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NewsBallast 'walks a tightrope' as subcontractors down tools
Nervous staff fear for this month's salary as Dutch parent announces that it is cutting off support for UK business.
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Berkeley sues engineer for £1m over collapsing site
High Court writ accuses Leslie Wilks of failing to inform housebuilder that Hampshire site was unstable.
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Jarvis says farewell to rail maintenance sector
Support services group Jarvis last week announced that it was to pull out of rail maintenance work.
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NFB launches service to find perfect partners
A scheme to provide clients and prime contractors with a list of suitable firms for partnering has been launched by the National Federation of Builders.
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FeaturesBalancing act
In the first of a three-part series on achieving the right work–life balance, Andrew Garbutt of Berkshire Consultancy asks: what do you want to get out of life?
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FeaturesProject review
Designing and building a £5.5m nanoscience research centre for Cambridge University was an ideal opportunity to create a building that was as futuristic as the technology it contained. Here's how Building Design Partnership and Gardiner & Theobald tackled it.
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City looks forward to bright future for Mears
Analysts predict strong performance for building maintenance firm, with pre-tax profit at £6.3m by 2005.
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NewsBrokers notes: When Jarvis bowed out
After three days supping a little too much of the red stuff in the granite surroundings of the Square Mile, it was a relief to have a dry lunch last Thursday with my old chum Colin Busby, the Kier chairman.
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FeaturesFurther and better particulars of … Richard Cuthbert chief executive of MouchelParkman
In the first of a monthly series on headline-hitting companies and leading industry figures, we chart the impressive rise of MouchelParkman's chief executive Richard Cuthbert
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Give it to me straight
It’s all very well designing a building whose curves have been inspired by a hippopotamus’ backside, but just how does it fit in to our rectilinear urban jungle?
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FeaturesLateral perspective
Terry Farrell has launched two London housing schemes: one a 16-storey block of flats, the other a handful of £4m homes. He thinks one could be the answer to the South-east's housing shortage. So which would you put your money on? (PS: That is a trick question …)
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Don't get too cosy
What do Esso, Jimi Hendrix and the construction industry have in common? The answer, of course, lies with double agent George Blake …
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Stay on the ball
This case demonstrates, once again, the importance of tatooing any amendments you make to a standard form on a readily visible part of your body
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Get back here
The prospect of design work being outsourced overseas ("Good morning Vietnam", 5 September, pages 38-41) raises a number of concerns.
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Adapt or die
The correspondence that followed John Smith's column (12 September, page 29) about suicidal pricing to win work is a perfect example of the lack of innovative thinking in our industry.
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Valuable secrets
I read with interest Ann Minogue's article "Secret squirrels" (19 September, page 57) in which the disclosure of a database of customers was included in confidential trade information.