All Building articles in 06 August 2010
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WSP expands Vietnamese office
Environmental building services arm WSP Lincolne Scott joins consultant’s office in Ho Chi Minh
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Timber frame tops out at Daventry's iCon
The £8.5m project in Daventry aims to attract 60 sustainable construction and technology firms
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Abolition of regional planning strategies: NIMBYism at work?
Abolition of regional housing targets risks putting planning decision in hands of reluctant locals
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Weston Homes snaps up two sites and plans 250 homes
Sites in Uxbridge and Grays have a potential development value of £38m
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Rok shares tumble after suspension of FD
Chief executive Garvis Snook says he feels ’hugely let down’ as he reveals £8.5m hole in accounts
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Mukund Patel: How free schools will work
Why BSF had to end and the new opportunities for construction in the next round of school delivery
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APC extras: M006 – Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution procedures
A mandatory competency to level 1, M006 also features as an optional competency on a range of different pathways
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M&S's Steve Fuller on collaboration
M&S’s head of construction and architecture says there should be more collaboration in the supermarket supply chain
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Mark Underwood: 'How local sourcing can secure planning for supermarkets'
Sourcing and recruiting locally can be a key tool in gaining planning approval for supermarkets says Mark Underwood, director of town planning at Drivers Jonas Deloitte
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John Lewis' Tony Jacobs on partnering versus tendering
It’s difficult to keep a partnering ethos in the supermarket supply chain when tendering always delivers better value, says Tony Jacob, head of construction and maintenance at John Lewis.
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McInerney looks for €40m rescue
Troubled housebuilder turns to US private equity group for cash injection
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Balfour Beatty profit jumps 32% to £141m
Better than expected results helped by Parsons Brinkerhoff acquisition
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Rok suspends finance chief
’Serious failings’ in financial controls leads to profit warning and suspension
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ICI develops paint-checking laser beam
Veri-Tag paint additive allows a laser to check that contractors are following designers’ specifications
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Energy generating window panes could be on market in five years
Nanotechnology could allow solar cells to be sprayed onto window panes according to Norwegian inventors
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Fire fears prompt timber stairs safety scheme
BWF third party certification scheme aims to eliminate dangerous practice within stair manufacturing industry
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Abolition of regional strategies 'unlawful'
Cala Homes pushes for Judicial Review of scrapping of plans containing housing targets
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Countryside wins planning for huge Cambridge extension
Housebuilder given permission for 2,550-home Clays Farm scheme
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Manchester approves 33-storey student tower
Second tallest building in Manchester will provide accommodation for 520 students
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RICS reports first house price falls for a year
Surveyors inccreasingly pessimistic over future home prices