All articles by Olivia Boyd – Page 6
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Comment
The G3 summit: How much trouble are we in and how do we get out?
At this point in the business cycle we have at least some idea of what the recession has done to consultants, and how they can regroup and fight back. Three QS leaders comment
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Apollo and Durkan lead fightback against fines
Contractors intend to take ruling to Competition Appeal Tribunal, as others consider their options
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Chelsea Barracks shortlist 10 reveal design teams
Extended shortlist of consortiums in the running to work on controversial London scheme
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Willmott Dixon may appeal against £4.5m OFT fine
Contractor will 'carefully consider' details of decision over cover pricing and grounds for appeal
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Guilty contractors should not be blacklisted, says OFT
Office of Fair Trading says firms fined for cover pricing should not be penalised by clients
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Mortgages fall 13% in August
Figures from Council of Mortgage Lenders show a decline on lending in July but underlying lending has 'stabilised'
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Philip Youell interview: ‘We read the market right’
No new major schemes in the UK or Europe, a global recession and the collapse of business in Dubai. So why is EC Harris so bullish? Chief executive Philip Youell explains how his re-engineering of the (former) cost consultant has been vindicated
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Richard Rogers to quit London mayor's design advisor role
Architect to relinquish positions on Boris Johnson’s design advisory and Great Spaces panels
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John Hutton lined up as EDF adviser
Former energy minister would become a member of French power giant’s stakeholder advisory panel
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Babcock to buy commercial arm of UK atomic energy agency
Business secretary says acquisition will allow agency to ‘take advantage of new opportunities in the nuclear industry’
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Pritzker winner eyes £27m Lakes job
Some of architecture’s biggest names, including Richard Meier and Rick Mather, are lining up to bid for a £27m steamboat museum on Lake Windermere
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Scotland axes £400m Glasgow airport rail link
Draft Scottish Budget will exclude infrastructure project as pressure on public spending increases
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Balfour Beatty buys Parsons Brinckerhoff for £380m
Contractor announces £353m rights issue to fund acquisition of US engineer in bid to boost infrastructure business
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Doon Street scheme planning decision upheld
High Court rejects opposition to leisure and residential development by English Heritage and Westminster council
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Rolls Royce and EDF team up to build nuclear plants
Agreement covers engineering and technical support in pre and post construction phases for four new power stations
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New Covent Garden Market to seek planning for Foster-designed revamp
Neil Tomlinson is also working on the outline application for entire south London market site
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Report praises UK construction's green achievements
But building industry must do still more to reach the goals of a sustainable construction strategy
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Gordon Brown admits public spending faces 'cuts'
PM tells trade unionists expenditure will be reduced on 'unnecessary programmes' and 'lower priority budgets'
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Herbert T Forrest chooses new boss
Lee McCarren is third chief executive in over 50 years and the first from outside the Forrest family
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Billington posts 9% rise in first-half profit
Steel and engineering specialist also achieved 5% rise in revenue in past six months