All Building articles in 22 July 2011
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Comment
Marketing products: Are you adding value?
How can you make your businesss stand out? And what’s the difference between adding value and just adding stuff
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News
Architects wanted to design post-Olympics Park
Design competitions for public spaces in the park have been launched
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News
Canary Wharf and Qatari Diar sign JV to redevelop Shell Centre
Scheme is the latest project to kick off on London’s South Bank
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Features
View from my office: James Slattery
The BCQS director reports from his office in Jardins area of Sao Paulo
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News
Carillion bags £123m Canadian station
Contractor given its second job on Toronto subway extension
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News
MP Betts slams government's planning response
Chair of select committee says government has ’ignored evidence’ on regional plans
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Comment
The London 2012 Aquatics Centre: Star of the show?
Zaha Hadid’s £269m contribution to the Olympics is complete – and it has both triumphs and disappointments
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News
Turner and Townsend targets 60% overseas revenue
Chief executive Vincent Clancy spells out priorities as pre-tax profit drops 12%
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Comment
Presumption in favour?
Design Council Cabe’s Rachel Fisher on what the new planning framework means for design
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News
Gatwick Airport plans £60m heat and power plant
New scheme will serve north and south terminals
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News
Morgan Sindall awarded £65m Hull BSF contract hat-trick
Wins add to the contractor’s haul of BSF contracts for Hull council
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News
Developers welcome national planning framework
Councils to be told to approve permissions unless “significant and demonstrable” disbenefits
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News
Council approves plans to replace station demolished for Crossrail
Newham council backs new station at Pudding Mill Lane.
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Comment
Advance payment guarantees: Meritz Fire and Marine Insurance vs Jan de Nul NV and Codralux SA
In this case the court looked at whether the advance payment guarantees that were the subject of the claim were performance bonds (otherwise known as demand guarantees) or pure guarantees.
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News
Lending to construction falls £614m in June
Repayments outstrip loans to building firms, say bankers
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News
Saint-Gobain snaps up Build Center chain for £145m
French group also in exclusive talks for Wolseley’s French plumbing business Brossette