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A guiding light
The Construction Industry Council has come out with some guidance for adjudicators that should ensure that they now know exactly where they stand
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NewsRogers to draw up new Wembley masterplan
Architect Richard Rogers is to draw up a revised masterplan for the Wembley complex in north-west London.
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PFI profits boost Alfred McAlpine's results
Good returns from PFI investments help contractor to a pre-tax profit of £12m for the six months to 30 June.
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Testing times for testers
It's early days still for the independent testers who certify completion on PFI contracts. But not too early to put their role under the spotlight
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Crown House boss moves up as Carillion restructures
'Fast-tracked' M&E chief Richard Lumby moves to infrastructure services division in management reshuffle.
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News£42m Fort Dunlop gets go-ahead
Developer Urban Splash's heavily delayed £42m Fort Dunlop regeneration scheme in Birmingham has been given the go-ahead.
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NewsTrio to masterplan Corus factory redevelopment
Closed-down Corus plant in Ebbw Vale is to be reconceived as a major mixed-use scheme by January 2003.
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New rules for low-level working
The Health and Safety Executive is introducing regulations to cover work on scaffolding or platforms below 2 m in height.
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Railtrack's £225m consultant bill exposed
Railtrack came under fire this week for spending £225m on consultants and temporary staff last year.
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NewsOverbury is latest to abolish 'archaic' retention system
Fit-out firm will no longer withhold cash but is slashing the number of subcontractors on its books.
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Making the desert boom
Who'd have pinpointed the Gulf as the venue for the next global construction bonanza? With an assault on Iraq looming and the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, there wouldn't appear, on the face of it, to be much of a market for Western-style hotels, malls and casinos. But that is precisely ...
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NewsDown on the prom
Down on the prom: Ian McChesney, an architect at engineer Atelier One, has won Blackpool council's competition to design three swivelling wind shelters on the promenade. McChesney beat 81 other submissions from around the world to win the competition. All the entries are being shown at Blackpool Pleasure Beach's arts ...
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Round table to tackle labour agency concerns
The government is to host a construction round table meeting to examine the use of labour agencies in the industry.
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Lend Lease buys Akeler
Bovis Lend Lease's parent company has expanded its European business with the purchase of UK developer Akeler Holdings.
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NewsOxford castle redevelopment finally gets under way
Work has finally started on a £30m redevelopment of Oxford castle and prison, four years after plans first emerged for the site.
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Galliford and Wiggins form joint venture
Construction group Galliford Try and developer Wiggins have formed a joint-venture company to develop a former hospital site in Letchworth, Bedfordshire.
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Camden asks Carillion to rejoin PFI race
Camden council has approached contractor Carillion to pitch for a £30m PFI housing scheme after claims of insufficient competition for the contract.
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NewsLet the music play
Let the music play: This recently completed Allford Hall Monaghan Morris-designed scheme for developer Lattitude Investment comprises 1000 m2 of speculative office space. Clear Water Yard in Camden, north London, includes a grassed roof and unisex toilets that play songs by legendary smoothie Barry White. Main contractor is Durkan Pudelek, ...
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Contracts
Kier to build DEFRA's HQKier arm Kier Build has won a £29.5m contract to construct a headquarters for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in Whitehall, central London.Allenbuild wins hospital jobsAllenbuild has bagged a £9.6m deal for three health jobs on the Furness and Ulverston General Hospital sites ...
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NewsFive star
Five star: A consortium including Bovis Lend Lease was this week named preferred bidder for the £300m Manchester Children's Hospital PFI. The Catalyst consortium, which includes catering and services provider Sodexho and architect Anshen Dyer, beat a team that included Taylor Woodrow. The central site on Oxford Road will bring ...