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CommentCustard pies
Facebook and LinkedIn are the latest players in social networking. Which you choose depends on whether you prefer to talk to managing directors or throw cakes at them.
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NewsCouncils may pull out of PFI social housing market
Government expected to give go-ahead for authorities to take out loans using own resources
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NewsDavis Langdon to report third successive year of growth
Consultant retains top spot as global turnover reaches £221m for year to April 2007
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A warning
The claimant, Hart Investments, sought to hold the first defendant, Fidler, responsible for the collapse of part a building that Hart owned. Fidler was a structural engineer and denied responsibility for the collapse. He was employed by both the claimant and the second defendant, building contractor Larchpark.Hart alleged that Fidler ...
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NewsFoster profit soars 136% with ‘further rises to come’
Architect pays himself £2.9m and buys the practice’s aircraft after making £5.9m profit
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CommentNobody’s forcing you to do it
The Construction Act deals a knock-out blow to adjudicators who try to hold on to the award until they get paid. But if the parties don’t like that rule, they don’t have to adjudicate at all
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Scottish offices put Bovis Lend Lease on top in May
Business barometer … and they also catapult Bowmer & Kirkland into second place
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Metronet looks to reduce workload
Metronet, the PPP company responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of two-thirds of London Underground, is trying to reduce the scope of the work it undertakes, writes Angela Monaghan.
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NewsMultiplex family sells up after 45 years
Contractor to be sold to asset manager Brookfield for £3.1bn
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Disaster on your hands? Take notes!
If your supplier gets it wrong and costs you sleepless nights and wasted days, you can claim money for your lost time. A recent case illustrates the latest legal thinking on how you do it …
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NewsReid and 3D combine forces
Reid Architecture has become one of the UK’s 10 largest practices after merging with Scottish rival 3D Architecture.
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NewsFoster profit soars 136% with ‘further rises to come’
Architect pays himself £2.9m and buys the practice’s aircraft after making £5.9m profit
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Metronet looks to reduce workload
Company in dispute with London Underground over cost overruns expected to reach between £750m and £1.2bn by 2010
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Managed to death
A Treasury crackdown on tax avoidance may spell the end for ‘managed service’ companies. Rebecca Power explains what this will mean for the firms that use them
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News‘No approval’ for collapsed building
The cause of a building collapse in Victoria, central London, remained uncertain as Building went to press.
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NewsDavis Langdon to report third successive year of growth
Consultant retains top spot as global turnover reaches £221m for year to April 2007
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Multiplex family sells up after 45 years
Contractor to be sold to asset manager Brookfield for £3.1bn
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NewsCrane collapse firm was warned
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a warning in February to the firm whose crane collapsed in Croydon, south London, last week.
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International sale of safety test sparks new CSCS row
Board fears export of CITB-owned test will encourage unqualified workers to come to the UK