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Roofer blew whistle on cartel after blackmail threat
Roofing firm Briggs exposed the illicit cartel it was involved in to OFT after being blackmailed over its activities.
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Comment
Is that decision final?
Scrabster entered into a contract with Mowlem in respect of the construction of a new breakwater quay and associated works as part of a new ferry terminal. The contract was subject to the ICE Conditions of Contract, fifth edition.Certain disputes arose and an adjudication was commenced. The adjudicator’s decision went ...
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Free to adjudicate
This was an appeal from the decision of HHJ Havery of 25 June 2004 in which he determined four issues relating to the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. The judge found that an oral instruction was evidenced in writing by the minutes of a meeting dated 15 September and ...
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RIBA lobbies hard for top-up tuition fee exemptions
Architectural body fears that charges for five-year degree will freeze out all but the affluent from the profession.
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FeaturesThe China trip
China is in the process of building the biggest economy in the world at a pace that is hard to bend your head around – this is a country where planning approval can take a few hours and a town containing 11 universities can be built in a couple of ...
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FeaturesBao Guangjian: man of steel
Bao Guangjian is China’s most innovative steel specialist and the driving force behind Beijing’s impossible-to-build television centre – and even he is a little concerned about whether it’ll stay up … we went to meet him in Shenzhen
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Local lowdown: Scottish Highlands
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the Scottish Highlands
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Just about holding up
Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers
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NewsWillmott sees PFI entry as ‘main challenge’ for future
With profit passing £10m, the Willmott Dixon boss is confident he will avoid the losses incurred at other big names
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CommentAn admission
The answer to the future energy needs of the UK is to be found in the power plants of Woking. Or should that be the wind farms of Denmark? Hang on …
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NewsNew man at the ministry walks into row over PPG3
Argument over planning gain will be high on the agenda for David Miliband, Prescott’s lieutenant at the ODPM
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ODPM doesn’t rule out ‘Solent Gateway’
The ODPM has denied reports that it is set to authorise a 140,000-home housing growth area between Southampton and Portsmouth.
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Tory gains reflect discontent
The government’s plans for building up to 1.1m homes in the South-east by 2016 could be undermined by Conservative election victories in the four housing growth areas.
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FeaturesDaniel Libeskind
As rumours circulate of year-long delays and complete redesigns at Ground Zero, we talk to the man responsible about why his long, bitter struggle with rival architects, the New York press and the site owner (among others) is a sign that things are going pretty well …
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2711 blocks, 6 million deaths
Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust
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