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Restructuring costs Mansell almost £1m
Privately-owned contractor Mansell spent almost £1m on restructuring last year.
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Whitehall to subsidise PFI bids and cut shortlists
Plans to speed up projects include refunds for hospital bid costs and more detailed information about housing.
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End housing transfers, says UCATT
Construction union UCATT has called for the government to re-examine housing stock transfers after council tenants in Birmingham voted by a big majority against a proposal to switch to a registered social landlord.
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NewsGovernment backs £235m laser research facility
DTI and Wellcome Trust form joint venture firm to build laboratory for cutting-edge equipment in Oxfordshire.
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Big names to rebid for Elephant & Castle plan
Losing consortiums for the £1.5bn Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme this week expressed interest in rebidding for it after the withdrawal of existing developer Southwark Land Regeneration.
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Labour's philosophical fog
So, health minister John Hutton has suddenly realised what construction knew months ago: it is already too late to deliver his new hospitals before the next election. His offer to subsidise bids, truncate tender lists and hire more Whitehall project managers has, therefore, the hallmarks of political panic (pages 28-29). ...
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QS report backs £326m cost of Wembley
QS Cyril Sweett has approved the £326m price tag for the Wembley stadium redevelopment in a report for the Football Association.
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NewsManchester on the move
Manchester on the move: Work is expected to start in the summer on this Ian Simpson-designed transport hub in Manchester. The £20m Shudehill interchange for the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive will comprise a bus concourse catering for 150 bus departures an hour, a Metrotram stop and an 803-space multistorey ...
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Morgan writes off £8m on Bluestone
Morgan Sindall this week wrote off £8m from the value of contracts at regional contracting business Bluestone.
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London to get jobs database
The government is to enlist employment agency Job Centre Plus in the fight against skills shortages in London.
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EC Harris played role in royal funeral
Top five QS EC Harris was part of the team running the Queen Mother's funeral, held on Tuesday.
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Laing sale fails to dent family's fortune
Sir Martin Laing and family has nearly tripled its wealth in the past 12 months, despite selling Laing Construction to Ray O'Rourke for £1, according to figures published in The Sunday Times.
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NewsFinished symphony
Finished symphony: An £8m conversion of the King Charles building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, south-east London, has been completed for the Trinity College of Music. The scheme, which was project managed by Hornagold & Hills, converted the grade I-listed building into student rehearsal rooms and recording, recital ...
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NewsSuite dreams
Suite dreams: Ireland Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced this week that London-based practice London Bloc Architects had won an open competition organised by the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland to design street furniture for O'Connell Street in Dublin. The suite of furniture structures is repeated along the 550 m street, ...
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Haywards wins £60m housing job
A consortium including multidisciplinary consultant Kennedy Haywards has won the competition to develop a £60m housing scheme in Bermondsey Spa, south-east London.
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Midas sues engineer C&A for negligence
Midas Construction is suing structural engineer C&A Consultants for £400,000 after problems arose at the Truro College development in Cornwall.
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Contracts
Ibex lands TV fit-out jobFit-out contractor Ibex Interiors has bagged a £5m contract to fit out broadcasting studios and offices at Chiswick Park, west London, for Corinthian Television Facilities.EC Harris wins Liverpool dealConsultant EC Harris has been picked as project manager and QS by developer Beetham Organisation for an £18m ...
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CLG to close, but retentions fight goes on
The Constructors' Liaison Group's campaign against retentions will continue, even though the body is to be wound up this summer.
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HTA fights Greenwich ruling
HTA Architects hopes to overturn a legal decision that seriously weakened its ability to sue the developers of the £250m Greenwich Millennium Village project.
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Rowen to invest £4m in Watson Steel
Listed steel contractor Severfield-Rowen is to invest £4m this year in Watson Steel, the former Amec subsidiary it acquired for £2.6m last November.