All Building articles in 05 September 2008 – Page 5
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Contractors seek advice as redundancies rocket
Calls to NFB’s employment helpline double, compared with first seven months of 2007
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NewsDownturn hits QSs as Davis Langdon makes job cuts
The impact of the credit crunch spread to new parts of the industry this week as it emerged Davis Langdon was cutting staff, while several industry sources said fellow QS Arcadis AYH was also making cuts.
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NewsTaylor Wimpey lenders push for deal by October
Pressure to reach agreement grows as interest charges on debts are set to spiral to £170m
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Row erupts as rival slams ‘toxic’ RIBA contract
Institute hits back saying ACA’s alternative standard contract is confusing the market
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FeaturesThe delivery man: Robert Napier, new chair of the Homes and Communities Agency
Can Robert Napier build 240,000 homes a year and run the new government agency in the toughest housing market since the seventies?
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don’t
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Lovell wins scheme
Affordable housing developer Lovell has been chosen by Craven Housing Association to build a £2.4m affordable housing development in Hellifield, near Skipton, in North Yorkshire.
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MPs: management is key to PFI
PFI projects are not providing value for money because they are being “undermanaged” by public sector managers, MPs have told the government.
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CommentJ is for jurisdiction
The A-Z of construction law: Our instant course in legal concepts continues by asking where a construction contract says legal proceedings should be held
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NewsThe Heart of the matter
Developer First Base has gained planning permission for this 645-home mixed-use scheme on the site of the former Greenwich district hospital in south-east London.
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Urban village go-ahead
Chesterfield council has granted planning for the first phase of a £300m urban village on the edge of the town.
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NewsParadise found
Landscape architects Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol are to design the Venice Biennale’s first large-scale landscape installation on the grounds of a former nunnery.
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Insurers warn of fire risk from green roofs
Developers putting green roofs on their buildings may have to think again after one of the world’s largest insurers declared they were a fire risk.
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North Midland falls
Pre-tax profit at North Midland Construction has plummeted 60% because of the credit crunch.
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NewsLend Lease’s ‘face of Olympic village’ resigns
Nigel Hugill, chair of Lend Lease Europe and face of the company’s 2012 Olympic village project, has resigned.
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FeaturesSun, sea and salt extraction
A British inventor, architect and services engineer have devised a system that could produce food, fresh water and energy solely through the use of solar power.
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CommentA matter of some interest: Ruttle vs secretary of state for the environment
It can be difficult to judge when interest on money owed starts to run. But firms will get short shrift from the courts if they claim without having issued an invoice first
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CommentDivided we stand
I've never heard such a load of old rubbish as your story “Northerners should move south, says think tank” in my entire life.
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HCA names Taylor Wimpey’s Terry Fuller as regional director
Terry Fuller, Taylor Wimpey’s managing director of major projects, has been appointed director of the East of England at the planned Homes and Communities Agency.