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Westbury reports 26% fall in profit
Housebuilder reveals 26% fall to £45.5m for the half-year to 31 August 2005.
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NewsMacCormac Jamieson Prichard dropped at Broadcasting House
Construction team blames creative differences for termination of architect's contract at BBC landmark.
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Balfour Beatty start on £100m City scheme
Redesign of old De Beers headquarters by architect Rolfe Judd will act as gateway to City.
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Wolseley acquires Encon for £140m
Wolseley expands European distribution business with purchase of insulation material supplier.
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Prescott rejects Stevenage expansion plan
Deputy prime minister turns down 5000-home extension plan, but is 'minded to grant' 3600-home alternative.
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Unison claims PFI is 'built on sand'
Public sector union steps up campaign to get procurement route scrapped.
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BAA names preferred suppliers
Mason Land Surveys and Halcrow Group named referred suppliers for land and building consultancy services for work on the firm’s seven UK airports.
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NewsVinci sizes up Mowlem as takeover rumours swirl
UK board of French giant said to be pushing to buy ailing contractor; other large firms also interested.
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CommentConsider the evidence
After an accident such as Hatfield, prosecutors come under pressure to launch a case. But too often they go ahead without having a leg to stand on
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Hot air
The defendants installed an extractor fan on their property which protruded through the side of the wall into the claimant’s rear garden. The claimant commenced legal proceedings arguing that the extractor fan trespassed into her garden and that it also constituted a nuisance. The claimant sought an injunction requiring the ...
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Laing O’Rourke staff lose bonuses as profit falls £35m
Thousands of staff miss out on lucrative perk as contractor’s profit plunges from £61m to £26m
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Laing O’Rourke staff lose bonuses as profit falls £35m
Thousands of staff miss out on lucrative perk as contractor’s profit plunges from £61m to £26m.
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CommentRed-tape rollback
The European commission has taken the first tentative steps in its campaign to make EU businesses more competitive by cutting regulation. And there’s a long way to go …
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Handled with care
A new accreditation scheme is offering training and indemnity insurance to construction professionals taking on the vital role of asbestos inspectors
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On being naughty
Is this a cautionary tale of an innocent subcontractor hounded by the big bad tax man? Or was its ‘minor and technical’ infraction actually something more?
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CommentLet the games end
More and more decent contractors are opting out of tricky public projects. If the government wants us back to build its Olympics, it’ll just have to outlaw retentions
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CommentGoing global
Global expansion should never be a vanity project and requires mastery of a tricky formula, but the payback for clients, staff and corporation can be immense
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FeaturesAt first It was like the battle of the Somme
Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …
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FeaturesCity Hall revist: Time has told
Ken Livingstone did not want Building to revisit his ‘Beehive’ City Hall three years after completion. Could it be that this 21st-century landmark has not achieved its low-energy targets?