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News‘Very, very good’ engineer is bought out of receivership
Foremans buys UK arm of rival consulting engineer Roberts and Partners after management buyout fails
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NewsAcquisition gives Rok 50m Scottish presence
Construction group Rok has a £50m presence in Scotland after buying the construction arm of Glasgow-based John Dickie Group for £750,000.
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Birse to halve building division
Contractor Birse is set to reduce its building division to a turnover of £30m after revealing the operation cost them £30m in the past five years
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NewsLinden: No consolidation this year
Philip Davies, chief executive of Linden Homes, has predicted that there will be no big mergers in the sector this year because of the low rating of housebuilders on the stock exchange.
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Pair reach peak of profession at Apex
Kent-based Apex Contractors has promoted Ian Cannings to managing director and has appointed Richard Lane non-executive director.Cannings joined Apex as a director in July 2003 from Wates, where he headed up its £90m turnover fit-out arm, and plans to set up a dedicated interiors business at Apex. He said: “Apex ...
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NewsNew boss at WYG keen to broaden firm’s horizon
John Purvis, chief executive of White Young Green, explains why the £120m-turnover firm is looking to Europe
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Bleeding edge design
The construction industry is in a state of permanent revolution, which puts a lot of pressure on those of us who have to build things
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NewsGoodbye Suburbia Hello Urban Cool
Tony Pidgley, the man who sidestepped the 1980s crash, has ditched the luxury home for city apartments – and, as Josephine Smit reports, others are bound to follow
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David Curry
Second-home owners are have long been blamed for aggravating the decline of rural communities. In response, councils are beginning to develop ‘locals first’ policies
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FeaturesJack Pringle
Reforming the PFI and tackling the brain-drain of newly qualified architects are the top priorities of the incoming RIBA president. We find out how Jack Pringle plans to navigate the choppy waters of the architecture business.
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FeaturesNormans Invasion
With the paint barely dry on the viaduct at Millau, Foster and Partners is set to add another iconic building to the southern French landscape
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A Tricky Operation
It was supposed to go out to the PFI market this summer, but a further delay has hit the £800m “health campus” planned for Paddington. Fours years after it was first proposed, what hopes are there for one of the UK’s biggest PFI deals to get off the ground?
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Fast forward
Way back in 1994, Building asked Sir Michael Latham to explain his controversial Rethinking the Team report. Ten years after its publication, we can see that it marked a watershed in the industry’s culture … but how does its author feel about it?
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A lovely bit of judging
What is a judge to do when an adjudicator has clearly made a mistake but there are no grounds to rectify it? Judge Thornton took an unusual route to get the right result
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CommentMurphy’s law in action
What do you do if you find that life on site cruelly punctures the naive hopes in your tender? Well, you try to get the client to pay more, don’t you? Yes, but how?
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The shadow of Hatfield
Faced with the prospect of a tough new corporate killing bill in the autumn, Norton Rose has done some research into how the construction industry expects to be affected
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Lucky mistakes
If your client happens to benefit from your negligence, can you offset that benefit from any damages you owe? This is what the court had to say
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No beautiful swan
The government should accept that the Quality Mark is a dead duck and let it sink without trace (2 July, page 15). This may well have been a manifesto commitment, but it will be a manifesto embarrassment at the election if taxpayers’ money continues to be squandered.The original intention was ...