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NewsBalfour Beatty closes in on Multibuild deal
About 60 Multibuild workers will be transferred to Balfour Beatty in an acquisition expected to be completed today
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NewsBCSE launches design think tank
Schools body hopes new organization will use social media to discuss and develop ideas for future
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NewsMorgan Professional Services wins £3m university job
Design and engineering specialist to create new research facilities for University of Glasgow
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NewsT Clarke: We will beat expectations this year
M&E contractor confident about March’s results despite profit warnings last year
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NewsCarillion-led LEP wins £370m Wolverhampton BSF
Latest win take contractor’s total Building Schools for the Future haul to £1.7bn
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NewsMitie optimistic about 2010
Outsourcing specialist confident it will hit expectations for full-year results
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NewsHCA deputy head to lead Stockport council
Eamonn Boylon, who was poached by Homes and Communities Agency last year, will leave in March
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NewsWYG non-executive director to retire
John Richardson joined board 12 years ago and was also chair to consultant engineer’s audit committee
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NewsBalfour scoops £270m of road and rail work
Work including the £50m upgrade of Edinburgh Waverley station by 2013
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NewsBrighter outlook from forecasters, but severe risks remain
The forecasts from Hewes & Associates and Leading Edge sit interestingly against the other winter forecasts for construction output released over the past couple of weeks
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NewsThe Prater principle: Michael Prater interview
Over 60 years, Michael Prater’s family firm has grown from a one-man band to become the country’s biggest envelope specialist. As the company fights off its fourth recession, he tells Roxane McMeeken how it’s done
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NewsVertical limit
Our thanks to Xana Askew of Cassidy and Ashton Architects in Preston, who sent us these photos of urban mountaineers tackling the north face of the building next door. “I took these from my third-floor office fire escape door. Some people have no concept of vertigo … or health and ...
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CommentWigging out: Litigation costs
Litigation has become so expensive, and the courts so keen to push cases down other settlement routes, that trials may soon be reserved for only the most exceptional cases
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CommentGoing the distance: Relevant information
Here’s a tale of two sisters who got into a row with their builder, followed by five adjudications and a court case that established some useful case law
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When adjudication won’t do: Enterprise vs Tony McFadden
When a water contractor went into liquidation, it left behind a complicated set of debts and contracts, and a continuing legal struggle …
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CommentWhat price, justice?: Jackson's cost review
Lord Justice Jackson has released his recommendations for ways to reduce the cost of litigation and make the courts more accessible. And he’s done a good job, too
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FeaturesInternally grateful: Meet two construction interns
Our jilted generation of graduates can be trained, retained and ultimately employed – if firms woke up to the advantages of internship. Building met two interns and explained why Building is backing The Pledge to recruit more
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CommentAffairs to remember
A £9bn property tycoon’s brief encounter with Mace, the latest conspiracy theories over RMJM’s dalliance with Fred Goodwin and one architect’s abusive relationship with the English language
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FeaturesThe VIP list: Teenagers design a nightclub
Women in Property invited some very important guests to help design a new bar at the Matter nightclub in Greenwich
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Comment
Lessons from history
Amanda Levete says: “What we need is something like an architectural Supreme Court, made up of architects and advisers whose pre-eminence is undisputed, that passes binding judgment” (22 January, page 22)