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  • News

    Multiplex reshuffles management team

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Multiplex has reshuffled its management team in an attempt to silence critics who called for more transparency in the wake of the £48m loss on Wembley stadium.

  • News

    Amec lands £245m contract for two nuclear reactors

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Support services group Amec has expanded its nuclear business by winning a £245m contract in Canada.

  • News

    Bovis chooses Scottish head

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Bovis Lend Lease has promoted Gordon Anderson to head its Scottish business.

  • News

    Sharewatch: In the doldrums

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Construction shares this week

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    Bovis Lend Lease grabs September top spot

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Contractor’s £510m of work last month pushes it up to second in annual league, above Laing O’Rourke

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    News

    Data New-build completions in September

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Completions and private registrations have held up well over the past 12 months and daily sales are ahead

  • Barker: "A tariff would be unacceptable"
    News

    RICS slams ODPM’s 20% planning gain tax

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers hope their proposed planning gain supplement, which has been given a roasting by a RICS report, will capture about one-fifth of the uplift in value generated by development.

  • News

    Strike threat over pensions

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Seventy thousand construction workers employed by councils could strike if talks with the government fail to resolve a row over pensions.

  • News

    JCT digital contracts to cut legal costs

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Lawyers have predicted that the JCT’s digital contracts, due to launch at the end of next month, will cut construction firms’ legal costs.

  • Short distance learning
    News

    Short-distance learning

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    This special needs primary school in Islington, designed by architect SMC Corstorphine & Wright, is part of a mixed-use development.

  • Exchange square
    News

    Fair Exchange

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Architect Chapman Taylor’s redevelopment work on the Manchester Arndale Centre was revealed yesterday.

  • News

    Bovis to build London’s largest student halls

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Contractor teams up with Blackstone and First Base to convert two 14-storey towers in King’s Cross

  • One of two internal courtyards at Discovery Place office development, Farnborough, designed by Whitelaw+ Turkington and with Goddards as landscape contractor and Wates Construction as the main contractor
    Features

    Specialist costs: Landscaping

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    In our latest specialist market overview, Gardiner & Theobald’s Joe Burns examines the current UK landscaping sector, including current hot topics and typical costs – plus an expert offers his view of the scene …

  • Ken Cowdery
    News

    Reform the Regs

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Today, Building launches a campaign to persuade the government to rethink the way it does regulation. Over the next few weeks we explain what has gone wrong, how it is hampering the industry and how we believe it can be fixed. We hope that you’ll tell us your stories, and ...

  • Comment

    Foreword

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The contribution of the construction industry is enormous in creating a built environment that is a platform for our economic success and our personal and collective wellbeing.

  • News

    QS fee rates fall behind architects and engineers

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Survey shows QS fees rose just 6% over five years, but hourly rates for project managers are increasing

  • News

    Three vie for £700m Hammerson work

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Developer Hammerson has drawn up a shortlist of three contractors for three of its largest developments in London, Leicester and Bristol.

  • News

    Victory by stealth

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    This witty modern makeover of an unprepossessing 1950s house in suburban London has won one of seven RIBA special awards that accompany the supreme Stirling Prize awarded to the Scottish parliament building.

  • Ratynski: French biding their time
    News

    Vinci sizes up Mowlem as takeover rumours swirl

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    UK board of French giant said to be pushing to buy ailing contractor; other large firms also interested

  • News

    Road to Wembley will not be ready for cup final

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The redevelopment of the key access road to Wembley stadium will not be completed by the time the facility opens for next year’s FA Cup final in May.