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NewsPersonality of the year
This year’s winner is a man who can make a compelling case to have done more practical good to more people in the construction industry than any other: Tim Byles
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NewsMcAlpine and Mace team up for £400m super-lab
Sir Robert McAlpine and Mace, who are vying for one of the few jobs not on hold in the City of London, have teamed up to bid for a £400m deal to build a new “super laboratory” in the capital
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NewsIan Tyler still best value boss as bonus row escalates
Balfour chief executive praised for 2009 success as shareholders complain of ‘excessive’ rewards
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NewsMid-range rental plan to rescue housing numbers
Housing association says grant could go twice as far, as funding reduction looms
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NewsWrap award for sustainable construction
The reduction of site waste sent to landfill is an area where the British construction industry has made great advances, but nobody has advanced as far as this year’s winner
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NewsCapita Symonds to win £30m 2012 legacy job
Consultant Capita Symonds looks set to secure a multimillion pound role on a project overseeing the London borough of Newham’s Olympic legacy during and after the Games.
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Comment
Mentmore Towers vs Packman Lucas: a court injunction
Do the courts have the power to grant injunctions restraining a party from pursuing an adjudication?
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Comment
It’s a double-dip recession for construction, if the statisticians’ first stab at growth is right
Construction has fallen into a double-dip recession – that is if the preliminary estimates by the statisticians putting together the first quarter 2010 gross domestic product figures are to be believed.The preliminary GDP figures put growth at a pallid 0.2% for the economy as a whole. This low level of ...
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NewsTie me plank down, sport
The enterprising chaps in the Western Australian outback have been putting vehicles to ingenious use
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CommentAbout this turbine you sold me
An NEC form for the supply of high-value items has arrived on the scene to compete with the handful of contracts that already provide this facility. What’s the verdict?
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CommentWhat do you mean, ‘as far as possible’?
The Supreme Court has been looking at how to interpret words. It favours looking at commercial intention rather than literal meaning – but are intentions any easier to fathom?
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CommentBribery Bill: Greasing the wheels of commerce
Bribery is endemic in many parts of the world where British firms do business, but any that succumb to it will soon face fairly horrific penalties
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CommentCollatoral contracts: The unkindness of strangers
Collateral contracts are supposed to protect those not party to a contractual set-up. They work, but they also introduce flint-hearted button counters into the equation
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FeaturesBDP's Peter Drummond: The revolutionary in carpet slippers
BDP, Britain’s biggest architect, is better known for quiet competence than daring. But this is the firm that defied Tesco, beat the downturn, expanded into India and Libya and doesn’t give a fig for profit. Chief executive Peter Drummond tells Roxane McMeeken all about it
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FeaturesLondon: The last of the past
The final projects of London’s long, long commercial boom are going to finish over the next year or so. Ike Ijeh rounds up the best of them
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NewsArchitectural practice of the year
2010 is Edward Cullinan’s year, and this popular practice took the prize because the judges liked everything about the way it does business, from its schemes to its HR policiesSponsored by Comar
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NewsChief executive of the year
John McDonough is the boss of bosses this year, thanks to a splendid record as head of Carillion, but also his performance as a kind of construction renaissance man …Sponsored by KPMG
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NewsClient of the year
As you might have expected, with one exception, this category is a hymn of praise to the public sector and the role it has played in keeping the industry going
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NewsHousebuilder of the year
Well, the strong favourite won this award this year: Berkeley Group – the only volume housebuilder to come through the recession almost unscathed …