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£250m deal for Wimpey
A consortium led by Wimpey Homes has won a competition to carry out a £250m mixed-use redevelopment of 12 ha in Vauxhall, south London. The Wimpey team was named preferred bidder for the Project Vauxhall estate regeneration scheme by a steering group of residents and school governors on Lambeth's Ethelred ...
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Call for 'best value' training
The construction industry wants the Treasury to fund training to update the procurement skills of thousands of civil servants. Construction Industry Council chairman Robin Nicholson has asked the chancellor to ensure that officials choose construction firms in line with "best value" criteria rather than competitive tendering. The ...
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Ballymore to build Docklands tower
Developer Ballymore is planning a £200m, 37-storey office tower in London Docklands. The East End firm is to submit an outline planning application for the scheme, designed by architect Michael Squire and Partners, to Tower Hamlets Council next week. It plans to start on site late this year or early ...
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Joint bidder wins rail job
A joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Tarmac's rail arm has been picked as preferred bidder for a £200m upgrade of overhead lines on the West Coast Main Line. The work will be part of Railtrack's £2.2bn modernisation of the line that will allow trains to run at up to ...
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Merricks at loggerheads with cowboy taskforce
Row threatens to blow up into revolt as contractors demand withdrawal of "competent" workers plan.
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BCO revises office specs
The British Council for Offices is set to increase maximum allowable floor weight and lighting heat loads to bring UK office specifications into line with the rest of the world. Bovis director and council technical committee member Chris Spackman said the decision to revise BCO specifications followed a worldwide benchmarking ...
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Tarmac 'get sick and you're sacked' contract slammed
UCATT lobbies government over Tarmac labour arm's unethical contracts.
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Firms dispute NHBC expulsion
Two housebuilders are consulting their lawyers after being named and shamed as part of the National House Building Council's tough new approach to policing industry standards. Sunderland-based DVP and Hertfordshire firm Overton Brothers Building Contractors have been struck off the NHBC's register as part of the council's drive ...
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New Wimpey boss sets tough targets
Chief executive Dennis Brant outlines ambitious agenda for improving housebuilder's performance.
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Beazer profit fall blamed on planning delays
Volume housebuilder Beazer has dismissed a 15% dive in interim pre-tax profit as a blip caused by planning delays. Beazer Group chief executive Dennis Webb said the company was hit by considerable planning delays , which saw completions drop 13% to 3035 in the six months to 31 December ...
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Market survey raises hopes of 'soft landing'
Construction Confederation figures predict slowdown rather than full-blown recession.
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Kvaerner Construction not for sale, says boss
Kvaerner Construction is not on its troubled parent group's sell-off hit list, chief executive Keith Clarke insisted this week. The London-based international construction arm of Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering giant Kvaerner Group this week turned in a solid set of results, in stark contrast to its parent company. The construction ...
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Contractors' year-on-year workload falls by half
January's £758.6m total is improvement on previous month, but a big drop from January 1998's £1.3bn.
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Make-or-break time for engineers
The sober world of consulting engineers has been shaken of late, with transatlantic consolidation, diversification and job losses signalling fundamental changes in the rules of the game.
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Why we need new rules
Regulations that cannot keep pace with change are hampering the design team's efforts to Eganise itself.
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Get what you pay for
Lowest price wins is still the norm in construction, but all that is about to change.
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Inside jobs
Construction employers have teamed up with a young offenders institute to train and recruit apprentices. So far, it's proved a learning experience for all.
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Windows 99
An extensively glazed headquarters for US software giant Computer Associates has a distinctive W shape that is refreshingly different from the usual corporate boxes.
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Why is a lawyer like a bull?
This is the story of the architect who gave a speech at a lawyers jamboree in which he suggested that his audience make themselves redundant. And what's more, he has a point