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£110m contract for Carillion and Balfour Beatty
GTBB joint venture awarded rail electrification deal for West Coast Mainline.
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Mouchel Parkman lands £2m Yorkshire Water contract
Consulting engineer to advise on areas that most need improvement work in three-year deal.
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BPB given time to fight Saint-Gobain takeover bid
UK plasterboard firm to delay publishing new information about Saint-Gobain’s hostile bid until 25 November so it can appeal to shareholders to reject the deal.
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Developers announced for £500m Telford community
George Wimpey UK, Persimmon Homes and Barratt Homes will team up to build 70 ha urban development in Lawley, Telford, after winning contract from English Partnerships.
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Costs: Kitchen furniture
Kitchen furniture needs to look good and, even more importantly, withstand a lot of wear and tear. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans assesses the options and their whole-life costs
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Residential
A sophisticated prefabricated timber system that helped unlock a particularly awkward infill site in central London has been shortlisted for a Wood Award.
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Olympic staging body formally established
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, or LOCOG, was officially set up yesterday at the first meeting of its transition board, chaired by Sebastian Coe.
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ISG InteriorExterior wins fit-out for 1 Bankside
Contractor lands deal for 450,000 ft2 IPC Media headquarters on London's South Bank.
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Carillion-led venture wins £350m BT contract
Monteray, a joint venture between Carillion, Haden Building Management and Reliance Integrated Services, extends facilities management contract until March 2009.
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Remaining charges dropped in Hatfield rail case
Prosecutors drop case against four Balfour Beatty employees accused of breaching safety rules before crash.
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Blair faces cabinet opposition to new nuclear plants
The Guardian says that Blair faces opposition from the cabinet over a nuclear future, while the Daily Telegraph says the government may allow more than one supercasino.
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Gordon Morrison buys social housing firm Richardson
The man behind the growth of Morrison Construction in the 1990s buys Beckenham-based refurbishment firm for an undisclosed sum.
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Bouygues preferred bidder on school PFI
Peterborough City Council names Bouygues consortium as preferred bidder for £68m PFI.
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Gardiner & Theobald’s global alliance severed in turf war
Agreement with fellow QSs Rider Hunt and Levett & Bailey breaks down over operations in Chinese market
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Mowlem to close down or sell loss-making businesses
Contractor announces plan to cut some operations, with combined turnover of £50m, after declaring £73m loss.
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Gardiner & Theobald’s global alliance severed in turf war
Agreement with fellow QSs Rider Hunt and Levett & Bailey breaks down over operations in Chinese market.
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Livingstone plans to seize control of Thames Gateway
London mayor aims to bring Gateway regions of Thurrock and Dartford under Greater London Authority umbrella
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Government under fire over energy regulations ‘cop-out’
Environment experts accuse the ODPM of dropping some changes to Part L for reasons of political expediency