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FeaturesKeith Clarke
We meet the man with one of the truly epic jobs in British construction: taking over Britain's biggest consultant, redefining its strategy and making it work. Here he talks to us about how he plans to tackle this mammoth task – with detours around plastic lunchboxes and leather underpants.
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FeaturesFast track
Why the Bahrain F1 project team could teach Michael Schumacher a thing or two about acceleration
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Measure for measure
Insurers are providing shrinking cover on terrorism and asbestos risks. Now consultants have new standard contract terms that shrink their liabilities to match
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NewsDLE to drop 'Everest' as it scales new heights
Top consultant to rebrand as part of switch to limited liability partnership status on 1 May
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Pinned and needled
A client's attempts to wriggle out of adjudication on three tricky points of law were quashed by one very clever adjudicator – and he wasn't even a lawyer
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FeaturesGordon's spring surprise
Mr Brown's Budget statement included a reference to the creation of CIPER, a forum where top dogs from the construction industry and the government can talk turkey. But wasn't that why the strategic forum was created?
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FeaturesSourcing timber in Uganda: King of the jungle
Why an intrepid Oxford QS had to trek into the Ugandan jungle to find a solution for the High Commission building in Kampala – and make sure the locals weren't up to any tricks. We report on an African adventure
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NewsRay O'Rourke eyes up Chinese cladding firm
Move comes just days after Laing O'Rourke makes offer for Carillion's M&E arm Crown House Engineering
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Enterprise hits warp factor two
Fast-growing building maintenance firm Enterprise has doubled the amount of money it can borrow from its banks to £100m. It intends to use the funds to fuel further expansion
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Kier strikes £70m health and school deals
Contractor Kier last week reached financial close on two PFI projects, together worth £70m, before its interim results on Monday.
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More poor SAPS
You may remember the case of the boilers that weren't of satisfactory quality despite being in perfect working order. Well, the argument's heating up…
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UK directors' buyout rescues HLM from receivers
British architect is bought back as it goes into administrative receivership, two years after it was sold to US firm
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NewsPolice investigate alleged CSCS card scam
Detectives have begun a fraud investigation into an unnamed employment agency after a Building columnist alleged that it was illicitly supplying CSCS
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NewsHalliburton set to invade UK healthcare market
Department of Health tries to persuade US engineering giant to bid for large PFI hospital projects
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Halcrow to pay Iraqis top dollar at its new Basra office
Engineer offers skilled Iraqi workers 40 times the going rate as it prepares to pull western staff out of Iraq
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Sheppard Robson to design £50m Welsh film studio
Architect to work on centrepiece for 130 ha 'Valleywood' development in Llanilid, South Wales
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NewsRogers hits out at Brown forum
The government's proposed construction forum, has come under fire after it emerged that senior industry figures had not been consulted on its formation