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NewsThe next stage
The next stage: Contractor Killby & Gayford has completed this £3m refurbishment of the Embassy Theatre for the Central College of Speech and Drama. The project, in Swiss Cottage, north London, includes a remodelled auditorium for 227 people, a stage and control room and extended rehearsal and workshop areas. The ...
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Contracts
Consortium wins £311m jobA consortium of Costain, O’Rourke Civil Engineering, Bachy Soletanche and Emcor Drake & Scull has won a £311m civil engineering contract from Union Railways (North) for the St Pancras section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Wiggins Gee nabs £1.8m schoolWiggins Gee Construction has secured a £1.8m ...
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NewsPooling resources
Pooling resources: Educational development consortium FocusEducation has been selected as preferred bidder for the £36m public–private partnership contract for the National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy, County Cork. The college is designed to accommodate up to 750 students and is due for completion by the end of 2003. The ...
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Prowting looks for boss
Prowting has started the search for a chief executive and finance director – three months after the previous executives resigned after a profit warning.
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Skanska’s results fail to impress the City
Global construction company Skanska has posted better results for the first three months of 2002, but they have failed to deflect criticism from the City.
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Industry firms among 100 most profitable
The improving fortunes of the construction market over recent years has enabled 15 firms from the sector to make it into The Sunday Times’ Profit Track 100, which ranks the UK’s most profitable privately run firms over the last three years.
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Strength in perversity
These days, a building's quality is defined by whether it works as an advertisement for itself – a fact brought home by one wilful masterpiece that doesn't
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FeaturesStack attack
As city-centre sites get scarcer, developers are getting ideas above their stations, putting offices on the market – literally – and giving a whole new meaning to living on the river. Victoria Madine looks at the rise of the stack development
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FeaturesSound bytes
If TV execs ever want a charismatic consultant to style as an IT doctor, they might call on Microsoft's Mark Dodds. He's studied how major industries have adopted and adapted IT, and he spoke to Marcus Fairs about how construction is faring.
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NewsRogers attacks Brown's 'short-sighted' Budget
Cities must be renewed before NHS or money will be 'partly wasted', says former chairman of urban taskforce.
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NewsSpeculation mounts over future of Prowting
Housebuilder keeps cards close to its chest but failure to appoint executives suggests sale could be imminent.
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FeaturesAnnette Fisher
This time next month, the RIBA could have a black woman as president, which would certainly be a change for an institution – and an industry – still dominated by white men. So, asks Marcus Fairs, who is Annette Fisher?
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The reckoning
Is adjudication living up to our hopes? Hardly, when it has increased disputes, failed to deal satisfactorily with complex cases and become prey to bully-boy tactics
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FeaturesExperimenting with glue
Have you ever thought about attaching bricks with glue rather than mortar but were worried that your brickies might get stuck together, or it would cost twice as much? Well, a project in Bristol is discovering exactly what the advantages and disadvantages are.
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Defence Estates appoints chief executive
Rear Admiral Peter Dunt has taken over from Ian Andrews as chief executive of Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence's property arm and a £1.5bn a year client for the construction industry writes Phil Clark.
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NG Bailey axes 26 jobs in major projects shake-up
Major projects division is restructured after heavy losses on National Physical Laboratory scheme.
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NewsBalfour defends Ilisu Dam role
Balfour Beatty has used its first environmental and social report to defend its involvement in the Ilisu Dam project in Turkey.
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One way to look at it
A firm working for Alfred McAlpine put a whole load of different disputes in one basket and presented it to an adjudicator … What happened next?