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Mitie optimistic about 2010
Outsourcing specialist confident it will hit expectations for full-year results
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Chief Mark Davies to leave Connaught
Boss of integrated services group to leave at the end of August to ‘seek new challenges elsewhere’
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WYG non-executive director to retire
John Richardson joined board 12 years ago and was also chair to consultant engineer’s audit committee
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Balfour scoops £270m of road and rail work
Work including the £50m upgrade of Edinburgh Waverley station by 2013
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The Prater principle: Michael Prater interview
Over 60 years, Michael Prater’s family firm has grown from a one-man band to become the country’s biggest envelope specialist. As the company fights off its fourth recession, he tells Roxane McMeeken how it’s done
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Vertical limit
Our thanks to Xana Askew of Cassidy and Ashton Architects in Preston, who sent us these photos of urban mountaineers tackling the north face of the building next door. “I took these from my third-floor office fire escape door. Some people have no concept of vertigo … or health and ...
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Latest construction appointments - 29 January 2010
Architect Populous has appointed Ashley Munday principal in the group’s newly formed masterplanning team
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OFT firms face exclusion from council tender lists
North Yorkshire is latest council to turn up heat on contractors, but lawyers warn more could follow
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The rings of Temenos: Anish Kapoor in Middlesbrough
His design for the Olympic site may be a long way off, but artist Anish Kapoor’s latest project in Middlesbrough is taking shape
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OFT victim Concentra bought out of administration
Owners sign deal to buy back £8m of contracts, but creditors may only recover 10% of £4m debt
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Brookfield and Mace vie for £190m Heron scheme
Contractors thought to be frontrunners for 35-storey tower next to Barbican in City of London
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Balfour Beatty closes in on Multibuild deal
About 60 Multibuild workers will be transferred to Balfour Beatty in an acquisition expected to be completed today
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A third of SMEs will cut jobs in next three months
FMB survey also reveals that 38% of members made lay-offs in final quarter of 2009
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Tributes pour in after death of ‘inspirational’ Alan Cherry
The industry has reacted with shock and sadness at the death last weekend of Alan Cherry, founder of housebuilder Countryside Properties
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Shepherd to cut turnover 40% over next two years
Contractor to restructure away from design-and-build work, and aims to reach £500m in three years
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Citywatch: Croissants and carbonara
As all good Europeans know, most Americans don’t see our continent as a mixture of individual countries and cultures
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Broadway Malyan hit by £809k of bad debt
Profits at architect Broadway Malyan have plunged 83% as a result of bad debt in the Middle East and redundancy costs
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Insolvencies rise 33% in 2009
Nearly 3,000 construction firms entered insolvency in 2009, according to figures from accountant Pricewaterhouse Coopers
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Keepmoat buys Milnerbuild
Social housing firm Keepmoat has bought Milnerbuild, a Leeds-based specialist with a £10m turnover
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Wolseley’s European boss loses job in boardroom shake-up
Materials firm Wolseley has made its European chief executive redundant in a boardroom shake-up