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Wonders & blunders
Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
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McCarthy turned down chair of Churchill
John McCarthy, co-founder of McCarthy & Stone, declined the chance to chair Churchill Retirement Living, a niche housebuilding firm run by his two sons. McCarthy joined the company as a non-executive director at the start of the month but his son Spencer wanted him to be more involved and offered ...
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FeaturesWhat makes Ray run?
Out of all the hundreds of thousands of labourers in the industry, a few thousand take degrees. Out of them, a few hundred start a business. But only one has turned that business into a global power in his own lifetime: Ray O’Rourke. We spent three years chasing him to ...
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FeaturesTake a break
A recent survey shows that many construction managers think it will help their careers to skip holidays. Andy Pearson reveals why they are very much mistaken
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Conspiracy uncovered
Dominic Helps If you’re in any doubt about what constitutes collusive tendering, the Office of Fair Trading has just published a decision that makes it absolutely clear
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It’s a long, long road
Tony Bingham Those canny Irish have put their £4bn roadbuilding programme on hold until they see what happens to the English experiment with design-and-build
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The pensions black hole
Patrick Kennedy and Caoimhe O’Neill If you sign a contract with a firm that has an underfunded final salary pension scheme, it could drag you into the mire too
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This month Legal Aid
Our experts explain the ins and outs of building insurance, outline the many ways an expert QS can resolve wrangles over costs, and look at who pays when a public sector client clashes with a private utility company over delays
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FeaturesHow did it come to this?
Four dead and Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle airport in ruins. A nation is waiting for answers. But while the French ministry of transport blames a concrete fault, others have been searching elsewhere for an explanation. Thomas Lane spoke to some of the doubters
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FeaturesA rare site
It’s assumed that site workers spend more time wolf-whistling than learning skills. But the UK’s biggest single training effort aims to change all that. In the second of five monthly articles in association with ConstructionSkills, Building looks at how the industry will attempt to qualify 500,000 workers in the next ...
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Cost study: Belgrave house
Developer Grosvenor Estate wanted a sleek office block that could hold its own opposite London’s Victoria Station and attract firms from the West End and the City. Cost consultant EC Harris, architect Squire and Partners and contractor Sir Robert McAlpine explain how the project team achieved all this at 4% ...
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CommentYou animals..
Welcome to Building’s annual league table of the 100 biggest UK contracting and housebuilding giants, ranked by turnover, pre-tax profit, operating margin and more besides.
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FeaturesTop 100 Contractors and Housebuilders 2004
Since 1993, the nature of the construction industry’s big beasts has changed markedly. We report on the effects of 10 years of stabilisation and increasing prosperity
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NewsAlfred McAlpine profits slip by 8%
Chief executive Ian Grice blames difficulties in utilities market for fall in profits
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NewsHSE figures reveal 70 building workers died in 2003/2004
There has been no improvement in the figure for deaths on site according to the latest Health and Safety Executive figures.
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NewsClimate change forces government rethink on flood planning
Planning minister Keith Hill announces review of flood planning policy
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NewsJarvis set to reveal losses tomorrow
Troubled support services group due to post delayed annual figures, which will include a huge loss.
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Manchester: The Remix
The city at the forefront of Britain’s industrial revolution and its post-industrial decline is about to become the standard bearer of its urban regeneration, thanks to £1.5bn in funding and the return of the crack team that tackled the Hulme estate. Victoria Madine reports