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Head to head: Copenhagen
Targets vs flexibility - Both sides of the eco debate agree that uncertainty is the main threat to UK plc. But their solutions are very different
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NHS cuts Procure 21+ in half
The NHS has halved the number of places on its Procure 21+ framework after dramatically scaling down the amount of work expected to flow through it
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Stalled Foster hotel close to sale
Foster + Partners troubled Silken hotel in London is expected to be sold before Christmas, according to sources close to the situation
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NewsKingdom coming
Construction of the third of four phases of The Avenues, Kuwait’s largest shopping centre, got under way last month
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Latest construction appointments - 11 December 2009
Glovers Project Services has named Alan Whiting associate director and Andrew Field business development manager
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McLaren wins first deal on Royal Mail’s £300m framework
McLaren Construction has won the first contract under the Royal Mail’s £300m framework deal
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NewsHumphrey’s house
This masterplan by Bennetts Associates is intended to turn the area around Manchester’s Piccadilly station into a civil service campus
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Berkeley goes to market
Berkeley Group has said there is an “increased number of land opportunities” coming to market
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Carillion sells equity stakes
Carillion has sold equity stakes in two PPP projects to investment group Innisfree for £86.9m and said it expects to be in a net cash position by the end of the year
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Askew to leave Taylor Wimpey
Norman Askew, chairman of Taylor Wimpey, has said he will leave the housebuilder by the end of 2010
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ISG bullish about London
Fit-out specialist ISG predicted an upturn in the London fit-out market for 2010 in a trading update last week
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CommentHansom: Dangerous liaisons
Construction has come over all drama and intrigue, it seems. We therefore invite you, ladies and gentlemen, to a cloak and dagger meeting, a masked party and a duelling lesson. Don’t forget your wigs
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CommentShould we blame the big boys?
On 13 November you published an article by Richard Steer complaining about uneconomic bidding by QSs
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Or blame all QSs?
I read with interest the article in which Richard Steer was having a whinge about how the prevalence of low bidding was having a dramatic impact upon levels of professional QS fees
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Where does it all end?
Stephen Blake, director of the Office of Fair Trading (23 October, page 30) has drawn attention to the illegality of one bidder obtaining a price from another
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They should have said
It was with some incredulity and confusion that I read the news item “Industry slams payment law plans” (13 November, page 12)
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Planning obsolescence
I was most impressed with the first question posed at last week’s Homes and Communities Agency “open meeting” on 26 November
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Whistling in the dark
Further to your recent “whistleblower” item (13 November, page 15), it seems the proposed action by Balfour Beatty ex-employees is driven by an assumption of continuing unemployment with a commensurate loss of prospective earnings
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Arbitrary distinctions
I read John Redmond’s piece about arbitration with a wry smile (27 November, page 51)
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CommentInformation overload: The bumf tax
Tenderers are forced to wade through a shedload of information for the odd relevant detail, costing them a fortune. A few trips to the county court might put an end to the practice