All Building articles in 12 February 2010 – Page 3
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NewsMouchel confirms increased offer from VT
After putting its 260p bid for the consultant on ice, VT Group ups the offer to 294p per share
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NewsConstruction project starts down 8% on last year
Snow delays works on site with activity particularly weak in non-residential sector
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News64% of properties still flouting EPC rules
But survey revealed a rise in buildings with energy performance certificates from 25% to 36% between October and January
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NewsPoole council secures £10m loan for Twin Sales Bridge
£37m bridge across part of one of world's largest natural harbours has faced years of delay
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NewsTwo Cornwall firms cease trading
Darren Healey Building Contractors and Highgrove Homes (South West) had bad debt of £800,000
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NewsJarvis hires former Laing O'Rourke director
Phillips Price to become managing director of rail and plant divisions
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News£120m Manchester scheme gets green light
Glenn Howells' One St Peter's Square will be a 270,000ft2 mixed-use retail and leisure complex
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News£7m invested in fuel cell development
Technology Strategy Board to fund 15 demonstration projects for both transport and stationary applications
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NewsImages: British Grand Prix to hit new Silverstone circuit
Architect Populous says ‘super-fast’ circuit was designed to help racing fans get closer to the action
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NewsRedrow boss slams Tory localization plans
Steve Morgan claims scrapping regional planning targets is like 'putting mice in charge of the cheese cupboard'
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News‘It’s good to slow down’: Aldar at Al Raha Beach
Abu Dhabi developer Aldar is toning down the extravagance at Al Raha Beach, its 11km-long waterfront paradise. Patrick Bell, its head of pre-construction, tells Thomas Lane why that’s no bad thing
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FeaturesThe tracker: On the sunny side
Yes, the situation is still getting worse, but the rate of decline is slowing and non-residential is looking brighter for the first time in 21 months. Experian Business Strategies fills in the forecast
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Comment
Top security
I have read with interest the response in these pages to the fires at the Green Acre Homes’ Peckham and Camberwell building sites, and how many people seem to believe that the security issues surrounding these fires can be addressed with a generic solution
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CommentIn your own time
While Tory campaign managers, a finance director and a London mayor show up long past the hour appointed, a certain Nick Raynsford will just be glad to be invited back
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Comment
In the mix
Your coverage of our results on page 16 of last Friday’s issue, 5 February, was led by a most unfortunate sub-headline that stated that Countryside Properties “rues its exposure to mixed-tenure regeneration market”
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NewsMcLaren set to profit from slump
Kevin Taylor, chairman of McLaren Construction, has said the firm has an £18m war chest to buy struggling rivals
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Worker killed on site
A construction worker has been killed while working on a new spectator stand at the Hampshire Rose Bowl cricket ground on Monday
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CommentThe revenge of Judy Veakins
A company’s liability for harassment or bullying by one of its managers was brought to attention by a recent case. Tony Bingham sums up the facts …
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Mace wins new New Street job
Network Rail has expanded Mace’s role on the £600m revamp of Birmingham New Street station to include acting as principal contractor