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NewsSales down 6% at Wickes
Builders' merchant Travis Perkins says overall turnover will increase despite poor performance of retail arm Wickes.
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NewsTaylor Woodrow's £20m city academy faces axe
Spiralling costs deal fresh blow to Tony Blair's flagship initiative to deliver 200 city academies by 2010.
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NewsEP chair shakes up senior management team
Dennis Hone becomes chief operating officer ahead of John Callcutt's appointment as chief executive next month
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NewsDrechsler turns round Wates with healthy set of results
Private contractor proves it is out of the doldrums, recording a sharp rise in profit to £10.6m
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NewsTaylor Woodrow's £20m city academy faces axe
Spiralling costs deal fresh blow to Tony Blair's flagship initiative to deliver 200 city academies by 2010
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This was an application for declaratory relief to establish that the payment claim issued by United Group Infrastructure Pty Ltd dated 14 November 2005 was not a payment claim that is subject to the regime for assessment and adjudication established by the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004.Pioneer Sugar ...
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NewsBAA repeats warning over Ferrovial offer
Airport operator reiterates its warning to shareholders to reject an £8.75bn takeover approach by Spanish contractor, after its takeover offer was officially posted last night.
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NewsWembley steelworkers on 12-hour night shifts
Wembley steelworkers are to be put on 12-hour night shifts as part of a deal to speed up contractor Hollandia's section of the project.
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NewsHousebuilders slam bird protection rules
housebuilders fear that Conservative councils in the Home Counties will exploit measures to protect rare birds to delay or block development in the South-east that they are opposed to in principle.
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NewsBAA rejects £9.4bn Goldman Sachs offer
UK airport operator BAA formally rejected a £9.4bn takeover approach from a consortium led by investment bank Goldman Sachs on Tuesday.
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Stratford developers receive ultimatum
Warring developers Stanhope, Westfield and the billionaire Reuben brothers could be kicked off the Stratford City scheme entirely if they fail to settle their differences by today.
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NewsCameron pledges to scrap climate change levy
The Tory leader, set to make his first major speech on the environment later today, will say that carbon-cutting mechanism is ineffective and should be replaced.
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NewsEmployers' body rounds on NHS over PFI delays
CBI report claims that procurement process wastes an average of £2.45m per major hospital scheme
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NewsNew CPA president takes on energy price crisis
John Colley sets out his stall on key issues for building product manufacturers ahead of government talks
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NewsBlair sounds out firms over animal extremist threat
Government to ask construction companies whether climate of intimidation makes them reluctant to tender
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EP chair shakes up senior management team
Dennis Hone becomes chief operating officer ahead of John Callcutt's appointment as chief executive next month.
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NewsEmployers' body rounds on NHS over PFI delays
CBI report claims that procurement process wastes an average of £2.45m per major hospital scheme
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NewsHSE on site for investigation into tragic scaffold collapse
The Health and Safety Executive is continuing its investigation into last week's fatal scaffolding collapse in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Training centre set for royal visit
The Duke of Edinburgh is to make a visit to a flagship construction training centre in Norfolk to demonstrate his support for practical skills training.
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Industry to plead for more advice on energy directive
Sustainability experts to lobby the government for help on energy certification of non-domestic buildings