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Owens Corning buys Saint-Gobain business unit for £315m
The reinforcements and composites business being acquired had a turnover of £480.8m in 2006
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NewsSpeedy Hire snaps up Waterford Hire Services
Tool and equipment hire firm extends presence in Ireland with £4.4m acquisition
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NewsWill the QS visa victory lead to a drop in pay for the profession?
Our QS readership is split on the impact of the profession making it to a list of endangered professions. Some reckon it's going to burn a hole in their pockets while others see it as a short term fix for overworked staff.
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Third time unlucky
HG Construction Limited was engaged as contractor by Ashwell Homes (East Anglia) Limited for the development of new housing in Cambridgeshire. The contract was based on the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract With Contractor’s Design (1998 Edition). The contract provided for sectional completion. Disputes arose and there were four ...
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Put it in writing
The claimant, Mott MacDonald Ltd (MM), is a specialist construction engineering consultant. It undertook a variety of engineering services for the defendant, property developer London & Regional Properties Ltd (LRP) in relation to the phase 2 infrastructure works for a business park at Park Royal, London. These services, which included ...
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CommentSupreme indifference
The construction industry has largely ignored the JCT’s prime cost contract, largely because it doesn’t do prime cost procurement. But that may change in the near future …
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CommentHere’s the pitch
Our industry will never have the skills or resources to communicate to a mass audience in the way of a great film director like Sydney Pollack, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a trick or two ...
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NewsCapita Symonds to create UK’s fifth biggest architect
Capita Architecture to be formed out of three subsidiaries, with more purchases on the cards
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Government pledges £8bn for affordable housing
Green paper commits to building 70,000 social and shared ownership homes in next three years
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NewsCarillion goes to court over scrapped £1.2bn deal
Contractor sues Bradford council for £40m over contract – and others may follow suit if it wins
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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NewsArmitt predicts Olympics “hiccups and tensions”
Incoming ODA chairman claims budget under control and defends the logo
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CommentYou bought it, you pay for it
Question: When does a main contractor have to pay a subcontractor for work that it hasn’t done? Answer: When it agreed a fixed-price lump sum contract based on issued drawings …
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CommentBuilding windmills in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Open mike — The GLA wants office buildings to generate 20% of the energy they use. The only problem with this, says Richard Kauntze, is it can’t be done. So here’s a proposal that will work
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Housing output ‘set to fall’ in next two years
Private housing output is set to fall over the next two years as land shortages take their toll, according to the latest forecast from market analyst Experian.
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NewsBacklash against eco-towns
The government should focus more on improving housing in urban areas instead of building eco-towns, according to the regeneration director of Birmingham council.
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NewsIndustry drafted in to help areas stricken by floods
Construction firms prepare to lead recovery effort as housebuilders count cost of flooding
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NewsZero carbon ‘adds 30% to cost’
Cost of going zero carbon in 2016 could add 30% to the average construction cost of a home
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What’s the best way to build a tower?
Tall buildings are shooting up all over Britain. This raises the question: which procurement route should you use to construct them? Here’s the first of two articles on this very question