All Building articles in 06 June 2014
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Green light for £40m Nine Elms bridge
Competition to design a new footbridge across the River Thames is set to be launched later his year
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GCS video: Vince Cable
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills discusses the industrial strategy and role of the construction industry at the Government Construction Summit 2014
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Osborne floats plan for third high-speed rail link
Chancellor says trans-Pennine high-speed link connecting Manchester and Leeds would drive economies of the North
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Pinewood Studios gets green light for £200m expansion
Development, drawn up by Arup, will double the size of studios and will be built over 15 years
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Willmott Dixon bags £120m Flemingate scheme
Willmott Dixon has been confirmed as main contractor on a £120m retail-led development in Beverly, Yorkshire
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UK and China ink nuclear and rail deals
Countries sign agreement to co-operate on developing the civil nuclear supply chain
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Comment
Handling the worker shortage
With both the Bank of England and the government pushing for greater housing production to deal with an overheating market and rising prices, it begs the question: who’s going to build them?
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Call for clearer policies on green offices
Report by Green Construction Board and Property Industry Alliance says green policies are too complex
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Carillion wins £70m Saudi hospital job
Firm’s Saudi Arabian business picks up major hospital contract in Riyadh
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Osborne unveils plan to boost development on brownfield land
Chancellor announces move to pre-approve development on brownfield sites
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Government launches drive to boost number of female engineers
The government has announced a £30m fund to encourage more women into the sector
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Consultants scoop £750m public sector framework
Exclusive: More than a dozen firms win places on long-awaited UK SBS framework - but big names miss out on UK lots
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Revealed: How £750m framework winners scored
UK SBS ranked the 11 winners of the UK lots on price, quality and total score
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Affordable housing starts jump 15%
Affordable housing starts were up last year but completions slightly down, according to new official statistics.
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National BIM skills push launched
The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has unveiled a countrywide series of programmes to train a network of BIM champions
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Boris to fund clean-up of key London sites
Boris Johnson is poised to unveil a funding package to decontaminate London’s hardest-to-deliver brownfield sites
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Builders are not such bad drivers, afterall
Survey reveals that builders are among the safest drivers in the country, but engineers are the worst
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Balfour Beatty high flier joins McLaren
Appointment designed to strengthen contractor’s major projects offer
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Features
Contractors through the recession: Part 3
In the final installment of Building’s analysis of major contractor’s businesses pre and post recession, we look at which firms have seen the biggest turnover increases and falls
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