All QS articles – Page 102
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Mouchel rejects second Costain bid
Consultant says £150m Costain bid ’significantly undervalues the business’
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Costain makes new £150m bid for Mouchel
Contractor bumps up offer by £30m in attempt to win over Mouchel shareholders
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New Year honours for industry figures
Arup’s Peter Head and Aggregate Industries’ Bill Bolsover also receive CBEs for services to engineering and construction
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RICS: House prices to fall 2% in 2011
Shortage of homes will prevent any big falls in house prices next year
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Arcadis to rebuild Corrie set after tram fireball
Consultant to act as QS on new Coronation Street set in Salford after explosive stunt destroyed old location
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EC Harris: we’re still strong enough to float
EC Harris remains bullish about its plan to float on the stock exchange although it has lost almost one in five employees and its revenue has tumbled by 17.6%
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Quentin Shears: Secret Santa
Quentin Shears is a senior partner at quantity surveyor Newt UK, the Hertfordshire outpost of US multinational GatorCorp. As the year grinds to an end, Quentin usually finds himself undergoing intensive anger management therapy merely to make it through the Christmas party season. This year, however, has found him in ...
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The sharks gather around Mouchel
For all the turmoil surrounding consultant Mouchel over the past fortnight, the City has dumped its share price just a touch above where it was before it heard that Deloitte had been called in to conduct a “limited business review” on 2 December
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Turner & Townsend wins second tranche of free schools
Consultant wins the second tranche of 12 contracts to design the government’s flagship free schools
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BAA drops Davis Langdon from Heathrow framework
EC Harris and Turner & Townsend retain role to manage £3.5bn construction programme
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Features
An overview of 2010
It was the year we all knew was going to be bad. It was just a question of how bad. The key events everyone was waiting for, with bated breath, were the general election in May and George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review in October
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Construction sheds 17,000 jobs
There are now only 2.1m employed in the UK construction industry according to new data
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RICS: House prices fall again
Sales, buyers and sellers all falling away in Christmas slow-down
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Aecom reveals new European chief executive
Former Mouchel director will head up $750m turnover division that includes Davis Langdon
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EC Harris and T&T win eight-figure global deals from Shell
Consultants win contract with Shell worth £10m over four years
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Guess who came for dinner?
Richard Steer was tired of shouting at the business secretary every time he appeared on his TV screen, so instead he invited him over for a bit of a chat …
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Jonathan Goring: The incredible jumping man
It’s not many firms that think government cuts are a good thing for their business, but Capita Symonds boss Jonathan Goring wants the outsourcing that comes with them to help him leapfrog his competitors