All Building articles in 16 October 2009
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Capita Symonds on the Middle East market
Business development director and new UAE regional director discuss new markets
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Amec pays £5m after Serious Fraud Office investigation
Failure to keep accurate records forces engineering consultant to stump up £4.9m plus costs
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Vinci and Robert McAlpine scoop £5.5m Manchester hospital job
Joint venture will fit out part of Royal Oldham Hospital to create haemotology ward, day case unit and surgical ward
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Energy minister pledges date for national policy statement
David Kidney says he is looking for 'earliest day in November' to publish full document
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Shortlist for £1.8bn prisons PFI framework revealed
Carillion, Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke among firms competing for contracts to design, build and run up to five 1,500-place prisons
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Video: 'PfS won't ignore regional firms again'
Partnerships for Schools academy director Colin Howell promises opportunities for smaller firms in the £4bn academies framework
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Video: How spending cuts will affect school building
Ed Burton, Capita Symonds’ head of education, talks to Building about how a reduction in capital expenditure will affect the sector
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Housing sales slump forces Land Registry to cut 1,500 jobs
Major restructuring to save £500m over five years will also mean closing five local offices
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Radar-invisible turbine could blow away wind farm objectors
QinetiQ/Vestas 'stealth' turbine is hoped to remove a major planning barrier to wind power developments
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Video: Cabe's Peter Maxwell on designing schools in a downturn
Cabe's head of enabling public buildings explains how he believes design quality will survive a recession at BSEC North
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Cabe to publish primary school design guidelines
Watchdog's first guidance on primaries will provide 10 key ideas for well-designed schools
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Blacklisted worker wins fight against terror injunction
Judge describes Scottish & Southern Energy's case against sacked electrician as 'fanciful bordering on paranoid'
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Gateshead council to undertake £200m of housing improvements
Firms interested in four-year deal to improve 400 homes must tender before 24 November
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Parsons Brinckerhoff shareholders approve Balfour deal
Final hurdle completed for £380m acquisition of US consultant by Balfour Beatty, as vote secures 99% support
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Infrastructure Planning Commission confirms first projects
Government planning body to consider five wind farms, a biomass plant, two National Grid programmes and two nuclear plants
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BAA offers to buy homes affected by Heathrow third runway
Airports authority says it has made offer to ‘reduce uncertainty faced by residents wishing to sell properties’
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Rotating hotel planned for Croatian coast
Hotel will rotate 1.3 times a day within an infinity edged swimming lake
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Mount Eden Land sues Metropolis over the state of a property
Property owner demands almost £300,000, claiming its tenant failed to keep London building in good condition
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Kitewood gets green light for mixed development
Developer receives planning permission for 460 homes plus retail and leisure facilities in north-west London
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S G Hart vs the Smiths: Adjudication claims
Our Fenwick Elliott expert discusses whether it is possible to set off liquidates damages against a previous adjudication