All Building articles in 11 July 2008 – Page 8
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Boris ditches Ken’s 50% affordable target
Boris Johnson is formally to drop Ken Livingstone’s 50% affordable housing target as part of an end-to-end review of the London Plan, to begin this week.
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Green refurb rules could be worth £6.5bn to industry
FMB says legislation to improve energy efficiency of existing houses could be worth ‘billions a year’
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Styles & Wood cuts 45 jobs and restructures board
New boss believes redundancies and bolstered management board will ‘keep business healthy’
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Here's an idea: No 4
Mace took the opportunity to do a spot of recycling during its recent global rebrand.
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Pidgley defends £31m bonus
Tony Pidgley, Berkeley Group’s chief executive, has defended his decision to award himself a £31m bonus amid one of the housebuilding sector’s worst fortnights in recent years.
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Global construction inflation hits 30%
EC Harris reports strong cost rise in eastern Europe over the past year
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Comment
Working 25/7
So … Mouzhan Majidi at Fosters brags (4 July, page 64) that their team worked 24 hours a day..
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Features
Lead times May-July 2008
Four packages have gone down this week and four have gone up, as the downturn pushes from one end and the steel shortage from the other. Brian Moone of Mace reports the numbers
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Planning applications: June 2008
Applications have risen by some 180 projects in London and the South-east over the past month
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Killby & Gayford sharpens act after £15m buyout
SME profile Heritage construction company aims for £88m turnover in 2008
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Chase Norton forced to sack 107 after financial troubles
Chase Norton Construction has made 107 of its 123 staff redundant after falling into administration last week.
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Taylor Wimpey seeks private equity rescue as sector’s job losses pass 6,000
Housebuilder in plans to sell one-third of company. Net reservations fall below zero. Persimmon, Bovis and Redrow reveal scale of redundancies
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2012 legacy accounts for 75% of ODA spending
Olympic Delivery Authority chairman John Armitt says 75p in every pound is being put towards regeneration of East London
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The double squeeze – What the downturn means for contractors
One of the pernicious effects of this downturn for contractors is that falling demand is not leading to falling prices; quite the reverse. Emily Wright looks at why – and what’s going to happen next
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Housing Corporation promotes free low-energy light bulb offer
Corporation writes to housing associations to encourage participation in scheme giving away free bulbs to tenants
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Selected councils to offer one-stop housing advice
Minister names first wave of 12 local authorities to receive £350,000 to develop an integrated housing advice service
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Councils demand right to reinvest rents in local housing
Local Government Association argues councils could help beat housing crisis if allowed to keep rental income to spend on new local homes
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Eco-town developers bring in agency to bolster its green credentials
A high profile group of protestors threatens to scupper plans for a proposed eco-town near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. But the developers are fighting back