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NewsKeepmoats profit soars 83%
Keepmoat, a privately owned housing and regeneration group, is expecting sales to hit £300m this year after increasing turnover 55% in 2003/04
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CommentThe Butler test
Adjudicators, like prime ministers, rely on expert evidence to come to decisions. But what if they’re given duff information that reinforces their own bias?
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Rogers tower planned next to Tate Modern
Richard Rogers Partnership is working on a 22-storey residential tower behind the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.
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NewsFuture of Jarvis in doubt despite backing from banks
Auditors give support services group guarded bill of health as it posts loss of £247m for year to 31 March
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Offices set to hit 40C by 2080
Global warming could make naturally ventilated offices virtually unusable for up to one quarter of the year, according to a study by Arup
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Farrell expands role in Manchester regeneration
Architect increases profile by winning 74 ha masterplan for 3000 home pathfinder scheme
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NewsIndustry calls for government cash to tackle safety failings
Construction Confederation boss says HSE needs more inspectors to blitz sites and target cowboy builders
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FeaturesJust the job
Dusty Gedge tells us why he ran away from the circus to join the green roofing industry
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FeaturesCost model: Distribution centres
The distribution centre sector is buzzing at the moment, as businesses rush to outsource their goods-handling to logistics firms, and supermarkets adopt just-in-time delivery systems. Here we look at the key issues in affecting distribution centres – and, more importantly, breaks down how much one would cost
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NewsMaxwell Stewart axes 20 employees
M&E firm Maxwell Stewart has made 20 people redundant and restructured the firm to bring it back into profit.Maxwell Stewart was hit by the collapse of main contractor Sunley Turriff, which was placed in administration last July.Robert Stewart, Maxwell Stewart’s chairman, said the firm had just had its busiest year ...
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NewsBroker’s notes: The Jarvis chainsaw massacre
So summer is with us at last, dear reader. You’ll be relieved to know I’ve managed to wean myself off my workaholism with the help of therapeutic visits to Ascot, Wimbledon, the British Open, the cricket and the polo, and nothing but the very occasional bottle of Bolly to keep ...
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CommentMultiplex on the spot
The FA may have other things on its mind than the construction of Wembley, but news that the stadium is presently hosting a good old-fashioned firefight between sub and main contractors should give anyone left at Soho Square additional cause for concern.
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Czech list
The Czech Republic has updated its laws on public procurement to bring them into line with European rules – but there are one or two things you ought to know
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The Holyrood treatment
Cary Grant could have given a valuable lesson in construction procurement to the “client” for the Scottish parliament building (23 July, page 50) – or the client for any large or complex development, come to that.
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It’s just cement to be
With the introduction of the European Landfill Directive, the UK’s remediation industry must face the fact that it has to find an alternative to a dig-and-dump strategy for contaminated land (16 July, page 14).
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A fair point
I was reading the article “Beauty is but skin deep …” (18 June, pages 26-28) and noticed that you show a photograph of the Saga headquarters in Folkestone, Kent, to illustrate the leaky windows that it has been cursed with. I would just like to point out that the photograph ...
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Dear Tony ...
I think the “answer on a postcard” to Tony Bingham’s question of how to gather evidence of site disruptions at the time they occur (16 July, page 52) is to keep a site diary. A well-kept and detailed diary is invaluable to anyone having to prepare or determine claims for ...
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… or, perhaps, Dear Diary
The answer has to be site diaries maintained by all supervisory staff from trade supervisor upwards. There should be an item in the bill for them, their content specified in the spec and, for programmes using the Society of Construction Law protocol, a withholding of a percentage of the account ...