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NewsPersimmon makes 50% dividend increase
Persimmon this week backed up its bullish view of the housing market by increasing its full-year dividend 50%, outstripping City expectations
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Cemex completes RMC takeover for £3bn
Cemex, the Mexican cement producer, this week completed its £3bn takeover of UK concrete company RMC.
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NewsGalliford Try boss aims high in housing and construction
New chief executive Greg Fitzgerald plans to double construction turnover and housing output by 2010
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Wolseley chief calls for modernised industry
Adrian Barden, managing director of Wolseley UK, this week called for the construction industry to modernise and become more innovative and efficient if it was to deliver the volume of houses called for in the Barker report.
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CommentThe race for second place
Waking up to find that the Tories have regained popularity is certainly a strange feeling. Maybe they can fail a bit better this time
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make £35bn of efficiency savings – and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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International costs: 2005
Gardiner & Theobald’s 13th annual survey looks at how much it’ll cost you to build various buildings around the world, along with labour and inflation rates – plus why China is still the main cost driver
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CommentFurtive behaviour
Before you sign a home-cooked contract, ask yourself why your client-to-be felt the need to do it himself, when there are so many standard forms out there
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CommentShock and or
It happens all the time – a contractor thinks the spec means one thing, the client another. In this case it ended in a judge’s interpretation of the word ‘or’
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A victory of sorts
Insurance companies may have failed in an attempt to stop payouts to workers with a lung condition caused by asbestos, but they did manage to limit compensation
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CommentEurocontracts cometh?
The European commission has denied plans for a European civil code. But ‘improving the coherence of legal principles’ sounds rather similar
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The dangers of freedom …
In your news columns on 11 February (page 11), you reiterated Rudi Klein’s views that the Freedom of Information Act enables contractors and subcontractors who lose out on public sector projects to discover the value of rival bids and find out what criteria were used to evaluate them.
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Carry on, Colin
Colin Harding – if it is any consolation, I think your articles are excellent and well justified (Letters, 11 February, page 39).
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Time to organise?
I agree with the recent views of Colin Harding and Chris Charles (Letters, 18 February, page 34) – small firms in the construction industry do need better representation.
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Courage under fire
Tony Bingham’s expert witness–hired gun analogy (4 February, page 50) struck a chord – appearing in the witness box under the interrogation of our learned friends seems to me akin to being under fire!
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No such stipulation
I am writing in response to your article on the Bath Spa, “Money down the drain” (11 February, page 26).
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Silenced partner
I have noticed over the years that when you profile a landmark project in your publication, you rarely make mention of the specialist M&E subcontractors used by a listed main contractor and I have often wondered why.
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Judge, jury and accomplice
Although I am sure that Michael Sergeant has presented a legally correct view of impartiality and agency (21 January, page 58), I think that he has not entirely warned of the dangers facing the design team.