Foundations chairman Tony Merricks, has called for the introduction of a Quality Mark to differentiate between reputable builders and cowboys. Raynsford is ...
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Scots wishlist published
Construction chiefs in Scotland have called on the forthcoming administration to give the industry the priority that its importance to the country s economy deserves. The industry bosses are part of the Scottish Construction Sector Pathfinder Group, which is chaired by Sir Fraser Morrison. It was one of 13 bodies ...
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Eight picked to pilot PFI social housing
Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London councils among those selected for ground-breaking upgrade and maintenance deals.
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Labour pledges £300m for Scottish social housing
If party wins election, it will encourage councils to transfer homes to publicly accountable landlords.
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Kosovo war casts shadow over housebuilding
House prices are on the up, but the crisis in Yugoslavia has the market in pessimistic mood.
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Lottery funding changes upset architects
The RIBA has warned that proposed changes to the Arts Council s lottery funding strategy could make things worse for architects working on lottery schemes. In his response to the council s consultation document, RIBA president David Rock said sudden changes could disrupt the work of both existing and potential ...
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DETR scuppers Foster's first UK housing scheme
Foster and Partner's brownfield project withdrawn over affordable housing objections.
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Law reforms threaten future of arbitration
The use of arbitration in construction disputes looks doomed because of civil law reforms that will come into effect later this month and the success of recent adjudications, construction lawyers have warned. Some City law firms are striking out arbitration clauses from contracts being circulated by clients. Peter Shaw, construction ...
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DL&E to take over Manchester QS
Davis Langdon & Everest to absorb Poole Stokes Wood in bid to broaden range of services.
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AYH’s new guard buys out retiring directors
QS and project manager AYH has restructured to allow a younger generation of directors to buy the firm from four retiring directors. Under the deal, managing director David Thompson, the youngest of five shareholders when the company was incorporated five years ago, has been appointed chairman. But directors Barrie Hallett, ...
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Costain is back in the black after four years
Reorganisation and Skanska backing puts contractor into the profit zone.
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RMC selectively announces acquisitions
Building materials group RMC pleased the City by announcing that it is buying two privately owned US concrete suppliers for £72.1m, but kept analysts guessing about a £1bn acquisition of Scancem in Sweden. Shares raced ahead 84p to 837p as a result of the news, which was reported alongside an ...
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Sporting chance
Manchester City Council is refusing to let funding problems scupper its ambitious plans for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Can it win the race?
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Star of the big screen
Many think of Bradford as the grubby embodiment of the thoroughly Yorkshire sentiment, Where there's muck there's brass . Yet Bradford in 1983 confounded its ill-informed detractors by becoming home to a resource that stood for everything that was new, modern, even futuristic: the National Museum of Photography, Film ...
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Cowboys: what you think
Next week, construction minister Nick Raynsford is expected to launch a massive consultation exercise to find ways to protect homeowners from the menace of cowboy builders.