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Consultant Wakemans promotes three to its board of directors
Also: development firm Targetfellow announces joint managing directors
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Skanska makes pensions compulsory for supply chain
Construction union Ucatt claimed a historic victory this week after Skanska became the first contractor to require its suppliers to offer their staff pensions.
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NewsTaywood boss bags £2m for seven months’ work
Bumper payouts for senior executives coincides with housebuilder’s plunge into the red
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NewsCrest slows construction of flagship Birmingham project
Chief executive admits sales rate has halved at £261m Park Central since credit crunch began
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FeaturesServer farms: Where the internet lives
They may look like simple sheds but server farms are the nerve centres of the digital age. And considering they can cost up to £1,000/ft2, building them is big business for M&E contractors. Report includes sustainability discussion
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An unfair adjudication: Humes Building Contractors Ltd vs Charlotte Homes (Surrey) Ltd
Humes Building Contractors Ltd sought to enforce by way of summary judgment an adjudicator’s decision for £158,486.26 plus VAT. The building contract was based upon a JCT Intermediate Form of Building Contract with Contractors Design 2005 Edition. Relations between the parties deteriorated and the defendant purported to terminate the contract ...
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NewsScotland opens £90m biomass power station
Steven's Croft in Lockerbie could more than doubles Scotland's biomass electricity
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NewsImages: Wilkinson Eyre's Dyson school in Bath
Council grants planning for Dyson design school despite complaints from heritage groups and the Environment Agency
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CommentBecoming one
Many projects go wrong because the way they’re set up means they have no chance of going right. But what has that got to do with the Zen of marine engine repair?
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Government instigates Building Regulation revolution
Two years after it began, Building’s Reform the Regs campaign ends in victory
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NewsOnly two architects have won Olympic village work
Glenn Howells and Patel Taylor are commissioned from August’s framework of 47
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NewsThe Scottish enlightenment
Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, near Glasgow, was lit up last week as part of North Lanarkshire council’s initiative to promote the area for regeneration and growth.
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NewsPidgley optimistic despite 20% sales drop
Tony Pidgley, the chief executive of Berkeley Group, says his firm is performing better than he feared, despite a 20% slump in sales in the four months to 31 January 2008.
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Development bodies in doubt
A senior civil servant at the communities department has refused to guarantee the future of development corporations set up to aid the construction of 160,000 homes in the Thames Gateway.
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Report slams Scottish school building programme
A third of schools in poor condition and new schools reveal design problems, despite £3.9bn investment
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NewsAxe hangs over Minerva's Croydon mall
Lend Lease deal 'to stall' on Park Place redevelopment featuring John Lewis store
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Reinwood vs Brown: You again?
The highest court in the land has just given its second decision on the Construction Act. Never mind the parties, it’s two wins out of two for the JCT…
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CommentIcon, you con, we con, they con …
Open mike To say you’re going to produce an iconic building is an act of hubris, a confession of illiteracy and a good indication that you don’t really understand design.
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NewsHousing gloom after US bank crashes
Housebuilders prepare for tough market conditions as lenders tighten mortgage criteria
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£130m rail upgrade put on hold
Basingstoke resignalling project held up as resources are diverted to West Coast mainline works