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Latchways reports 26% increase in profits
Fall arrest systems manufacturer sees turnover rise to £31.9m
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NewsHadid’s Olympic aquatics centre faces more cuts
Architect loses control of design as contractors work to scale back costs again
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CommentStrict time
Surely a contractor has a right to claim for an extension of time if the delay was the fault of the employer? Well no, not necessarily, according to the third edition of the NEC
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CommentIn safe hands
With its CDM webinar and awards coverage, nobody could accuse the Building website of not taking health and safety seriously. But that doesn’t mean there’s no room for humour.
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Brown sets out stall to expand home ownership
Ruth Kelly expected to announce plans to extend share-purchase schemes for social tenants
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NewsPractices may have to close as SMC faces meltdown
Share price of AIM-listed architect group continues to drop as founder Stewart McColl resigns
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Office politics
Regus (UK) Limited supplies serviced office accommodation. Epcot Solutions Ltd provides professional IT training. Epcot entered into an agreement with Regus on Regus’ usual terms and conditions for the use of serviced office accommodation for Epcot’s training courses. Epcot initially rented office accommodation in Heathrow. After Regus closed this location, ...
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NewsHadid’s Olympic aquatics centre faces more cuts
Architect loses control of design as contractors work to scale back costs again
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NewsREID Architecture and 3D Architects announce merger
3DReid will boast 320 employees and a £20m turnover making it one of the top ten practices in the UK
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NewsRICS members in Hips revolt
Petition demands withdrawal of proposal for ‘costly’ judicial review of home information packs
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CommentLet the supplier beware
You may have taken every precaution to make sure a contract is watertight but a consumer can claim a term isn’t fair if it puts them at a significant disadvantage
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NewsMace caps year of big wins with 20% leap in profit
Construction group looks to future with optimism as 67% of 2007 order book is secured
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NewsEP acts to discourage buy-to-let investors
Regeneration body to introduce legal covenant preventing buyers from renting their property
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GLA to trial hydrogen cells at flagship green office
London agency reveals its technology for the future after failure of wind turbines
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NewsTaylor Wimpey to keep building arm
Taylor Wimpey, the £6.7bn-turnover housebuilder that will be created when George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow merge, is to retain its construction division.
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Magnitude of crane safety neglect exposed by HSE
Four workers narrowly escape death in a crane collapse in Croydon as the Health and Safety Executive lists a seven-year catalogue of serious errors
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If the cap fits…
Cost capping orders may not have extended to construction cases yet, but the courts are becoming increasingly willing to use their powers to limit recoverable costs
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NewsGensler enters property consultancy
International architect Gensler is expanding into property consultancy in the UK after poaching two senior managers from consultant Donaldsons.
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NewsEC Harris lands £19bn Middle East bonanza
Alliance with Dubai property firm is one of the world’s biggest project management deals