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Kier has plenty to celebrate after busy festive period
Business barometer Contractor tops December league with £293m of contract wins
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NewsEP aims to attract £10bn from City
The team overseeing the establishment of Communities England is exploring ways of using its £4bn a year budget to obtain City money for housing and regeneration.
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NewsFoster to sell firm ‘within three months’
Architect Lord Foster will sell all or part of his practice within three months – and has already put his penthouse at the firm’s headquarters in Battersea, west London, on the market.
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NewsMarch opening for Wembley
Stadium is to finally let public through its doors for local community day
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NewsFoster to sell firm ‘within three months’
Lord Foster has already put his penthouse at the London practice on the market
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CommentWhere Rudi went wrong
State your case Rudi Klein’s assertion that specialists are losing out because main contractors are telling them what products to use doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Nice guys who finish first
SME focus HawkinsBrown will not let friendliness get in the way of ambitious growth plans
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Barratt wins 800 unit East End regeneration
Barratt Developments has pipped Countryside Properties in the race for an 800 home regeneration project on the edge of the Olympic Park.
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KPMG to scrutinise CLM’s Olympic budget
Accountant to validate delivery partner’s provisional budget
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AYH appoints five directors
Major restructure sees construction and property consultant create new director group and eight sector heads
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NewsFire brigade issues stark warning to high-rise sites
Manchester fire chief warns industry that water cannot be pumped higher than 60m
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Treasury review cuts OGC staff by half
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is to lose half its staff as a result of an overhaul announced by the Treasury this weeky.
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NewsM&E firm sues Laing O’Rourke over Coventry stadium
Haden Young demands £3.5m to cover acceleration costs on troubled Coventry City project
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NewsCurrie & Brown spat resolved
Angus McLean, the former chairman of Currie & Brown, has withdrawn his claim of unfair dismissal in the run-up to an employment tribunal hearing this week.
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NewsWiddecombe’s simple solution
Making the news For Ann Widdecombe urban regeneration starts with blowing up the big estates
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CommentMore fuel to the fire
I was quoted in a news article last week (12 January) on the serious fire at the timber-frame construction site in Colindale, north London. I think several statements in the story require clarification.
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Not a question of materials
A fire strategy can only work effectively if passive fire protection measures (structural steelwork protection, fire-resistant paints, fire-resistant glazing, and so on) are built into the structure.
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Age concern
I read with great interest both the letter written by a reader (6 October, page 38) and your blog on section 106 restraints in the retirement sector.
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Fit for the Olympics
I must take issue with Steve Rudd’s letter (12 January) regarding compensation events under the NEC3 contract. His comments only serve to perpetuate a fallacy that I have heard many times before.
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CommentThe Scottish no-water diving champion
Thanks to Alan McConkey of loss adjuster Cunningham Lindsey for this one. Alan writes: “This was taken in Glasgow in December 2006.