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NewsOFT victim Concentra bought out of administration
Owners sign deal to buy back £8m of contracts, but creditors may only recover 10% of £4m debt
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NewsGleeds to manage Marks and Spencer's India expansion
New stores to open in shopping malls around the country and will be about 20,000ft² in size
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NewsAmec to buy Currie & Brown Australian arm for £20m
Consultant says move will enable it to fund expansion into other international markets
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NewsChief Mark Davies to leave Connaught
Boss of integrated services group to leave at the end of August to ‘seek new challenges elsewhere’
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NewsBrookfield and Mace vie for £190m Heron scheme
Contractors thought to be frontrunners for 35-storey tower next to Barbican in City of London
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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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Comment
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 …