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Bullish Bellway's profit leaps 46% to £57m
Housebuilder Bellway announced a 46% increase in interim profit before tax last week.
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Wimpey: House prices cooling
Wimpey chairman John Robinson said last week that the housing market seemed to be cooling after the sharp rise in prices in the sector last year.
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FeaturesBlazing a trail
Ballal Raza is a down-to-earth Brummie project manager with bags of confidence and plenty of commitment – and the industry needs to recruit thousands more just like him. We met a young Asian professional taking construction's image issues in his stride.
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Crack the code
Designers are increasingly liable for health and safety breaches, and are increasingly finding themselves in the dock as a result. Here's how to stay out of trouble
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CommentThe sound of fiddles
OK, the request may be a bit iffy, not 100% legit, but if I turn a blind eye so as to get the job, surely there's nothing wrong with that? Hey, what's that siren…?
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For a few dollars less
Stuffed by an adjudicator? Dry-gulched and embittered? Looking for justice? Well, help is at hand because fast-track arbitration has just ridden back into town …
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FeaturesUnited nations taskforce
These days, Britain's skills shortage is so severe that our contractors are happy to employ workers from all over the world. But what do they think of working with us? We went to Paternoster Square in the City of London to find out.
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Local lowdown
This week, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the job market in the South-east, where a building boom means contractors are looking for skilled recruits
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Tear down the wall
It was just a throwaway line in Gordon Brown's excruciatingly prolix Budget speech, but its impact on contractors may be immense.
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Our blood, our money
The battle for contracts in Iraq has begun. As we were in the firing line, we ought to get a fair share of the work – before the French find a way back in
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More realpolitik, please
I had to read your article "Don't expect any hand-outs from US, Wilson tells firms" twice, as I thought I must have misread what Brian Wilson had said (4 April, page 13).
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More punishment, please
Melinda Parisotti alarms contractors and consultants unnecessarily in her rticle "Pleasure and punishment" (4 April, page 48).
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David Curry
As economic policy, Prescott's communities plan won't wash – it will only exacerbate the North–South divide
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Office fit-out
Although demand for new-build office space has plummeted in the past two years, one particular office sector is active and competitive. In this model, Davis Langdon & Everest, services cost consultant Mott Green & Wall and property tax specialist NBW Crosher & James examine the falling costs of fit-out
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Model answer
A triple-deck timber drum, meandering internal mall, state-of-the-art IT and an open-to-all crèche, cybercafe and library make Blyth Community College the government's template for future state schools. We took a long, close look.
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Oral promise? It's just talk
This was an appeal to the House of Lords in respect of the applicability of the doctrine of estoppel to guarantees, themselves governed by Section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677. Saint-Gobain had retained the First Defendant (“Inglen”) as the main contractor for the construction of ...
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No more chasing Amey
Beleaguered support services firm – and £190m of debt – is finally bought by Spanish giant Ferrovial for £81m