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NewsWilson Bowden cautious despite 15.6% profit rise
Wilson Bowden posts £260.5m pre-tax profit for 2004 but warns of lower forward orders for first half of 2005.
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Unitied Utilities announces £2.9bn of water works
Three preferred bidders are selected for five-year programme including joint ventures featuring Kier, Galliford Try, Costain and Atkins.
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NewsTaylor Woodrow reports encouraging start to 2005
Housebuilder announces 27% increase in pre-tax profit in 2004 and says 2005 sales are up on previous six months.
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Hunter & Partners secures £14m health facilities contract
Work on east London centre for elderly patients due for completion in July 2006.
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Construction of Millennium Community homes begins
Prescott travels to Allerton Bywater, West Yorkshire, to celebrate the start of the next step of regeneration for former colliery town.
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Multiplex sites threatened with sniper attacks
Australian serious crime squad investigate after Wembley main contractor is targeted in international extortion plot.
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HSE launches nationwide blitz on bad working practices
New inspection campaign starts tomorrow.
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Protestors rally against Spain's construction overflow
Continuing boom in British-owned holiday homes fuels environmentalists anger.
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Persimmon profit rises one-third to 470m
Housebuilder reports record margins in 2004, and looks forward to more of the same in 2005.
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Crest Nicholson lines up £100m regeneration contract
Developer selected for Penarth Heights project in Glamorgan
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Spring in the air as seasonal housing rush begins
The weekend's newspapers report on a flood of properties on the market, a rise in the number of flats being built and a tax inquiry at Wembley.
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FeaturesSweet taste of victory at Junior Open House
Hansel and Gretel style house inspired by Willy Wonka wins school kids' design competition.
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NewsHotel wins £8.9m in claim against John Laing Construction
Judge determines that contractor was legally responsible for delays and cost overruns on refurbishment of London's Great Eatern Hotel.
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Colchester PFI garrison racks up 50m costs in nine years
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act reveal costs of getting troubled scheme off the ground.
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CommentTake us to the pub!
The first of an occasional series of web log-style diaries begins with a typically bizarre Tuesday in the life of a CAD operative in an engineering firm
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Catch ‘em young
Nick Jones on how to recruit teenagers using websites, competitions and speed-dating
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2005
In this special cost model update, Davis Langdon looks at 18 building types – including offices, stadiums, theatres, schools, hospitals, housing and supermarkets – and adds the latest figures and current cost drivers
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FeaturesI am fashion
Jonathan Meades used his first column of the year to bemoan the passing of the “traditional” architect – the flamboyantly bow-tied, floppy-haired chap in deafening tweeds and yellow socks who mostly lived in the 19th holes of golf courses on a diet of gin and tonic, occasionally venturing forth to ...
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NewsBuro Happold elects chairman for new era
Engineering consultancy Buro Happold is set for a new era with the election of Rod MacDonald as chairman