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Industry rankings
Welcome to Building’s annual league of the top 100 contractors and housebuilders in the UK. The tables clearly show another great year for construction, with total turnover, pre-tax profit and margins all breaking records.
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NewsHousebuilders face double whammy on social housing
Oxford council raises affordable housing quota to 70% as Housing Corporation issues funding warning.
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City panic hits services firms after Amey profit warning
Shares in support services firms plunge after Amey warns its results will be affected by delays to Tube PPP.
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20 ways to make tall buildings safer
This week, exactly 10 months after the collapse of the World Trade Centre, the Institution of Structural Engineers has published guidance that it hopes will mean a disaster of 11 September proportions will never happen again. Its recommendations on how to help buildings withstand a terrorist attack will affect existing ...
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FeaturesMetal Michelangelo
Bill Tustin is a huge Sid James-soundalike with the mind of an angel and the beard of a gnome who can build and price structures as complex as the London Eye in his head while making clothing out of the bowels of journalists. Marcus Fairs spends a happy afternoon being ...
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Assign! Assign!
If you are the beneficiary of a collateral warranty, be sure it has been properly transferred to you – otherwise you may find yourself unable to make a claim
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Features'You had the contents of two 110-storey buildings in a pile'
When the World Trade Centre towers collapsed on 11 September 2001, the world was devastated – and then demanded to know how it had happened. So Chicago-based skyscraper expert William Baker was sent on a reconnaissance mission to ground zero, to assist in the clear-up operation and report back. Here ...
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Wates tightens up on safety after HSE site prosecution
Contractor promises to introduce changes after inspectors take firm to court over safety lapses at London site.
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Aedas staff doubles after merger
Top 10 architect Aedas AHR has nearly doubled its workforce in the UK after a merger with Birmingham practice TCN.
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Prowtings buy 75% stake in Banner Homes
The Prowting family made a shock return to housebuilding this week when it bought a 75% stake in privately owned Banner Homes.
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Contractor Stenoak goes into receivership
Roads contractor Stenoak was this week placed in receivership, two weeks after its shares were suspended on the alternative investment market.
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M4I to help Labour keep its public service promises
Movement for Innovation plans ‘task groups’ to help government build schools and hospitals before election.
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Prescott backs down on Part E
LObbying by the House Builders’ Federation has led John Prescott’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to relax proposals for noise regulations.
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NewsWates and Gleeson fall out over Knightsbridge station
Refurbishment of London Tube station to be delayed six months as contractors tread on each other's toes.
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London group questions Ken's plan
A GROuP of central London council officers and businesses will tell Greater London Authority officials next week that mayor Ken Livingstone's £100bn vision for the capital is unrealistic.
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Afghanistan to get new embassy – once war is over
Foreign and Commonwealth Office draws up plans for increased British diplomatic presence in Afghanistan.
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Architecture without tears
In that holy trinity of any building project – cost, time and quality – it is quality that causes the longest lasting headaches. Once a building is completed and worries over cost and time have subsided, it is quality, or the lack of it, that the client, facilities manager and ...
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Tropus vindicated in select committee report
a select committee has endorsed many of the findings of former Wembley stadium project manager Tropus.
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NewsThe discovery of Australia
The discovery of Australia: Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has won its first project down under with the redevelopment of a railway station and interchange in Melbourne. The arrivals hall will stretch out beneath an undulating roof, with shops contained in pods suspended over the concourse. It will be developed and ...
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ISE: How skyscraper design must change
The structural design of tall buildings should change in the wake of the World Trade Centre collapse, a report said this week.