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Saint-Gobain buys BPB for £3.9bn
Success for French takeover bid after five months of wrangling
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Babcock DynCorp wins £500m MoD contract
Joint venture awarded second RPC for east of England region.
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Barratt unshaken by challenging market
Housebuilder keeps emphasis of brownfield regeneration and social housing.
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NewsKent Thameside Delivery Board appoints chief executive
Michael Ward, who set up the London Development Agency, joins north Kent delivery body.
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NewsConsort Healthcare selected for £190m Manchester hospital
Balfour Beatty's healthcare arm is named preferred bidder for the Northern Batched Hospitals project.
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NewsTraditional farm buildings on the wane
English Heritage says that traditional farm buildings in England are in danger of disappearing.
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Features
Costs: Solar hot water systems
Will the new Part L see mass uptake of solar hot water systems? Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans looks at the specifications and their whole life costs
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FeaturesSustainability
This week Specifier looks at all things sustainable, including the cost of solar hot water systems and some great green products. We kick off with Freiburg’s eco-community, including the new Sonnenschiff development that could teach the UK housebuilding sector a thing or two …
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Taylor Woodrow to develop Hampshire hospital
Taywood appointed by English Partnerships as preferred developer for part of the former Park Prewett hospital site in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
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NewsLondon house prices on the rise
RICS survey reports highest level of housebuyer enquiries for two years as prices in South stabilise.
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Modern Housing Solutions wins £690m MOD contract
Joint venture between Carillion, Atkins and Enterprise lands £690m Ministry of Defence contract for work on services accommodation.
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Defence and rail boost Babcock profit by 17%
Babcock International increases order book to £2bn and says that full year profits will be ahead of expectations.
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Bilfinger Berger BOT snaps up UK talent
Two senior development managers join the German PFI specialist as it focuses on UK.
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NewsPersimmon revealed as Westbury bidder
Institutional stockbroker Panmure Gordon says it is likely that housebuilder Persimmon will acquire its smaller rival.
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NewsSaint-Gobain set to raise bid for BPB
The Sunday Times reports that the French materials group is prepared to increase bid for plasterboard company by 5%. Plus all the other news from the weekend papers.
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Amec wins £108m contract at South Wales power station
Amec, in partnership with technology provider ALSTOM, will fit technology to reduce sulphur emissions from the power station, situated near Barry.
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FMB expels loft conversion firm
Federation of Mater Builders expels Surrey-based Fernside Loft Conversion Specialists for bringing the organisation into disrepute.
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NewsKajima to wind down UK construction business
Japanese contractor plans to turn to PFI investment after reporting £80m losses on PFI schools contracts.