More news – Page 3637
-
News
Multiplex sets out Wembley legal defence
Wembley contractor Multiplex has rejected claims made last week by Cleveland Bridge that it tried to bust the firm with an "armageddon plan".
-
News
Balfour gives up on Mowlem
Balfour Beatty said on Wednesday afternoon that it was pulling out of the battle with Carillion to buy Mowlem.
-
News
Latham confident that training levy will survive
Sir Michael Latham, chairman of CITB-ConstructionSkills, is confident that the government will act to preserve the statutory training levy despite a decline in industry support for the measure.
-
News
Sir Fraser Morrison and AWG to pay £9m each in legal fees
Sir Fraser Morrison, the founder of construction group Morrison, and AWG, the parent company of Anglian Water, are facing legal fees of up to £9m each in their upcoming £130m court battle.
-
News
Arrest of lab protesters
Five protesters were this week arrested during a demonstration against the construction of an animal research laboratory at Oxford University.
-
News
Wates quits Barking
Contractor Wates has quit the £100m Barking town centre project after housebuilder Redrow took control of it from developer Urban Catalyst.
-
NewsThe Heron takes flight
Heron Tower, the London office block designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, was granted planning permission this week.
-
News
Minister backs specialists in row over fair payments
Subcontractors elated over the DTI's proposed changes to the Construction Act; contractors call plans a ‘burden'
-
News
Amec forms alliance to take on nuclear clean-up
Contractor Amec has formed an alliance with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and nuclear decommissioning specialist CH2M Hill to pitch for work in the UK's £56bn nuclear clean-up market.
-
NewsCaught in a famous shadow
Developer Land Securities has secured planning permission for its 93,000 m2 One New Change office and retail unit next to St Paul's in the City of London.
-
News
Buro Happold to double size of US workforce to 120
Engineer to open larger officer in New York as it moves to reduce dependence on UK market
-
News
Cyril Sweett forecasts 30% rise in profit to £4.3m
Consultant Cyril Sweett has predicted that pre-tax profit will increase 30% to £4.3m in the year to March.
-
News
Reshuffle at Miller Homes
Miller Group, the Scottish housebuilder, contractor and commercial developer, has restructured its housebuilding business after its £264m acquisition of Fairclough Homes last September.
-
NewsSouth-east assembly backs planning tax
Regional planners in the South east have backed government steps to tax development land.
-
NewsHousing minister Cooper in row over shared ownership
Yvette Cooper tells MPs that plans to increase number of households with equity stake will go ahead
-
Comment
In imminent danger
The defendant, Canary Wharf took out a project insurance policy with the claimant insurance company, Gerling for the construction of several buildings at Canary Wharf. During construction there was a serious accident involving a collapsed tower crane. Following the accident, Canary Wharf decided to use a different method to erect ...
-
NewsClose comes closer
Planning inspectors have overturned a decision by a west London council to refuse planning permission for a lakeside residential scheme.
-
FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Structures
In the first of our specialist updates, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at current trends and costs in the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork markets
-
FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector