All Building articles in 12 December 2008 – Page 5
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NewsGlobal housing woes set to worsen
RICS data shows housebuilding industry suffering internationally
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NewsImages: Olympic velodrome starts to take shape
With 19 swimming pools' worth of earth excavated, the piling is about to go in
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NewsCannon Street scheme: Watermark of quality
Unusual timber scheme provides 'sun-dappled facade' in the heart of the City
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NewsThe importance of Gen Y in the workplace
Have 18 to 30s been stereotyped as a bunch of cash greedy job hoppers or have they been given an easy ride?
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NewsRisky business?
Cluttons' new partner on his first week on the job and reasons to be cheerful despite the recession
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NewsTravis Perkins reports trading on track
Materials firm says results will be in line with recent forecasts
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NewsSouth African group buys stake in WSP division
Black economic empowerment consortium Intsaki acquires 26% of WSP Africa
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NewsFixing a hole
Mark Shilling of Nalco Mobotec, who sent in this picture by Brian Higgins, expressed concern that the loose tiles on this Beijing building may fall onto pedestrians below.
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Is it worth it?
How common are the problems that the reform of the Construction Act addresses? Some are common, others not so.
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NewsWhole-house ventilation
Dutch firm Itho has entered the UK ventilation market where it is offering its whole house mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system
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CommentThe path to power
With most markets sectors descending vertically, work on a third generation of nuclear power plants can’t begin soon enough.
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Pidgley speaks out
Tony Pidgley, chief executive of Berkeley Homes, described the housing market as “the most challenging for over 30 years” after a 12% fall in profit to £79.6m in the first half of 2008.
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Comment
No to nuclear
There is much to be welcomed in the new report from the Committee on Climate Change about how to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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Comment
A message for the RICS
Peter Kilby’s article mourning the death of the BoQ came as a surprise: I had no idea they were no longer seen to be a necessary part of the tendering process.
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NewsStar-shaped lighting
Modular Lighting Instruments has launched the Izar, a rounded, three-pointed star-shaped light that can be used singularly or in combination as a fixed or suspended fitting.
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NewsThat’ll learn them
Kent council has given Jestico + Whiles’ £22m New Line Learning Academy in Maidstone the green light.
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NewsThis land is your land
Land Securities has agreed to make land temporarily available for a tube station refurbishment on its Victoria Transport Interchange site.
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Norris’ Jarvis stake
Jarvis chairman Steven Norris has bought 200,000 shares in the rail contractor at a total cost of £21,640.
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CommentIt’s just too sad to be single: Single-stage tendering
Why would any client want to revert to the old method of single-stage tendering when life with two-stage tendering is so much clearer, simpler and cheaper?
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ISG’s public work
ISG has said it will move away from the office market in London and towards the public sector in its regional contracting businesses.