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Features
Specialist costs: Structural steel
With steel demand at an all-time high last year, David Cane, associate at Gardiner & Theobald, considers what’s next for the sector – plus David Sands of Bourne Steel gets a grilling
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FeaturesThe top 10 most disastrous building projects in the world EVER
Budgets spiralling to the size of a small country’s GDP. Vast body counts. Overruns that go on for centuries … Yes, in the style of a Channel 4 filler show, and on the back of the nightmare that is the National Physical Laboratory, it’s the worst projects ever
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Troubled Mowlem changes finance directors
Mowlem has issued a second profit warning in as many months, announced that finance director Gerry Brown was leaving the company, and appointed a replacement this week
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Morgan aims to storm forward with land firm
Steve Morgan, former boss of Redrow, aims to quadruple the size of a key division in his latest venture, Harrow Estates, by the end of 2008.
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Cyril Sweetts dream team launch growth strategy
New bosses target growing markets and regions in drive to hit £50m turnover by 2007
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Comment
In praise of propellerheads
The idea of turning the north bank of the Thames into a cultural centre to rival the south is a good idea that probably won’t happen, for these reasons …
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Features
Can paris be beaten?
The bookies, the population of Paris and the Queen of England all think that the French are about to add the 2012 Olympic Games to their sporting triumphs. We met the people behind the bid and found out why they’re so confident …
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Steve Morgan
With Liverpool still ignoring his advances, the former Redrow boss is turning his attention to a new land-purchase venture. We meet a man throwing himself into his work …
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CommentOne project away from disaster
It’s a cruel study in contrasting fortunes. In the same week that BP announced a £9.3bn profit, Mowlem issued another profit warning
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CommentPlugging away
Know a bloke who can sort your electrics? For a good price? Well, only if you don’t include the £5000 fine from your newly empowered building control officer
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Comment
Got yourself the right lawyer?
Six months ago it became possible for a member of the public to instruct a barrister directly, but for most construction disputes this course of action may not suit
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Comment
What are you referring to?
Contracts often incorporate other terms and conditions by reference rather than listing them. This, not surprisingly, can lead to disputes over where to draw the line …
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Mr Harding’s reading lesson
I really do wish that the Construction Confederation would read my columns more carefully before misrepresenting my comments (14 January, page 37).
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Comment
The £60,000 question
John Prescott’s plans for social housing focus too much on the design and not enough on the delivery. Although it is encouraging to see the ODPM challenge housebuilders to achieve a build target of £60,000, the industry cannot afford to ignore how these homes will be delivered.Opinion about whether the ...
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Comment
Beware the CORGI
Your report “HVCA threatens to quit CORGI” (28 January, page 16) accurately reflected the association’s current attitude to the Council for Registered Gas Installers, and the deep concern felt within its ranks at CORGI’s increasing reluctance to consult the industry it exists to serve.
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FeaturesMoney down the drain
This is the story of how it took six years, £40m and many public punch-ups between the council, Mowlem and Grimshaw to build a smallish public leisure amenity in Bath. And it’s still not built. We tell the story, and reports on Mowlem’s plan to put an end to it ...