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Four directors pull off Schofield Lothian buyout
Project management consultant Schofield Lothian has completed a management buyout from its £1bn-turnover parent company, Enterprise
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Styles & Wood ‘will struggle to attract private equity investment’
Retail fit-out specialist Styles & Wood will struggle to find a private equity buyer in the current economic climate, industry sources have warned
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McCarthy sons’ firm loses £2m
Churchill Retirement, the company run by the two sons of John McCarthy, the co-founder of McCarthy & Stone, has fallen £2.4m into the red
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Baqus profit down
Consultant Baqus has reported a 23% fall in pre-tax profit from £472,000 to £365,000 in the six months to 31 December 2008
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T Clarke turnover up
Electrical engineering and contracting firm T Clarke has reported a 64% rise in pre-tax profit from £8.2m to £13.4m in the year to 31 December 2008
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Jarvis drops freight
Jarvis has announced the closure of its freight container services business as a result of the recession
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Bullock profit falls
Pre-tax profit at social housing contractor Bullock has fallen from £13.2m to £6.5m as a result of increased administrative charges, details of which were not revealed
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CommentClients: what are they like?
Which clients deserve a medal? Which should be shunned like yellow dogs?
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NewsGreen light for green homes
This design by Davy Smith Architects for a £14.9m affordable housing block on Digby Road in Homerton, east London, has been given the green light
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Homebuy agents announced
The Homes and Communities Agency has named the organisations that can act as agents for its HomeBuy affordable housing scheme
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London agencies give Elephant & Castle £1.8m boost
Transport for London and the London Development Agency have agreed to give a £1.8m boost to the regeneration of Elephant & Castle in the London borough of Southwark
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in February 2009
Private registrations are down to less than a third of this time last year
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Ex-Crossrail chair quits race for 2012 legacy post
Former Crossrail chair Adrian Montague is understood to have dropped out of the running to chair the body driving the development of the Olympic park after the 2012 Games
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NewsCheering up Gravesend: Clifton Wharf, Kent
Clifton Wharf, a riverside regeneration project in Gravesend, Kent, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox has been given planning approval
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Byrne Brothers beats Doyle to £50m Shard concrete package
Mace has awarded Byrne Brothers the concrete package for the £425m Shard tower at London Bridge – a deal worth just under £50m
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Two consortiums win Olympic plant hire contract
Two consortiums have been awarded licences to run two plant hire centres on the Olympic site in a bid to improve efficiency among contractors in the build-up to the 2012 games
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Last year’s inflation continues to push construction costs up
The cost of all types of construction work is still increasing year on year despite the downturn, research carried out for Building by cost consultant Davis Langdon has shown
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BAA vows to cut costs on Heathrow over next four years
BAA has said it will rein in costs on its upgrade of Heathrow airport by raising professional standards