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Make doubles profit to £969,000
Total turnover up but European and Middle Eastern revenues fall
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Comment
Obsolete office space is a growing problem
Old and poor quality commercial building stock is a risk for investors especially as sustainability regulations tighten up, but there is a solution …
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WSP and Farrells picked for Old Oak Common station project
Engineer and architect to work up three options for new HS2, Crossrail and overground interchange
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Science Central, Newcastle
Building awarded highest sustainability standard under the CEEQUAL certification scheme
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Consultants face skills shortage
Three quarters of consultants predict skills shortages over the next year
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Balfour Beatty may become acquisition target
Analysts say move to sell off Parsons Brinckerhoff marks end of firm’s global ambitions and could leave Balfour Beatty open to takeovers
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Another 18 months to fix Balfour Beatty’s UK business
Firm’s UK construction chief executive Nick Pollard says review has identified ‘operational and commercial issues’
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Features
The 2014 consultants' salary survey
Wages are still slowly on the up according to this year’s Building/Hays Construction consultants’ salary survey, but more significant is the drive towards recruitment in 2014, with firms seeking - and competing for - new talent to avoid skills shortages on the horizon
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MPs push for tougher Highways Agency regulation
Select committee believes current regulatory plans for an autonomous Highways Agency are “inadequate”
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Sainsbury’s plans to rein in capital expenditure
Retail giant plans to reduce proportion of revenue spent on development pipeline
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Features
What to specify: Commercial
This week we have some interesting settings for commercial products, including a fashion house in Manchester, the depths of Amsterdam’s subway system and Volkswagen’s HQ in Milton Keynes
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Lack of infrastructure investment could hit recovery
Arcadis report finds lack of investment in new and replacement buildings and infrastructure could threaten UK’s economic recovery
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Costain order book hits record level
Firm’s order book increased to over £3bn in the first four months of the year
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ISG picks up £70m of office fit-out work
Contractor ISG has won £70m worth of fit-out contracts in the last two months, including job to fit out five floors of Walkie Talkie