All Building articles in 05 February 2010 – Page 5
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Citywatch: Nobody is indispensable (except Mark)
Shares in Connaught were showing no sign of recovery early this week after last Friday’s shock announcement that chief executive Mark Davies would part ways with the social housing specialist in August
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CommentThe little Ceausescus
When it comes to making changes to listed buildings, planners and conservation authorities are often unhelpful, ill-informed, and obstructive to the point of malice
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Universities may face even harsher capital spending cuts
Universities may face further cuts to capital spending on top of the reduction announced this week, it has emerged
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Capita swoops on Inventures
Capita Symonds has bought £7m-turnover healthcare specialist consultancy Inventures
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CommentA wiser course for busy fools
When times are desperate, there’s a temptation to grab anything that might boost our turnover. The game now should be to prepare for the upturn and increase margins
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CommentGovernment burglars
As Brian Green points out in his column on drumming up work, the government has pretty much kept the industry in business during the recession
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T Clarke bullish
M&E contractor T Clarke said it would beat its expected earnings in its final year results,expected in March
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Ditch the old buildings …
In response to “Morrell: Older buildings must be torn down” (building.co.uk, 25 January): not only were many sixties and seventies public buildings constructed with minimal resources, they were often planned to government handbooks that specified the maximum internal area that could not under any circumstances be exceeded
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CommentBuilding buys a pint: Eckersley O’Callaghan
We’re in the King’s Head in Islington, north London, on the day that Britain officially declared its deepest recession since the thirties over – by a whisker
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CommentBrian Green: This is your new playground
Relying on clients to create demand won’t work any more – construction firms need new, sophisticated business models that tie their profit to places rather than one-off projects
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Bowkett’s double shift
McCarthy & Stone has appointed Alan Bowkett chairman a week after fellow housebuilder Gladedale hired him for the same non-executive role. Bowkett has a reputation for turning round struggling firms.
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Bovis refinancing deal
Bovis Homes has signed a four-year £150m deal to replace its previous debt facility
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Public sector bosses raise fears over infrastructure funding
Almost three-quarters of public sector executives in the UK have said that a lack of funding and government ineffectiveness are the greatest obstacles facing infrastructure projects
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Rise in UAE clients calling in bonds
Lawyers have warned that contractors in the UAE could be hit with bills of millions of pounds owing to the rise in the number of developers calling in performance bonds
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The job’s in the blag
Guy Guinan As competition for jobs gets tougher, more candidates are embellishing their CVs. But it’s the employer who’ll be for the high jump if one of them subsequently messes up
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NewsPutting the beds in Beds
Anjulita Court care home in Bedford has just been completed for MHA in association with the Ibbett Trust
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NewsBAM for Bucks
The first phase of Buckinghamshire New University’s campus has been completed by BAM Construct
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CommentA cock and ball story
Tony Bingham If your little mistake turns out to be a massive mistake because of my little mistake, can you be made to pay the whole of the bill? Over to the Court of Appeal …
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Aukett threatens to make Halabi legal row personal
Architect will seek to make billionaire businessman liable if his companies fail to pay £500,000