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Miller posts healthy figures but margins are ‘too thin’
Scottish firm posts pre-tax profit of £52.5m, a rise of 31%, with housing division performing best
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Rok aims to hire 300-400 more staff this year
Rok Property Solutions plans to take on an extra 300-400 staff this year as part of its expansion plans.
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CommentIn for the duration
We rejoice in the fact that, after 35 years of telling companies to build sustainably, it is finally becoming trendy (and legally necessary) for them to do so
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News£60,000 homes contest open to all building methods
Low construction costs more important than how houses are built, says English Partnerships director
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An Englishman’s detached home is his castle, says CABE
Most English people want to live in a detached house, according to a CABE report that warns that increasing housing densities risks repeating the mistakes of the 1960s.
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NewsPrescott calls in Berkeley’s flagship project
Deputy prime minister John Prescott and London mayor Ken Livingstone have clashed over a masterplan for a Thames Gateway regeneration site
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Data New-build completions in February
Completions abound in London and the South-east but are harder to find in Wales and Merseyside
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Regeneration does pay
Proving what those in the sector have known for years, English Partnerships last week launched an index that shows regenerating can make big returns, says strategy director Trevor Beattie
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FeaturesThe Chalmers & Lyons show
Sir Michael Lyons and Lesley Chalmers are in charge of one of the best-kept secrets in regeneration – a public–private venture set up to transform the grimmest areas in England. They are also a great comedy double act.
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CommentImperfectly formed
The Law Commission plans to offer more protection to small businesses. Fine in principle – unless it allows small firms to exploit large loopholes
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The best answer to Blyth
A new design-and-build agreement aims to simplify contractors’ rights of redress over design flaws that predate novation
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CommentConsumer power
Adjudication gets a good press from the industry, so it comes as a surprise when a judge rules that it is unfair when used for disputes with consumers
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Living it up in Leeds
Martin Spring’s article (21 January, pages 22-23) celebrated the erection of a student hall of residence that was a “chequerboard rebuke to drab suburban Leeds”.
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The class struggle continues
Dominic Helps’ thoughtful article on the different rules for payment between builder and consultant designer stopped short of discussing why there should be differences for services whose intentions are broadly similar (“Pay slip”, 11 February, page 63).
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Find yourself a bench
How long do contractors really believe they can sustain a no benchmarking, no measurement approach? With the threat of PFI-related sector-specific benchmarking, growing international competition and increasingly educated clients, the clear message is measure up or lose out.
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CM is wounded, not dead
So construction management is found to be responsible for another major disaster to add to the severe criticism the procurement route received at Holyrood (11 March, pages 42-46). The Great Eastern Hotel case must be the final nail in the coffin?