All Building articles in 07 August 2009 – Page 4
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CommentProve your worth: Net worth test
Money matters Banks looking to safeguard funding have a new test for construction projects’ guarantors, but how will it affect contractors?
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As a matter of tax
As somebody who has spent 47 years in the industry, with every penny earned being subject to PAYE, I think we are missing a fundamental point in this debate (24 July, page 9)
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Mace takes over from Mott at Museum of Liverpool
Mace has been appointed by National Museums Liverpool to project manage the £72m Museum of Liverpool project as it nears conclusion, taking over from Mott MacDonald
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CommentTurning of the tide: Super litigation
Litigation is too often the meandering paddle steamer to adjudication’s inaccurate exocet. But a recent case shows courts can sometimes be both speedy and right
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Its a mystery
I was interested to read the letter from James Preston-Hood (July 24, page 29) regarding the plethora of safety assessment schemes
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CommentHansom: Sporting life
Some unusual sports are cropping up across the industry, including in-office thought tennis, architectural gymnastics, extreme biking and Olympic-level prevarication. Go team!
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Green light for Lovell
Developer Lovell has won planning consent for an £8.3m project in south London
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FeaturesRefurbishment funding: A long way from home
Assessing the once mighty £21bn Decent Homes programme’s past achievements, and its increasingly uncertain future
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Turner & Townsend floats four-day week to staff
Consultant T&T is considering asking its staff to work a four-day week if market conditions deteriorate, Building has learned
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Flaws in Murphys law
I welcome Jim Murphy’s proposals to create almost 3,000 jobs for young unemployed people across Scotland through the Future Jobs Forum – including in hard-hit sectors such as construction
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NewsSt Luke’s eco gospel
St Luke’s CE primary school in Wolverhampton this week claimed to become the first school to receive a BREEAM “excellent” rating
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Exaggerated defects
John Hughes D’Aeth (24 July, page 48) makes some valid claims about the value of latent defects insurance (LDI) but says it is no replacement for collateral warranties
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NewsUrban Splash eyes deal for rental portfolio
Tom Bloxham has said Urban Splash could join forces with an institutional fund to secure investment in its residential rental portfolio
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NewsHousebuilders could be spared zero-carbon costs
UK-GBC proposal would see government-funded improvements repaid monthly by homeowners
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Should you fess up?: Corruption
The Serious Fraud Office’s efforts to encourage self-reporting of corruption has created quite a dilemma for the construction sector
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Let control take control
Your leader column (24 July, page 3) illustrates both the increasing complexity of trying to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and the growing potential role for building control in ensuring that this is done
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‘Farcical’ leisure design contest down to two firms
Feilden Clegg Bradley and Wilkinson Eyre are the last two architects competing to design a landmark leisure centre in West Suusex that had its budget slashed by £7m at the last minute