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FeaturesThe quiet american
The winner of this year’s Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is Charles Banks, boss of materials firm Wolseley – a man whose calm manner belies his amazing track record and aggressive hunt for acquisitions.
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Head for the hills
This month, Experian Business Strategies predicts that construction growth will continue its slowdown – and explains why it’s better to be working in Yorkshire or the North than London
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NewsPersimmon’s founder and chairman to retire
Duncan Davidson, the founder and chairman of the UK’s biggest housebuilder Persimmon, is to retire next year at the age of 65
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FMB reports weak growth in 2005 workloads
Workload in the building industry is experiencing its slowest growth for six years, according to a Federation of Master Builders survey.
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Kier snatches top spot in March league table
Twenty-seven contracts worth £302m push contractor to pole position, ahead of Carillion and Laing O’Rourke
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CommentKick out the jams
The boss of Lend Lease’s European operations gives Britain’s next government some useful advice on how to keep its election promises
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NewsUrban guru plans US-style regeneration pilot
Prince Charles’ American urban design adviser wants to use an ODPM-backed regeneration initiative to demonstrate how a planning technique established in the US can improve the quality of life in Britain’s cities.
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CommentLet’s go shopping
The ‘Tesco law’ reforms would enable construction consultancies to become one-stop-shops, offering their clients legal advice. But will they do it?
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CommentA tense situation
Can the party defending an adjudication give new answers after proceedings have begun? Well, it seems that depends on the language used in the question …
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An old battleground
The hardy perennial of liquidated damages popped up again in a recent court action, which turned on whether the clause was a penalty, and unenforceable, or not
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CommentContext is everything
Contracts are not simply about the words on the page, as their meanings can be ambiguous and cause incorrect assumptions to be made. These cases prove that …
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Let’s not be hasty
I read the spat in your letters pages between Roger Knowles and Sarah Bourne on women in construction.
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Subbies of the world unite
In response to your question “Are specialists right to get tough?” (15 April, page 15) I am surprised that it has taken them this long.
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Blockheaded thinking
A recent issue published a letter from the president of the Brick and Block Association explaining that bricks and blocks were sustainable products (8 April, page 40).