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FeaturesWho's for dinner?
Building's finance pages are suddenly dominated by talk of takeovers. Housebuilders, consultants and contractors all feel the need to expand their bottom line by eating up their rivals. We look at how what is behind this unprecedented period of consolidation
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FeaturesRepeat after me: 'yes, I can run your project'
Take a look at these people … Do you recognise the one who'll best be able to manage your scheme? We investigate
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CommentThe peacemakers
Dispute resolution boards are supposed to head off problems before they escalate into armed conflict. Question is, how do they do the heading off?
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NewsCTRL project team to design St Pancras Thameslink fit-out
Appointment of Channel Tunnel Rail Link consortium clears up confusion over who will pay for station work.
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Architect plans schoolhouses for teachers
Architect Hunter & Partners is implementing a groundbreaking plan to provide accommodation for teachers priced out of the South-east's housing market
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Bovis wins gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy
Italian arm is awarded 29-month contract in joint bid with Turin engineering and construction firm.
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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 …)