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CommentThe rules of the Games
Back in February, Jack Lemley, the new chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, waltzed into a room full of lawyers after two months in the job and set out his stall: disputes on Olympic construction projects will be dealt with during the construction process and not after it.
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NewsCBI to set up PFI lobby group for members
The CBI is setting up a PFI lobby group, to be headed by John Pilkington of support services group Amey
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Goldman Sachs consortium set to join fight for BAA
BAA is likely to become the subject of a bidding war after it emerged that an investment bank could trump Spanish construction group Ferrovial's £8.75bn offer for the company.
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Record profit at Severfield
Steel fabricator Severfield-Rowen has reported a 60% leap in profit for the year to 31 December 2005, in record results for the company.
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Jarvis appoints John O'Kane finance director
Jarvis, the infrastructure support services group, has appointed John O'Kane finance director.
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NewsOlympic Delivery Authority appoints 12-person board
Panel includes Lorraine Baldry, chair of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, and Neale Coleman, policy director to the mayor of London.
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NewsUniversity gains fresh injunction against protesters
Oxford University wins High Court order to further llimit protest against construction of its animal testing laboratory.
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NewsTreasury gives go-ahead for £559m QE hospital
Agonising wait over for Queen Elizabeth Hospital as Treasury gives PFI scheme the green light.
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NewsAtkins boosted by Olympic work
Consultant says that contract wins in design group will help push 2006 profit towards the upper end of expectations.
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £400m power engineering deals
Largest contract, at £40m, for the construction giant is for the development of overhead transmission infrastructure in Queensland, Australia.
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NewsThree workers seriously injured in scaffolding collapse
Contractor McAleer & Rushe issues statement following accident on Milton Keynes building site.
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NewsJarvis appoints finance director
John O'Kane to join board of infrastructure services group from the end of April, following last year's completion of financial restructuring.
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Edinburgh contractor Peter Walker collapses
Fifty-million-pound turnover firm goes into administration, with the loss of 344 jobs.
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Balfour Beatty and Jarvis approached to build Russian motorway
Contractors contacted by the Kremlin over £8bn PPP deal to build Moscow-St Petersburg highway.
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Gleeson Building lands £14.5m Liverpool pool deal
Gleeson is appointed by Liverpool council on 50 m swimming pool project, in the Wavertree area of the city, to start in June 2006.
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NewsJacobs joins Amec/ Balfour Olympic bid team
US engineering specialist, Amec and Balfour will bid for the delivery partner contract as the G3 partnership.
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NewsKeller scoops up groundworks specialist Phi for £5m
Ground engineer Keller plans to integrate new acquisition but Phi managing director stays on.
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NewsUS modular firm snaps up Caledonian Building Systems
Champion Enterprises buys modular building specialist for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsLafarge denies stalking Hanson
Lafarge chief executive Bruno Lafont says UK materials firm is not on the menu.