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HSE to lose extra inspectors
The Health and Safety Executive will not renew the contracts of the 24 temporary construction safety inspectors it recruited last year when their employment ends next June
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A week in the death of Rok
8/11Rok put into administration. Its construction staff shut down sites. Mears, Leadbitter and Kinetics are among firms that express an interest in acquiring it. Rok鈥檚 administrator pledges to pay staff.9/11First customers express anxiety about Rok work, with Tesco Underwriting saying it was already passing any new claims work to other ...
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NewsCreditors demand probe into DEGW directors
Questions over whether DEGW kept creditors informed over worsening financial position
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NewsSpecialists: rebate demands 鈥榗ontagious鈥�
The head of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group has described the practice of large facilities management firms demanding discounts and rebates from their subcontractors as a 鈥渃ontagious disease鈥�, as suppliers warn they will have to pass cost cuts down their supply chains, writes Daniel Thomas.
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NewscityWATCH: Caution
The City has been understanding of the many companies that had a look - and then recoiled - at failed contractor Rok last week. Even Mears, which was the first off the mark to salivate over Rok鈥檚 remains, but then perhaps wisely decided it didn鈥檛 fancy the prospect, managed to ...
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NewsPrince鈥檚 Foundation pursues Cabe鈥檚 role
Traditionalist body will offer design review services 鈥渘otwithstanding the opinions of a London architectural elite鈥�
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NewsEnglish Heritage planning director axed in restructure
Steven Bee is being made redundant after seven years at EH after role is merged
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NewsMorrell berates architects
Chief construction adviser Paul Morrell compared the 鈥渋rrational exuberance鈥� in recent architecture to the hedonism of the financial markets in a speech yesterday.
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NewsAghobili Hotel by Henning Larsen: On a high
Aghobili Hotel in Abastumani, Georgia, is designed by Henning Larsen Architects.Engineer Buro Happold and Danish architect Henning Larsen have won an international design competition for a new 200-room, 22,000m2 luxury hotel in Georgia, eastern Europe. The new Aghobili Hotel will be situated in the Meskheti mountain range near the spa ...
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Styles & Wood to rebrand after turnover warning to City
Property services firm Styles & Wood has said that it will rebrand to become known as S&W, two weeks after it issued a turnover warning to the City
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Rok administrators in last push to sell contracts
Hopes of selling whole business gone as divisions shut down and potential buyers back away
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Atkins academy goes international
Atkins plans to roll out its nuclear training academy internationally.
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NewsTaylor Wimpey clinches 拢950m credit deal
A refinancing by Taylor Wimpey was the highlight among respectable interim statements to the City by three of the biggest housebuilders this week, despite a no-show from the traditional boost in autumn sales
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NewsHyder axes 300 jobs but insists cull is now over
Finance director says staffing levels will now remain 鈥檅roadly flat鈥� after profit rises by two-thirds
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NewsLatest construction appointments : 19 November 2010
Barratt has appointed Tom Keevil general counsel and company secretary. He joins from United Utilities where he held the same position.
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British Land reveals 拢1.5bn London development programme
Developer British Land has committed to a 拢1.5bn development programme in the London office market, it announced on Tuesday
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NewsMansell wins 拢24m contract to build Hackney school
Contractor will consolidate Cardinal Pole Catholic School鈥檚 facilities onto one site
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NewsLife after death for Cabe arm as housing rating tool revived
锘緿esign watchdog to set up Community Interest Company to take on 星空传媒 for Life business
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NewsGovernment U-turn on planning levy
Coalition pledges to stick with Labour planning tariff after all