Congress also has voiced concern over charges of fraud against the main contractor, First Kuwait.

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Fire Minister Bob Neill said agreement had been reached with main contractor Cassidian to end the project.

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The construction segment is in business of constructing residential, institutional, industrial and commercial properties as the main contractor.

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The clinic's main contractor pulled out, so Planned Parenthood assumed this role itself.

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The main contractor working on the restoration of historic Lews Castle on Lewis, in the Western Isles, has gone into administration.

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The one-year warranty has expired but the authority said the main contractor has agreed to carry out most of the repairs over the next three months.

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Anwar publicly acknowledged there was friction between tycoon Ting Pek Khiing's Ekran company, which is handling the project, and the main contractor, the Swiss-Swedish firm of Asea Brown Boveri.

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Work to expand the refinery was sub-contracted by Total's main contractor - engineering firm Jacobs - to an Italian company, IREM, which decided to use its own foreign workforce.

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Neath-based Express Reinforcements won a contract from the main contractor building the Olympic Stadium, while Euroclad in Cardiff won contracts on both the Olympic Stadium and the main broadcast centre.

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In this case, the main contractor is given total responsibility for the entire project, selecting even the component suppliers, and checking everything before handing over the finished vehicle to the customer.

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In the sample of of files reviewed, we noted that the main criterion for selecting a particular contractor appeared, in many cases, to be the purported availability of the contractor to commence the works within a reasonable timescale (which Property Conservation officers advised us in interview was considered to be approximately six weeks from instructions).

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Since April last year contractor, C Spencer, has been wrapping the westernmost cable between the two main towers in an airtight neoprene membrane.

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