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FeaturesCarillion didn’t buy a pup, it was a monster. How would it tame mowlem?
It thought it was getting a fabulous £12bn defence contract tied to an old-style contractor with one or two financial issues, but then came the midnight snacks, and the multimillion-pound writedowns ... Carillion’s boss John McDonough tells Angela Monaghan what happened over the next year
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NewsAmnesty in Milan
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has designed this 5,000m2 curvilinear building to stimulate public interaction and debate about human rights.
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NewsViñoly’s cube-shaped vision
Rafael Viñoly’s Atlas Building for the University of Wagingen in the Netherlands was due to open yesterday.
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NewsNouvels plate-balancing act
This £130m concert hall by French architect Jean Nouvel is scheduled to open in the Parc de la Villette, in north-east Paris, in 2012.
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Illegal T5 worker deported
Fresh security concerns have hit Heathrow Terminal 5 after a Home Office raid found an illegal immigrant on the site.
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Butler poached
Andy Butler, a director at Stanhope, is to become development director of the Explore Living housebuilding arm of Laing O’Rourke from June, overseeing projects including Napier Park in Luton.
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Tescos record profit
Tesco has announced record pre-tax profit of £2.6bn in the year to 24 February.
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Green offices: cheaper than you might think ...
A report commissioned by Building says a 2.5% increase in rents could make new-build offices 25% more energy efficient than the current version of Part L of the Building Regulations.
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NewsWorkers remember the dead
Unions in Liverpool will mark Workers Memorial Day on 28 April by laying a wreath at the place where a crane collapse killed a worker earlier this year.
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NewsKelly named Personality of the Year
Benny Kelly, pictured, a director at Sir Robert McAlpine, was named Personality of the Year at the 2007 Building Awards on Wednesday.
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Erinaceous’ price rises on back of bid speculation
Property services consultant Erinaceous has received preliminary takeover approaches that may lead to an offer, it said this week.
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Amec disposals
Amec has sold Buchan Concrete Solutions to specialist contractor Roger Bullivant and Dynamic Structures, its steel business, to Empire Industries.
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ISG buys Cathedral
Interior Services Group has acquired fit-out specialist Cathedral Contracts for £11.8m.
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Vinci profit jumps
Vinci has reported a 60% rise in profit for 2006, up to £32m, from £20m the previous year.
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Healthy results
Support services group Mouchel Parkman has reported a 17% profit rise to £13.6m for the six months to 31 January 2007.
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QCs enter legal spat over bird protection areas
The government’s wildlife watchdog has called in top QCs to defend its moratorium on new housing across a large stretch of the Home Counties.
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Dandara unveils Glasgow plans
Developer Dandara has unveiled a £180m scheme to build a residential development on the Clyde waterfront in Glasgow.
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£4m facelift for Hull
Hull’s Gateway, the housing market renewal pathfinder for Kingston upon Hull, has awarded local contractor Hobson & Porter a £4m deal to give a facelift to 370 homes in the city’s rundown St Anne’s district.