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News'A few thousand' firms will join quality mark before next election
The government intends to sign up "a few thousand" firms to the quality mark by the next general election, says construction minister Nigel Griffiths.
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Firm fined £100,000 over worker's death
Hertfordshire contractor JDM Accord has been fined a total of £100,000 by Stafford crown court after a worker was killed during road improvement works.
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NewsAnd now … Watchdog
The National Audit Office is to investigate the BBC's White City office project next to BBC television centre in west London, which is being completed by Bovis Lend Lease. The watchdog will look at how the BBC is spending the £2.6bn of licence fee income on external suppliers.The NAO ...
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Jarvis seeks Tube Lines sale
Jarvis revealed last week that it may sell half of its stake in Tube Lines, the firm responsible for upgrading one-third of the London Underground, to reduce debt.
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Franklin + Andrews loses another key player
The head of property at QS and project management firm Franklin + Andrews is to leave the company at the end of next month.
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NewsSexy Salford
Developer Peel Holdings has received planning consent for a five-storey office building and two residential blocks of nine and 20 storeys next to Erie Basin in Salford Quays, Manchester. Designed by Broadway Malyan, the scheme is to include 6000 m2 of office space and 194 apartments with an equal number ...
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CommentA new kind of small talk
Rubber chicken returns with a trip to the property world's raison d'être: MIPIM in Cannes. Here our trusty reporter faced a grilling from Griffiths, a band of blues-playing QSs and …
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FeaturesArup's giant foaming Chinese puzzle box
Beijing's 2008 Olympic swimming stadium looks like a artifact from a dream: a giant box of glowing blue bubbles in which 17,000 people are concealed. Once you recover from the shock of seeing it, you start to wonder how anyone could possibly work out how to build it.
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Spring into action
In this month's Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports on a record-breaking January for contractors and anticipates growth in UK construction to increase over the three months to May
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A game of give and take
Kate Barker’s one-stage planning proposal gets the thumbs-up from housebuilders – but other recommendations get a less warm reception
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Under instruction
Hallamshire had entered into a building contract with the local authority, South Holland District Council. It incorporated the JCT Form of Building Contract 1980 Edition Local Authority's version. They agreed that phase two of the project, in respect of fit-out works, would be dealt with by means of a variation ...
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Basra stories
On the anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, we visited UK firms working in the south of the country and discovered that everyday life for contractors involves death threats, spiralling security costs, kidnapping, shortages of power and water – and a great deal of raw sewage
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FeaturesMiranda's way
No doubt you think Miranda Seymour-Smith's a bit quixotic. After all, she wants to get women onto site by banning wet T-shirt jokes. On the other hand, the Queen asks to come to her dos and Peter Rogers is her biggest fan. Still so sure?
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Cyanamid revisited
You will no doubt be familiar with the high-profile punch-up over the Bath Spa project; what you may not know is that it has interesting legal implications …
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Redrow calls for action on local authority housing bans
Housebuilder argues that moratoriums on new build in northern England are based on false premises
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FeaturesDream over
For five years, the Peabody Trust has been the standard bearer of progressive housing in Britain, producing ideal homes such as the BedZED development pictured. Now that it has been forced to cut staff and move away from development, are prefabrication and sustainability lost causes?
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Housebuilders face shock land tax in Budget
Whitehall hints that Brown may impose levy on increase in land value triggered by planning permission
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CommentA misjudgment
The parties in Tally Wiejl vs Pegram became utterly confused by the problem of which contract was in place. Now this question has foxed the Court of Appeal, too
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Bovis Homes: Inflation to halve
Bovis Homes chief executive Malcolm Harris has warned that house price inflation will more than halve this year