06 May 2011
Building
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32 jobs lost at Morgan Sindall
06 May 2011
The losses came after the firm closed its piling division
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Aecom experts added to DL's 'Tall Buildings Group'
12 May 11
Firm says global network of experience will establish Aecom as global leader in tall buildings
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Aecom quarterly revenues up by a fifth
9 May 11
Net income falls slightly over same period as exits Libya
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Apollo cuts 70% of staff at M&E acquisition
06 May 2011
Cancelled projects and centralisation led to job losses at firm bought for £1m in 2010
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Balfour ties up £203m street lighting contract
6 May 11
Contractor reaches financial close on its fifth PPP street lighting concession
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Balfour: UK market beats expectations
10 May 11
Contractor picks up two council jobs worth £200m
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BAM lands £20m Cardiff University job
12 May 11
Construction on medical research facility begins next week
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Barratt completes £1bn refinancing
11 May 11
New loans arrangement costs it £55m
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Boris' housing space standards 'to be watered down'
3 May 11
Independent examiner says Boris must relent on “hobbit homes” ban
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Bovis Homes reports strong spring sales
11 May 11
Housebuilder reports 12% increase in reservations and 20% more visitors, but sales remain well below historic levels
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Brit makes St Petersburg cultural quarter shortlist
12 May 11
David Chipperfield is on a shortlist of four for the prestigious design competition
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Camden tenders £750K estates survey job
9 May 11
Local authority requires firms to assess housing, hostels and commercial units
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Canada: 'Where $340bn dreams come true'
06 May 2011
What makes Canada possibly the most attractive country in the world for contractors right now? Perhaps it’s something to do with the billions of dollars it has to spend on construction. The trick is breaking into this highly lucrative market
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Concrete Geometries - 6 – 27 May 2011
6 May 11
Concrete Geometries: How Spaces Move People is a free exhibition featuring 20 projects by international architects and designers aiming to challenge contemporary thinking on architectural space.
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Construction experts: ‘We don’t trust ONS output data’
06 May 2011
Leading industry figures believe statistics from the ONS are inaccurate
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Construction opportunities for UK firms in Iraq
11 May 11
Research & Markets report outlines potential sectors of growth
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Cost model: City of London offices
06 May 2011
With uncertain prospects for finance, recovery in office development is likely to remain cautious. Refurbishment and reuse will remain alternatives but the low-carbon agenda will transform both these and new build, say Iain Parker and Graham Jones of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company
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Councils 'to accept cash for planning'
12 May 11
Amendment to localism bill shocks green groups
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Croudace grew turnover by 10% in 2010
06 May 2011
SME profile: Housebuilder used disciplined growth strategy and attention to detail to buck the trend
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Culture clash - Las Arenas, Barcelona
06 May 2011
What do you get when you turn a 19th-century bullring into a 21st-century shopping centre? A theatrical melding of Spain’s cultural past and present
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Cyril Sweett shifts focus from UK
06 May 2011
The firm has said 57% of its order book is from outside Europe
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Don’t shut out commercial PV, says ECA
6 May 11
Government review of feed-in tariffs has made many non-domestic solar PV schemes unviable, chief exec warns
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Dragados to draft in foreign experts on Crossrail project
06 May 2011
Spanish construction firm brings in tunnelling specialists on £500m JV with Sisk
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EC Harris in major global expansion after Saudi win
06 May 2011
Consultant’s nuclear project to boost staff in Saudi Arabia, while acquisition kickstarts growth in China
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Energy Bill must make DECs mandatory, industry demands
10 May 11
Letter to Prime Minister argues that energy efficiency ratings should be rolled out to private buildings
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Ernst & Young expands construction team
30 Mar 11
Firm appoints in construction and real estate advisory services in NY and expands in California
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Fire on Blackfriars station site
8 Apr 11
Blaze started at around 11.45am and two fire engines called
