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NewsLandAmerica becomes CNP’s parent company
US property and financial firm acquires all shares in consultant
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First school completed in Gleeds' £200m PFI project
Four more new secondary schools to be built in 'huge' Northamptonshire scheme
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NewsIt’s anybody’s world
Quantity surveying is no longer a man’s world, says a young female QS at RLF Liverpool
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Gleeds appoints new associate director
Kevin Trash becomes associate director of consultant's Tunbridge Wells office
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CommentWeb watch In memoriam
Bill and Ben, Sheffield’s legendary cooling towers, are about to be knocked down, but there is no consensus on a campaign to preserve them as a commemorative sculpture.
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CommentThe zero game
We need to reach an understanding of what we mean by a zero-carbon home. Until then, the debate will continue to be governed by politics and hot air
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £200m of work in Far East
Projects will take place in Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and China over the next five years
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NewsUK firms to masterplan war-torn Iraqi city
Pell Frischmann and Llewellyn Davies Yeang to work on redevelopment of Kirkuk
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NewsBalfour Beatty continues acquisition drive with Cowlin
Contractor expands presence in South-west with purchase of £52m Bristol-based company
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Councils plan for 3 million homes target
Local authorities across England have spent the summer thrashing out plans for a new wave of council housebuilding.Councils such as the London boroughs of Croydon, Islington and Barnet, as well as Norwich and Newcastle, are understood to be leading the way in responding to July’s housing green paper.In it, housing ...
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NewsBovis set to take on £400m MediaCity:UK scheme
Lower-risk construction management role is most likely option on first phase of Salford project
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NewsHSE confirms building workers responsible for foot and mouth
Final report says construction activities near the effluent drainage system caused contamination
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CommentFools rush in
Open mike Graham Watts is furious that the industry is wasting an opportunity to reform the Construction Act, but Rudi Klein says we may lose the chance forever if we jump in without thinking
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CommentOpening Pandora’s box
The proposal to drop the ‘contracts in writing’ rule has won praise on these pages. But what this does is let the adjudicator decide what’s in the contract – with untold consequences for dispute resolution
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CommentHappy ever after
Main contractors and subcontractors make all kinds of rash promises during the courting stage. Then they quarrel. A new toolkit from the National Specialist Contractors Council aims to keep things sweet to the end
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NewsCarillion set for £2.6bn of Middle East work
Carillion said this week that it was set to win £2.6bn of extra work in the Middle East and North Africa.
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NewsWSP shares bounce after 33% profit hike
Shares in consultant engineer WSP had risen almost 7% by Tuesday after its latest results revealed that it had surpassed growth expectations.
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NewsRMJM submits masterplan for regeneration of Leith Docks
Architect reveals design for largest planning application in Edinburgh’s history
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Mouchel Parkman releases software to slash energy costs for water firms
Consultant teams up with engineering firm Derceto to introduce technology that can save energy bills by up to 15%