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MCG boss criticises PFI batching

2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

Dermot Gleeson, the incoming chairman of the Major Contractors Group, has outlined a five-point plan to improve the PFI process

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Government may axe skills card in favour of national ID

2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

Home Office believes Construction Skills Certification Scheme could provide model for a national identity card

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Sex offenders free to work on high-risk airport sites

2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

Secret documents reveal that the anti-terror clampdown will not apply to those convicted of bestiality

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Emcor sues McAlpine for £1m

2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

M&E contractor Emcor Drake & Scull has issued a High Court writ against Sir Robert McAlpine for £1m in damages after it was thrown off the £140m Dudley hospital PFI project in the West Midlands last December

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Sabotage

2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

Contractors are facing a worrying trend: the sabotaging of sites by their own workers – sometimes even by their own security teams – and the cost of putting the damage right is beginning to hurt. Now they're getting tough on the vandals

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Fear and loathing: The saga of the Venetian

2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

The story of the construction of, and subsequent court battles over, one of the world's most glamorous hotels would not be out of place in a Hollywood blockbuster

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Government sees no end to employer's liability crisis

2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

Firms give muted response to Department for Work and Pensions report into spiralling insurance premiums

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Carillion spies on saboteurs

2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

Carillion has installed secret video cameras on sites to catch out workers vandalising equipment and completed parts of projects

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NFB strikes deal with insurer to cut liability premiums

2003-05-30T00:00:00Z

Federation plans to announce details of cut price cover for vetted firms at its annual meeting next month

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Driver goes into administration

2003-05-30T00:00:00Z

The managing director of regional contractor Driver Construction resigned this week after the firm was put into administration

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McAlpine leads utilities race

2003-05-23T00:00:00Z

Alfred McAlpine has emerged as favourite to buy £100m-turnover utilities group Subterra, an arm of Thames Water

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Kier moves to avert collapse at Bournemouth mall

2003-05-23T00:00:00Z

Concrete specialist recalled because of fears over integrity of multistorey car park at £65m shopping centre

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Dawn drugs raid on Skanska's MoD HQ site

2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

Military police have carried out a dawn raid on Skanska's landmark Ministry of Defence headquarters refurbishment project in Whitehall

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BPF sets up construction clients' body

2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

The British Property Federation has set up a body to replace the Confederation of Construction Clients, which was wound up late last year

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Dear John

2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Prescott's extraordinary assault on the Construction Industry Training Board has incensed the industry and triggered a flood of letters to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV. We hear what you're saying

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Latham rebuffs Prescott attack

2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Construction Industry Training Board chairman Sir Michael Latham has written to deputy prime minister John Prescott to reject his allegation that the CITB is a "disgrace"

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BAA faces crunch decision over electricians' pay at T5

2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Firm reluctant to concede wage rises for M&E staff for fear of setting benchmark for other workers.

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Bovis Lend Lease shake-up makes way for young blood

2003-05-02T00:00:00Z

'Wonderboy' Jason Millett takes on expanded role, as key director Les Chatfield stays 'for foreseeable future'.

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Laing O'Rourke in talks to buy Carillion's piling arm

2003-05-02T00:00:00Z

Contractor carries out due diligence on Carillion subsidiary – and is now on lookout for cladding firm.

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Scots procurement tsar to crack down on cost overruns

2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

Officials in London and Edinburgh draw up radical plans to cut costs and delays on public buildings.