Friday30 July 2010

Expertise

Market forecast: On the level

The brief rise in tender prices is over but so, it seems, are the sharp falls that characterised last year. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports

The tracker: Back to reality

Hopes that increased activity at the start of the year would continue into the summer were dashed as the activity index fell to a six-month low

Guide to Building Regulations

Essential need-know facts about Parts A to P of the Building Regs

An icon falls

Demolition begins of the infamous Get Carter car park

International salary guide

Where are the big opportunities in 2010?

Passivhaus refurb diary

Robert Prewett turns to services in his Edwardian eco-makeover

Denise Chevin

Mixed greens Subscription Required

30 July 2010

To a minister in Whitehall, bringing forward regs changes by a year may not seem like much of a leap. But for firms in the real world, it promises massive disruption

Olympic Park, two years to go

Two years to go to London 2012 Subscription Required

27 Jul 10

Olympic officials and athletes tour Olympic Park to view construction progress

Planes 212

Vinci to replace Kier on £10m Heathrow T3 refurb Subscription Required

30 July 2010

Contractor is replaced ’by mutual consent’ with BAA after project ’not delivered as hoped’

Gatwick airport

Vinci wins £16.5m Gatwick airport job Subscription Required

28 Jul 10

Gatwick airport has awarded a new contract to redevelop its South Terminal to Vinci

Test tubes

Shepherd wins £16.5m Liverpool University contract Subscription Required

28 Jul 10

Six hundred researchers will work at Apex facility which will be completed by October 2011

Balfour Beatty wins £100m highways contract in Southampton Subscription Required

20 Jul 10

Balfour Beatty Workplace scoops 10-year contract for managing highways for Southampton City council

More contracts

Cuckoo

cuckoo Subscription Required

Mike Plymsol saw this skywalker at the 2,600m summit of the Jakobshorn mountain in Switzerland

Building TV

Video: London 2012 venues under construction Video Subscription Required

27 Jul 10

Watch Tim Crocker’s stunning film of London’s 2012 Olympic venues

Brickonomics

Nationwide joins other indexes to show house prices falling Subscription Required

House prices may be on the slide but there shouldn't be another collapse

More Brickonomics

Bangalore taxis

Arup, Mott and Balfour on PM's Indian trade trip Subscription Required

28 Jul 10

Bosses from Balfour Beatty, Mott McDonald and Arup are among 39 industry leaders on David Cameron’s trade delegation to India

Sao Paolo skyline

Giant Brazilian mega-church gains planning approval Subscription Required

23 Jul 10

Rogério Silva de Araújo’s 55m-tall design will seat 10,000 worshippers

Dubai construction waste

Hopkins to stay in Dubai despite legal wrangle Subscription Required

23 July 2010

Hopkins Architects is to keep its office in Dubai, despite being embroiled in a 30m dirhams (£5.4m) legal battle with state-owned developer Dubai Properties and having little work in the emirate

more global news

Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham

Relationship problems Subscription Required

30 July 2010

If an adjudicator has a prior connection with one of the advocates arguing a case, does that constitute ’apparent bias’? Here’s what the court had to say …

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Cost model: Shopping centre refurbs Subscription Required

18 June 2010

Many shopping centres hit by the recession need to reposition themselves to be fit for the upturn.

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