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  • News

    Contracts

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    New contracts this week

  • News

    Berkeley’s results boosted by takeover of St James Homes

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Berkeley Group’s shareholders received a £600m cash return as the housebuilder produced solid results for the year ending 30 April.

  • News

    Purcell Miller Tritton merges with Bristol-based architect

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Architect Purcell Miller Tritton has merged with Bristol-based firm Niall Phillips Architects.

  • News

    Tom Hunter branches out

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Property entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter has entered the regeneration sector after buying a stake in the Manchester-based firm Inpartnership.

  • News

    Brown’s next ‘eco’ step

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Brown was this week due to announce the latest moves in his drive to build five eco towns.

  • News

    Smoking refuges

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Ridge has managed the provision of “smoking shelters” for Rank, the casino and bingo chain, in time for the smoking ban which came into force in England on Sunday.

  • News

    Pay deal rejected

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Electrical contracting members of the Unite union have rejected a 5% pay rise over three years.

  • News

    Laing appointment

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    John Laing has appointed Lynn Macgregor group finance director. She joined the John Laing finance team in 1999.

  • News

    Hips loopholes

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Loopholes that enable homeowners to avoid Home Information Packs, such as removing a bed to turn it into a three bedroom property, will make the scheme “unenforceable” according to critics.

  • News

    Tesco pay protests

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Tesco shareholders have hit back over a bonus scheme that would see Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive, take home an extra £11.5m on top of his salary.

  • News

    £4.8m SQ1 sale

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    SQ1, the venture partnership between Miller Developments and Rutterford, has sold the former Motorola site in South Queensferry, Scotland, to Balfour Beatty Rail Track Systems for £4.8m.

  • News

    Prescott defied advice on Vauxhall tower

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    The decision by John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, to allow a skyscraper in south London, went directly against advice from his officials, it has been disclosed.

  • News

    Lesson for Kazakhstan

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    HOK has revealed these designs for a school in the Kazakh city of Almaty. It is linked to Haileybury school in Hertfordshire and will be the first British branded school to be built in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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    The desert blooms in Saudi Arabia

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Architect Barton Willmore and civil engineer Buro Happold have won a competition to design a futuristic botanical garden and leisure centre in Saudi Arabia.

  • Sustainability
    News

    Too much waste going to landfill sites, says review of London

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    More renewable energy is being used in London but too much waste is going to landfill, causing harmful greenhouse gases, according to an environmental report by Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London.

  • News

    Merton pioneers eco solution

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Merton council is set to pioneer a green technology, which it claims will be more efficient than burning biomass.

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    Balfour Beatty and Multiplex tie up £311m PPP hospitals

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty has reached financial close on a £311m PPP hospital project in West Yorkshire.

  • News

    Smart Guy’s

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Crispin & Borst is putting the finishing touches to this boiler house scheme at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in central London.

  • News

    Appointments

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Comment

    A standard position

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Reinwood Ltd appealed the court’s finding that L Brown & Sons Ltd had validly determined its employment under the contract on the grounds that Reinwood had continued to fail to pay the amount properly due under an interim certificate by the final date for payment. Reinwood and Brown entered into ...