More news – Page 2616
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£3.2bn donated to rebuild Gaza
Palestinian Authority says aid is ‘useless until a settlement with Israel’
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Manufacturing sector reports record drop
Jobs are slashed as recession begins to hit bigger companies
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Job cuts loom at WSP despite strong results
Consultant's profit and turnover both up by one-third but slowdown will bring more redundancies
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Winning bidder named for Leicester bridge competition
Buro Happold and Explorations Architecture secure contract for foot and cycle crossing over River Soar
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Jordan green tower excavations near completion
Developer claims building will ‘set new standards for sustainability’
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Mott MacDonald to advise on Indian biotech park
35-acre site will house facility to develop medicines from local plants
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Keller turnover breaks £1bn barrier
Ground engineering specialist posts solid results, but outlook for 2009 is less cheerful
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Saudi Arabia 'well placed to survive downturn'
Report says kingdom's economy will be minimally affected by the global turmoil this year and bounce back in 2010
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Crossrail to give £1.2bn boost to South-east economy
Study calculates major transport and productivity benefits across the region, with some London boroughs gaining £60m a year
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Top Dubai developer considers merger
Top-three developer Union Properties mulls merger as a solution to cash troubles after Formula One theme park goes on hold
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Currie & Brown board takes 25% pay cut
Company cuts employee wages by an average of 8% to remain competitive in downturn
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The sayings of Bernard Cribbins
We’re back in the seventies… the decade of endless teabreaks, sclerotic roads and paralysed government – as portrayed in the work of a certain popular actor
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Are you stuck in one-way traffic? Liquidated damages and the Construction Act
Rupert Choat Developers can’t rely on the Construction Act when they claim liquidated damages, but the contractor can when it reclaims them. How unfair!
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Barratt bank covenants safe – unless there’s a meltdown
Housebuilder is confident it will not break agreements on £1.4bn debt as sales edge upwards
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HCA’s regeneration power ‘hamstrung by spending rules’
Agency struggling to kickstart stalled schemes because of restrictions on what it can fund
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Viñoly’s glass chimney axed from Battersea design
Developer caves in to demands to abandon plans for 300m-tall sustainable structure
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‘Scrabbling’ architects vie for £200k job
An interior design job that could be worth just £200,000 has attracted more than 100 entries in the latest indication of the paucity of design work coming to market.
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McCarthy & Stone gets nod for £800m debt deal
Debt-for-equity swap will see 60 senior lenders take control of the firm
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Lunchtime rules in Mexico City
Business lunches in Mexico City often start with tequilla and end with a man hug
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Giant glass panels arrive for the leaning tower of Abu Dhabi
The world's biggest flatbed delivers diamond-shaped glazing panels for the RMJM-designed Capital Gate building