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Firms get skates on for £15m Scottish leisure scheme
9 May 11
Live Active Leisure in Perth seeks project manager for ice and water park
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Firms may get vote on CITB levy
06 May 2011
Move is part of a push to democratise CITB
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Firms support schools concert at the O2
06 May 2011
Free concert to help charity the Transformation Trust
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Firms that chose not to fight OFT hopeful fines may be reduced
06 May 2011
Lindum Group, which did not appeal, hopes its fine could now be slashed by 80%
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First Impressions: Gensler’s 'Snow in the City'
1 May 11
Student architects discuss the proposition to convert the Olympic park media centre into an indoor snow centre
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Five easy steps to good customer service
11 May 11
Make sure your company gives customer service a good name
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Fusion 21 reveals specialists on £30m frameworks
11 May 11
Roofing and redecoration frameworks span four years
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Galliford Try's Olympic blocks delayed
12 May 11
Firm’s construction work on athlete’s village eight weeks late
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German cladding giant Lindner buys Prater
6 May 11
Acquisition of one of the UK’s largest specialist contractors will be announced on Monday
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Green Investment Bank 'must be able to borrow'
9 May 11
Government advisor calls for beefed up role and more nuclear generation
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Hansom: Business and pleasure
5 May 11
It’s all about friends in high places this week, from royal consorts, to OBEs, to those jammy fellows who win radio quizzes. Throw in an inappropriate meeting in a hot tub to seal the deal …
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HMRC targets construction tax abuses
9 May 11
Extra 100 officers to tackle false self-employment and labour providers who avoid tax
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House price falls slow in spring heat
10 May 11
RICS data shows the rate of reduction at lowest for nine months
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ISG wins £8m dance studios deal
6 May 11
Project on London’s South Bank is for UK’s oldest dance company
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Land Secs reveal latest Victoria plans
6 May 11
Mixed-use development planned for 66-74 Victoria Street
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Latest construction appointments: 6 May 2011
06 May 2011
This week NG Bailey, MJP Architects, Fireco and Bilco have made new appointnments and a new planning consultancy is founded
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Lindner confirms acquisition of Prater
9 May 11
German giant snaps up one of the UK’s leading specialists
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London Square starts first development
6 May 11
New London housebuilder begins £30m scheme in Wimbledon
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Mears' chairman to have pay reduced after PwC review
06 May 2011
The firm was told it needed to be more transparent about senior staff’s pay
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Morgan Sindall lands £30m housing contract
11 May 11
Lovell to build 200 homes in North Yorkshire
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Mott MacDonald offsets UK decline with overseas growth
06 May 2011
Engineering giant cuts staff by 10% in two years but American business thrives
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My digital life: Kent Gardner
06 May 2011
BlackBerry, Android or iPhone?
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NSCC state of trade survey reveals specialists’ fears
10 May 11
NSCC state of trade survey reveals specialists’ fears
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Nuclear comparison
10 May 11
Yesterday’s leaked spat between climate secretary Chris Huhne and business secretary Vince Cable over whether or not to take the climate change committee’s advice over energy targets comes hot on the heels of its report yesterday into how that energy will be generated.
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Office demand on the rise, says RICS
6 May 11
Commercial demand increased in the first quarter of 2011
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OFT faces uncertain future as fines cut by total of 84%
06 May 2011
Outcome of cover pricing appeals comes as the government considers future of watchdog
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On demand performance bonds: Simon Carves vs Ensus UK
12 May 11
This case concerned an “on demand” performance bond, and raises issues rarely addressed as to the extent to which a beneficiary may be prevented from seeking payment under a demand bond by the terms of the contract in respect of which the bond is provided.
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Outlook not as bleak as ONS suggests, says CPA
9 May 11
Construction Products Association data shows a big improvement in sales for manufacturers
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Phase one of Masdar complete
06 May 2011
The $1.4bn first phase of one of the world’s most sustainable cities, Masdar in Abu Dhabi, has been completed.
