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Emcor Drake & Scull profit rises 41%
Emcor Drake & Scull announced this week that its pre-tax profit rose 41% in the year ending 31 December 2001.
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Chester police escort HBG to top spot in May
Dutch contractor signs deals worth £126m while Sir Robert McAlpine and Bovis dominate yearly table.
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FeaturesWhere there's a mill …
Gateshead's Baltic centre gallery is the offspring of an impoverished but visionary council and an unemployed architect who designed it in his bedroom. So what else is special about it?
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Overseas aid
Far from sponging off the welfare state, immigrant labour – perhaps even when it is illegal – is helping to keep the British economy in robust health
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The cricket test
It probably isn't a coincidence that England's cricketers started performing after they were given guaranteed places. And therein lies a moral for construction …
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FeaturesHanging out with the boys
Erica Lay, project manager at BAA, draws on her on-site experiences to offer some advice to girls in the industry
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Having a bawl
If a construction contract was signed before the construction act came into force, but varied after, can a party to it be dragged screaming into an adjudication?
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Just cool it
A draft delay protocol is supposed to take the heat out of the contentious area of delay. But as it stands, it could simply makes things worse
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Same old precedent
In the old adversarial world, sneaky contractual devices were part of the territory. But such things are soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history – aren't they?
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Just the job
Turner & Townsend quantity surveyor Tanya Jeffrey on how the latest leg of a globe-trotting career has taken her to a silicon chip plant in tropical Borneo
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsHochtief has announced the appointment of Stephen Ives as managing director of Hochtief (UK) Construction. He takes over from Leslie Forrest.Gleeson's rail subsidiary, Gleeson MCL, has promoted Danny Duggan to deputy managing director. He joined the company in 1984 as a site agent.HousebuildersEdward Ware Homes has created an in-house architecture ...
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Women in construction
Girlzone - A visit to the small construction college in Kent that is demolishing the industry’s macho image
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Use unemployed before immigrants, Whitehall told
Industry blocks seasonal migrant worker scheme and presses for more government funding to train over-25s.
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Public spending to fuel three-year output boom
Construction sector to outperform UK economy as state expenditure on public services gets under way.
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An expensive encore
Tony Bingham tells the story of the pianist whose basement dampproof system failed, the court case that ensued, and the intriguing role eggs and dimples played in it
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Emcor Drake & Scull to bid for Citex's Hong Kong arm
Facilities manager aims to increase Hong Kong presence as Citex sheds troubled subsidiary Citex Asia.
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NewsHBG aims for 50% margin hike
HBG's UK arm has given itself three years to increase its margins by half.
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Fairness and force
Last month, Dominic Helps suggested that there was a judicial backlash against adjudication and cited five cases as evidence. None bears examination