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NewsCowlin Group hit 100m sales
Private building contractor sees turnover and profit increase as it wins more public sector contracts.
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AMEC buys Game Nucleaire SAS for 14.3 million
Acquisition opens the door to nuclear plant and recycling work across France.
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NewsCharles Dickens returns to Kent
£60m visitor attraction will feature Dickensian cobbled streets and an annual Winter wonderland.
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Selective approach boosts Henry Boot profits
Construction and property firm profit edges up to £15.9m despite a fall in turnover caused by more selective bidding.
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Balfours Gammon wins 33m Hong Kong road contract
Road win follows £175m hotel contract awarded to Gammon last week.
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NewsDocklands student flats win planning approval
The London Borough of Newham approves Fraser Brown MacKenna's designs for £33m University of East London student complex.
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Galliford Try secures 25m care home contracts
Contractor reaches financial close on four residential care home scheme in the London Borough of Ealing.
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NewsBovis wins contract for first Spanish PFI hospital
Bovis Lend Lease is keen to enter the Spanish healthcare PFI sector after securing biggest hospital in Madrid health plan.
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Laing reaches financial close on two PFIs
Accomodation arm Equion will build seven schools in Swindon and provide Cleveland with new police stations.
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NewsCostain consortia wins 750m Southern Water contract
AMP4 contract guarantees work for five years and could be extended to ten.
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News10 Downing Street to host regeneration summit
Senior officials to discuss post-election policy with industry bosses, as government races to sign off pre-election PFIs.
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Comment
One adjudicator after another
The claimant, EDS, was a principal subcontractor carrying out the design and installation of electrical services at the Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington. Costain Skanska Joint Venture was the contractor. The contract was the DOM/2 1981 edition including some amendments. EDS sought to enforce the decision of an adjudicator ...
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Conflicts in the contract
The claimant brought a claim for damages as widow and executrix of the estate of her husband who was fatally injured in an accident. She had sued Drake International Ltd (her husband’s employer’s) and Southampton Container Terminals (who conducted operations at the site that the fatality occurred).The trial judge found ...
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NewsGovernment must refund PFI bid costs, says RICS
Study says financial risks are putting firms off PFI, as RICS pre-election manifesto calls for standard cost reports.
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HSC publishes CDM regulations draft
Industry has a four months to comment on Construction Design and Management Regulations, which are expected to be introduced from early 2006.
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NewsFacelift launches revolutionary new sea platform
All at sea as new product from Facelift floats wind farm’s boat.
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Insurers pressure firms to come clean on CSCS figures
Contractors may have to disclose proportion of staff with skills cards or face higher insurance premiums.
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Features
Costs: Doorsets and site assembled doors
What are the cost benefits of factory-finished doorsets compared with doors assembled on site? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group looks at the whole-life values