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FeaturesB-Trac Services: A business success story
Paul Banner is managing director of B-Trac Services, a small maintenance company in the West Midlands working for housing associations. He explains how his firm achieved Investor in People status
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FeaturesIT workshops: How builders are updating their skills
Robin Hood-Leeder explains how the Federation of Master Builders is trying to help its members improve their performance by setting up IT workshops
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House prices fall for third month in a row
House prices have fallen for the third month running after the market failed to make its usual early autumn recovery
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Wolseley upbeat over future as sales top record £10bn
Wolseley, the world’s biggest builders’ merchant, has reported record annual results for the eighth consecutive year, with sales of more than £10bn.
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NewsSharewatch: Countryside blues
Just when we thought we’d had all the bad news from Countryside Properties, last Thursday the company issued its second profit warning in five months
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NewsBucknall’s resurrection of QS dynasty pays dividends
Former chairman restores name and fortunes of Bucknall Austin – and plans move into higher-value work
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CommentWhy Will has no Grace
If the axing of my Fourth Grace has taught me anything, it’s that politicians may demand iconic architecture but they actually want safe designs with no financial risk attached
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FeaturesHolyrood reaction
The Fraser Report may have passed down its judgment on the Scottish parliament building, but the mud is still flying. Here, Building’s readers join the fray and Rob Smith, senior partner at Davis Langdon, defends his firm’s decisions as cost consultant on the project
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Are parliaments inherently unmanageable?
Solicitor Matthew Bell argues that Holyrood was always going to be a problem – but at least it is in good company …
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster’s Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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CommentHarsh reality
Rudi Klein goes in search of the ideal integrated supply chain – and instead stumbles upon another subcontract that perpetuates inequality, unfairness and risk-dumping
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CommentUncool customer
So MSPs are peeved they had to pay £431m for their parliament. But if the contractors delivered what the client said it wanted, why accept less than the true cost?
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Cover your back
Under the German civil code, contractors and clients can protect themselves against risk in several ways, but each one must be approached with caution
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CommentAgreement on principles
The first rule in law school is that an agreement to agree is not a contract. The second rule in law school should be that all rules have their exceptions
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FeaturesPFI in limbo
Ten years after it burst on the scene, PFI has become bogged down in project delays. As research published this week reveals yet more missed PFI targets, We report on how contractors are upping sticks and taking their expertise abroad
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2004: Monsters, Inc
This year’s consultants league table ranks the 200 biggest, scariest practices in the UK – and then breaks them down into bite-sized top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors charts. So who are the Godzillas and the Godzukis of the industry this year? We report from under his desk, Tables compiled ...
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CommentAn ouzo to the Olympics
Perhaps we should have consulted the Oracle at Delphi before the Athens Olympics, because the project managers turned out to be inaccurate soothsayers
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Mexican cement firm set to buy RMC for £2.3bn
Board of UK concrete maker accepts record offer from Cemex, the world’s third largest cement producer
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WYG profit leaps 20% after shopping spree
Support services group White Young Green was hot on the acquisition trail in the second half of the year to 30 June 2004 – and drove pre-tax profit up 20% to £6.9m in the process.