All Building articles in 04 June 2010 – Page 4
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Hansom: Childminding
This week government officials babysit their ministers, architects make sure we mind our p’s and q’s, multibillion-pound rail projects scream and shout - and Building practises its keepie-uppies
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Government to halt BSF projects within weeks
As pressure from contractors for clarity mounts, officials prepare formal announcement
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Should you be tempted by Brazil?
Beach volleyball as the sun goes down, caipirinhas on demand and £360bn of government-assured infrastructure investment.
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Cracking Brazil
It’s hosting the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics, and has emerged from the credit crunch with barely a scratch. So why aren’t more UK firms working there?
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Ex-Redrow boss moves to Gladedale
Neil Fitzsimmons, the former boss of housebuilder Redrow, has become chief executive of Gladedale.
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Lend Lease prepares UK boardroom shake-up
Dan Labbad is to stamp his authority on Lend Lease’s UK business with a major management restructure
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Wonders & blunders with Maxwell Hutchinson
Maxwell Hutchinson dreads the decline of a health centre in Islington, but is sickened by a trip down Farringdon Road
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Blow me down: Nottingham University
Designed by Make, this £7m structure is the largest straw-bale building in the UK
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Embodied energy: The next big carbon challenge
Reducing the amount of embodied energy in building materials won’t be easy – but it’s essential
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Cabe to call for single tough housing benchmark
Design quango wants standard, based on Building for Life, to be included in planning regulation
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Gehry in Las Vegas: Just Frank being Frank
Gehry has taken on Vegas, and left it with an unusual mixed-use scheme: a brain health centre and ’event space’
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Baqus issues profit warning as public spending ‘disappears’
Listed QS Baqus has issued a profit warning as its public sector contracts dry up in the wake of the election
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Andrew Chisholm: Career break and back
One year ago, Andrew Chisholm shut the surveying firm he had spent 15 years building up, then took a seven-month break. But now he’s back with a new company – and a lot of his old staff
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Defective work: Making amends
If you’re an employer cheesed off with a contractor’s work, it’s tempting to get someone else in to sort it out, then claim for the costs. Here’s why you should count to 10
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Alternative medicine
How do I … avoid going to court? Litigation can leave you with a headache, not to mention a large hole in your wallet. But disputes do not have to end up in the courts, says Paul Flook
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Laing O'Rourke shuts Gulf division after staff cull
Global payroll is cut by almost half as Middle East downturn forces contractor to close regional hub
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CityWATCH world affairs and local fears
Although it had other things on its mind - a rather tense Middle East and Korean peninsular, not to mention the continuing threat of national bankruptcy in southern Europe - the City still had time to welcome the proposed takeover of BSS by Travis Perkins
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Aecom bags Brazilian clean-up job
Aecom’s UK planning and design arm is set to masterplan the redevelopment of São Paulo’s crime-ridden Nova Luz district, making it the latest British firm to benefit from Brazil’s construction boom
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Bank of Scotland abandons plan to sue over Silvertown
The bank which spent £60m and eight years working up plans for the £1.5bn development of Silvertown Quays in east London has withdrawn its threat to sue the London Development Agency over the termination of the scheme, Building understands.Two sources said Bank of Scotland, which had bankrolled developer SQL to ...
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Terry Farrell to masterplan 70-acre Earl’s Court site
Terry Farrell & Partners has won a competition to masterplan 70 acres of land on the site of the Earl’s Court exhibition centre in west London