All Building articles in 01 March 2013 – Page 4
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NewsContractors sign up to prompt payment code
Laing O’Rourke, Carillion and Kier are among a clutch of major contractors to sing up to the government’s prompt payment code
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NewsLiverpool Waters avoids public inquiry
Eric Pickles has decided not to call in Peel Holdings’ controversial £5.5bn Liverpool Waters Development
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NewsAecom confirms second Lend Lease buy
Consultant confirms acquisition of Lend Lease’s Russian project and construction management arm
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NewsBDP wins Cardiff college design competition
Architect will design £26m city centre community campus
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NewsChinese specialist firm bags first UK contract
Far East Facade is latest Chinese firm to win work in the UK
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NewsContractual standards for BIM projects launched
CIC’s protocol sets out rights and liabilities of firms working on BIM projects
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NewsISG construction edges into profit on margin of 0.2%
ISG’s UK construction business has posted an 18% rise in revenue to £280m, with margin of 0.2% generating profit of £700k
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NewsFosters to submit Thames Estuary proposal
Architect-led group will submit plans to the Airports Commission in July
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NewsGreen Construction Board to unveil routemap for 2050
Plans for industry to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 to be published later today at Ecobuild
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NewsFilm celebrating Olympic design premieres
A short film about the architects and engineers that made the London 2012 Olympic games possible has premiered at Ecobuild today
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NewsIndustry challenged to make up to 40% carbon cuts
Ecobuild latest: Green Construction Board sets out interim carbon reduction targets to keep sector on track to meet 2050 target
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NewsMajority of retrofit projects suffer cost overruns
Technology Strategy Board study of 37 projects finds delays common due to low skills, planning failures and remedial works
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NewsSkanska swoops on 100 Cheapside job
Contractor confirms £28m office scheme win in City of London
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NewsGovernment will consider 'tweaks' to Green Deal
Energy secretary Ed Davey has not ruled out changing elements of the Green Deal should the government’s flagship retrofit programme encounter problems
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NewsBalfour Beatty out of £300m Google race
Contractor knocked out of the race for Google’s £300m King’s Cross headquarters job, leaving three firms standing
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NewsGovernment faces legal action over scrapped 'conservatory tax'
Ecobuild latest: Association for the Conservation of Energy says it will seek a judicial review of government decision to scrap changes to building regulations
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NewsShuttleworth warns against 'efficient but nasty' design
Make founder says architects need to resist the temptation to design energy efficient buildings that don’t give humans ‘delight’
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NewsSkanska checked more than 60,000 names against blacklist
Skanska HR boss tells MPs about extent of contractor’s involvement with blacklisting organisation The Consulting Association
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NewsInfrastructure and repeat orders boost Costain
Contractor posts strong results with pre-tax profit up 9%
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NewsMorrell casts doubt on low carbon targets
Ecobuild latest: Former construction adviser says prospect of 80% carbon cut requires “heroic assumptions” to be made