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NewsRock accuses Countryside of blocking its bid
Investment vehicle Rock Pacific has accused housebuilder Countryside Properties of preventing it from making a bid by failing to provide key financial information
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Bovis Homes predicts healthy pre-tax profit
Housebuilder Bovis Homes Group said this week that it remained on course to make a record pre-tax profit in line with market expectations.
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Housing groups plan merger
Midlands social housing groups Keynote and Prime Focus are in talks about merging to create a single group with assets valued at almost £1bn.
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Arup reports 29% rise in pre-tax profit to £10.2m
Consulting engineer Arup has reported a pre-tax profit increase of 29% for the tax year ended 31 March 2004.
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NewsZaha comes home
London is to get its first Zaha Hadid building after her firm beat Foreign Office Architects and Dutch practice MVRDV in the competition to design a home for the Architecture Centre.
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NewsKey NHS client voices doubts over ‘rigid’ PFI
The £422m, 35-year University College London Hospital contract will have to be renegotiated within 10 years, according the project’s client. The admission puts a question mark over the use of the PFI in health projects in its present form
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CPA: Government policy to blame for rising housing costs
The Construction Products Association has dismissed deputy prime minister John Prescott’s claim that the industry is to blame for the high costs of building homes.
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NewsPaddington hospital deal faces 58% premium on site
Troubled £800m Paddington Health Campus could be forced to pay over the odds for crucial site
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NewsUK in talks with Indonesia over tsunami reconstruction
Leading industry figures to meet president of devastated country as rebuilding process gets under way
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The whiff of bias
A&S Enterprises Ltd, the claimant, sought to enforce the judgment of an adjudicator against Kema Holdings Ltd. The defendant was ordered to pay £89,475.86. The claimant was a building contractor carrying out work in respect of a development in Alfreton, Derbyshire. The contract was a JCT 1998 Edition with ...
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News‘I have no idea what to expect’
Arup civil engineer Anthony Peter, 26, was among the first British specialists to be sent to Sri Lanka to help with the reconstruction. Here, in the first part of a diary for Building, he recounts his initial experiences
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NewsPrescott’s £60,000 house to become team effort
English Partnerships and Housing Corporation join up to test deputy prime minister’s call for affordable homes
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NewsUK’s tallest sculpture unveiled in Manchester
Britain’s tallest and most structurally daring sculpture was unveiled this week in Manchester.
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Sustainability is keynote in plan for higher education
The body responsible for making grants to universities and colleges has called on the higher education sector to take a lead in encouraging sustainable development.
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NewsCostain buoyed by growth in water sector
Group says 2004 profit expectations are on track and announces £1bn order book.
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Bath Spa leaks another £4m
Costs rise by £4m in November as Council says new boreholes will are required to safeguard water supply.
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NewsBalfour Beatty toasts healthy 2005
Contractor says 2004 profits were on track despite losses in US and Balfour Beatty Rail.
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NewsZaha Hadid wins London design competition
The superstar architect wins competition to design a centre for architcture near the Tate Modern.
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NewsCambridge architecture department saved
University decides to keep achitecture department open and refocus research on sustainable design.
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Serco lands £400m MOD contract
Contract involves design and build of academic centre of excellence in Shrivenham, Wiltshire.