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NewsBovis Homes promote two as Brazier stands down
Boardroom shuffule at Bovis sees departure of group operations director Stephen Brazier.
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NewsLiverpool Football Club poised to join the big league
Koppites could be in 60,000-seat stadium by 2008 as council gives new Anfield go-ahead.
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Third time unlucky
This is a successful appeal by the respondent, Kingston Upon Hull City Council, from the decision of the Court of Appeal reported in Legal Briefing No.8 of 2004. The applicant had worked for the respondent local authority as an environmental health officer and had been driven from his job by ...
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NewsJarvis announces 246m loss after "difficult year"
Troubled contractor will focus on road and rail renewal and steer clear of construction contracts in future.
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NewsYeang in surprise return to Elephant & Castle
Developer St Modwen in negotiations over two 40-storey skyscrapers for deprived south London borough
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Features
Light and flexible
Three architects have made the shortlist in David Wilson Homes’ competition to update the Regency townhouse. So what did they have that the others didn’t?
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Paddington campus to be on three sites
The £800m PFI hospital campus planned for Paddington, west London, is likely to be based on three sites, it emerged this week
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Sacked Multiplex manager claims ethnic discrimination
A sacked Multiplex manager on the Wembley stadium project is taking the firm to an employment tribunal alleging unfair dismissal on the grounds of ethnic discrimination.John Cousins, who worked as an quality assurance manager on the Wembley site for the Australian contractor, was sacked in March. He has since taken ...
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NHS Estates to be abolished
The government watchdog on hospital procurement and design, NHS Estates, is to be abolished.The decision, which raises questions over the future of programmes such as the £2.1bn Procure 21 and NHS LIFT, came after the Department of Health published proposals to cut £500m from NHS spending by 2007.It is ...
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Cannon's aim
Cannon Street StationDeveloper Hines has submitted plans for this Foggo Associates redevelopment of Cannon Street Station in central London. It is to replace a 1960s office block, designed by John Poulson, and will contain eight storeys of glass-covered, column-free office space. The project will be completed by 2010.
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FeaturesThe clan McCarthy at work and play
John McCarthy helped to create arguably the most successful housebuilder in Britain, then left after a failed buyout and a row. Now sons Clinton and Spencer are hoping to repeat the trick – with a little assistance from dad, of course.
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Crisis in Croydon
12-acre site in Croydon, Surrey.Arrowcroft is locked in a dispute with rival Stanhope over who will develop this 12-acre site in Croyden, Surrey. The council supports Arrowcroft’s £400m Michael Aukett-designed scheme (pictured), which has a 12,500-seat arena – but Stanhope owns most of the land. John Prescott this week refused ...
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Sir Robert McAlpine loses £24m on PFI hospital
Contractor announces ‘exceptionally poor’ year as West Midlands scheme leads to overall loss of £19.9m
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O’Rourke slams ‘top-heavy’ Laing regime
Ray O’Rourke has criticised the former leadership at Laing, the family contractor he bought for £1 in 2001, saying it had been top-heavy with management. O’Rourke said that the merged company Laing O’Rourke had gone back to basics. He said: “Laing started by building houses in Scotland. It didn’t start ...
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Last-ditch talks over V&A spiral
The fate of architect Daniel Libeskind’s £70m spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington, London, will be decided at a meeting of museum trustees in September
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Ratcliffe calls for more HSE inspectors
The Construction Confederation has backed a Department for Work and Pensions select committee report that calls for more health and safety inspectors in the industry.The confederation told the committee that the Health and Safety Executive was too stretched to do more than react to events.The National Audit Office found that ...
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Sunrise
Centre de SolarJohn McAslan + Partners has been selected to design and build the 140,000 m2 Centre de Solar development in Beijing, its second major commission in the Chinese capital. The project, on a ring road in the north-east of the city, is a mixed-use scheme planned for completion in ...
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Contractors in secret talks over Oxford animal lab
University determined to press on with the project despite campaign by activists and withdrawal by Montpellier