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NewsDevelopers kicked off Stratford City project
London & Continental Railway terminates agreement with Reuben brothers, Westfield and Stanhope after three failed to agree on project.
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NewsKeller predicts substantial increase in profit
Half year profit will be 'substantially higher' than last year due to strong sales and higher margins.
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NewsLafarge posts record first quarter sales
Materials giant records sales of £2.6bn, up 28% on the first three months of 2005.
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NewsGovernment fuels biomass boilers with £15m grant
Government offers £10m-£15m grant for biomass boilers and announces new biomass energy centre.
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Roofing giant Coverite goes into administration
Subcontractor on Multiplex's £1.5bn White City scheme calls in Deloitte & Touche to oversee sale of assets
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Comment
Giving and receiving
Melville entered into a contract for the design, construction and completion of a residential development in Glasgow. The contract form was the Scottish Building Contract with Contractor's Design Sectional Completion Edition (January 2000 Revision) issued by the SBCC. It incorporated the conditions of the JCT With Contractor's Design 1998. ...
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NewsCleveland Bridge under fire from Multiplex bosses
Ashley Muldoon and Matt Stagg reveal how relations with Wembley steel contractor degenerated
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NewsMuldoon: Cleveland Bridge is ‘incompetent and devious'
Multiplex project manager denounces steel subcontractor in opening statement as Wembley case gets under way
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NewsGround Zero work begins
Bulldozers move onto World Trade Center site to begin building the £3.5bn Freedom Tower.
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NewsGlasgow to get biggest inland wind farm in Europe
Scottish Executive grants planning permission for £300m project at Whitelee, south of Glasgow.
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NewsCarillion offloads Mowlem environmental arm
Mowlem Environmental Sciences Group to be sold to testing specialist Inspicio for £16m.
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NewsStratford masterplan hit by auction delay
Plans are ready but have not been submitteed for planning because of dispute between developers.
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Roofing giant Coverite goes into administration
Subcontractor on Multiplex's £1.5bn White City scheme calls in Deloitte & Touche to oversee sale of assets.
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CommentThe collaboration game
The non-adversarial NEC3 contracts could serve the Olympic project well, but the design team needed to drive it forward raises some tricky questions of its own
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CommentIt'll run rings round them
The Olympics will be like every other project - ridden with bluffers, slackers and buck passers - but a dispute resolution board can keep them all in order
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Comment
Want your money back?
The problem of bid costs in PFI schemes has been highlighted again at Bart's. It therefore makes sense to know when and how you can claw back your cash
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CommentBefore the tribunal
Firms that don't deal with discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability and - from October - age, risk being hauled up by employment tribunals
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CommentSimplicate your language
The government wants housebuilders to treat customers fairly, and has threatened to crack down on those who use arcane and unintelligible language in their contracts
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Comment
Keeping at arm's length
The government should temper its move to replace the Decent Homes standard with a wider benchmark by taking into account the achievements of many arm's length management organisations to date.