All Building articles in 9 April 2009
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Commercial property values plummet 41%
Figures show significant drop since 2007 peak, report shows
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Crossrail will yield 600 truck-loads of spoil a day
Consolidations and logistics facilities will be set up for deliveries on rail scheme
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Tories would fund three carbon capture schemes
Shadow chancellor announces cash as part of £30bn 'green technology recovery plan'
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White Young Green forced to deny takeover
Share price rockets 155% as engineer publicly confirms no offers have been made
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Disputes in the Middle East - how best to get a happy ending
Local culture and customs must be taken into account when dealing with disputes in the region
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Murray & Roberts pulls out of £1.3bn Dubai airport job
South African contractor's withdrawal from concourse scheme is its second UAE contract scrapped in weeks
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Network Rail defends bonus scheme in leaked memo
Remuneration committee chair rejects comparisons with controversial bank bonuses, in letter seen by Times
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Building societies hit by credit rating downgrade
Ratings on some mutuals crash down three notches following concern over house prices
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Joyriders crash 75-ton crane into ditch
Two teenagers were arrested after crane in Indiana was hijacked
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Buyers circle Heron tower steel contractor
Administrator for Allerton, which went bust last week, says there has been interest in its bridges and engineering arms
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Site worker pay rates frozen for two years
BATJIC says 2008 recommended levels will remain for a further year as small businesses suffer
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Rate your boss - take our quiz
Has your manager got what it takes to get your company through the recession? - Rate your leader in our psychology-based quiz
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Atkins loses £10m through 1,200 job cuts
Despite loss group says profit growth remains in line with expectations and orders remain solid
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Another US firm nabs Crossrail contract
Jacobs Engineering's appointment as project representative follows wins by Bechtel and Transcend
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Amec vs Universal Steels: Withholding documents as bargaining tool
Fenwick Elliott discusses a case in which Amec tried to obtain an injuction to make Universal deliver quality assurance document
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Five £100m-plus projects on-site in Birmingham
These are the big projects currently driving construction growth in Birmingham
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What's your point?
... the point is he'll get a spike somewhere painful if he falls in the void
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Record contraction for Singapore
Economy shrank by 19.7% in first quarter as a result of sharp drop in exports
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Polish government asks IMF for $20bn
Cash will increase bank reserves and help make Poland 'immune to the economic virus'
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Pochin appoints John Moss as chief executive
Moss spent 12 years at Amec and will replace David Shaw who retires in May