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Prisk seeks to reassure architects over standardisation drive
4 Apr 11
Good design can help save costs, says minister
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Rail thieves steal £43m of cable
10 May 11
Three-year total includes 52% increase in the last year alone
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RCA head of architecture steps down
9 May 11
Nigel Coates leaves his position at the London college after 16 years to concentrate on his design practice
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RCA student wins RIBA scholarship
12 May 11
Joseph Deane awarded Stephen Williams Scholarship to complete his architecture MA
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Regeneration chiefs hit out at £260m cut
10 May 11
£2bn housing pathfinder scheme investment could be wasted
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RIBA window-dresses Regent Street
12 May 11
RIBA architects collaborate with shops on Regent Street to create work that fuses innovations in architecture with retail design
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Rob Smith retires from Davis Langdon after 36 years
06 May 2011
Former senior partner left the firm on 30 April
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Saw 3D
06 May 2011
This scene looks like something out of a horror film waiting to happen …
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Security threat
06 May 2011
Never mind government targets and legislation; the risk that energy supplies may simply dry up is becoming the key driver in the sustainability agenda, says James Gray
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Shapps promises 12 month planning guarantee
11 May 11
Housing minister says all planning decisions will be taken in a year
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Should UK consultants keep flying the Union Jack?
6 May 11
Desperate to do most of their work overseas, will UK construction companies be able to hang on to a valued British brand?
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Sir Robert McAlpine profit slumps by almost a quarter
06 May 2011
This was despite the firm landing some significant contract awards
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Steady as she goes
06 May 2011
Things might - just might - be getting better for construction. But don’t get carried away - anything from raw materials inflation to spending cuts could knock us off course
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Surely some mistake
5 May 11
Both the ONS and Ucatt are coming under fire from industry leaders and members this week
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TeCSA rules! OK?
06 May 2011
With a new Construction Act on the way, adjudicators are going to have to up their game. Luckily, one nominating body has updated its rules in anticipation
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The Defective Premises Act: The hole truth
5 May 11
The lovely new home you just bought is covered by the Defective Premises Act if it’s a new dwelling. But if it’s a massive refurb job, you might find yourself in need of a spade
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The Defective Premises Act: What hole?
06 May 2011
Hole? What hole? Ben Worthington, who acted for the project manager on Jenson vs Faux, discussed by Tony Bingham, says the Defective Premises Act has been properly restricted to new dwellings
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The small print
06 May 2011
Readers are concerned with the nitty gritty this week. Did completion mean practical completion or not? Was it a bank or a public holiday? More importantly, to pay or not to pay?
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Trading normal despite Middle East turmoil, says Hyder
6 Apr 11
Internationally focused consultant says Bahrain office is now fully operational again
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Travis Perkins grows 6%
9 May 11
Interim results reveal rise in revenues from major divisions
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Ucatt: Out for the count?
06 May 2011
In 2009 Alan Ritchie was voted leader of Ucatt - put there by 5.3% of its membership. But now the ballot has been ruled void and the union is having to spend its time appealing the decision and salvaging its reputation. How did it get into this mess?
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Vestas to build wind turbine factory in North Kent
11 May 11
Investment by Danish wind farm company will create 2,000 jobs
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Voluntary insolvencies jump 20%
6 May 11
There were 586 voluntary liquidations in Q1 2010 compared to 486 in the previous quarter
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What's driving firms to the wall?
9 May 11
KPMG’s director of restructuring Martin Kelly explains why voluntary insolvency figures have jumped 20%
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Who's afraid of Zaha Hadid?
5 May 11
London developers are, says the world-renowned architect. But that’s not going to stop her increasing her presence in the UK and following up her aquatics centre success with tall buildings in the capital. She talks about work, high points and low - and why her clubbing days are over
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Wolverton Park: urban retreat
06 May 2011
A £35m residential development in Milton Keynes has been selected as the sole UK entry in an international shortlist of nominees for the Urban Land Institute’s Awards for Excellence
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Wonders and Blunders
06 May 2011
?Billy Reading applauds the Barbican for stitching together old and new elements in a historic setting, but boos the unsustainable Palm Jumeirah for assaulting its surroundings
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WSP is owed £5m after exiting Libya
06 May 2011
The debt is in unpaid bills and trade debts
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Zaha Hadid makes rich list with £37m fortune
10 May 11
Architect appears on list for first time but wealth dwarved by other construction multi-millionaires
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Zaha Hadid sets sights on London skyline
06 May 2011
Architect wants to move into high-rise commercial development
