All Building articles in 12 March 2010 – Page 5
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Comment
PFI and the Panama Canal
I read your article on the Tories’ plan to lift the lid on PFI deals (26 February, page 14) and I have to say I think they are getting this one wrong and should look at the history of PFI
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News
Calas losses improve
Scottish housebuilder Cala Homes this week reported a pre-tax loss of £33.9m on turnover of £168.9m for the year ending 30 June 2009
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Comment
Something might get broken
‘The rough and tumble of normal commercial bargaining” can, clearly, be used to extract a good deal from the other side. But if one party abuses this power, the other could argue later that the resulting contract is not binding. Such an argument is founded on the legal doctrine of ...
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News
Bovis Homes to buy land
David Ritchie, the chief executive of Bovis Homes, said the housebuilder would focus on buying land in 2010 in order to get more sites open.
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Comment
Wonders & Blunders with Dean Webster
The Cyril Sweett boss has a solar epiphany on a Middle Eastern tower but another in London casts a long shadow on a park
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News
Blackfriars station hit by four-month delay
The completion of Blackfriars station, one of the main projects on the upgrade of the Thameslink rail line, has been put back four months until spring 2012
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Features
No more repeats: Episode two of BBC Broadcasting House
With a very public dressing down still ringing in its ears, Britain’s most venerable broadcaster has a point to prove on phase two of the £1bn redevelopment of Broadcasting House
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News
Park your Tardis here: BBC's Cardiff Bay studio
Igloo Regeneration has lined up four contractors to bid for the construction of a £25m BBC studio in Wales
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News
Barratt told recession no defence for mothballing scheme
Barratt could be forced to pay £9.5m after losing a landmark lawsuit over a development it shelved during the downturn
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News
Chilling observation: Jodrell Bank Observatory
Plans have been submitted to build this visitor centre at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory
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News
Bam bags the February top spot with Somerset schools win
Business barometer Education continues to be construction’s lifeblood as workload picks up
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News
Legal & General backs away from private rental initiative
Insurer will not invest hundreds of millions in £5bn scheme after Treasury fails to guarantee returns
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Comment
Something quite atrocious
A party that thinks an adjudicator has no jurisdiction can save money and bother by simply waiting until the end before making a song and dance about it
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News
Court appeal: Hague headquarters
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has revealed the design for its new permanent headquarters
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News
Amec sues Thames Water for unpaid bill
Amec Group is suing Thames Water Utilities for £1.1m, after the water company refused to pay it for construction and maintenance work
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Comment
Full speed ahead?
The Infrastructure Planning Commission was set up to fast-track projects of national importance, but it remains to be seen how well it will work
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Comment
Ageing gracefully
Housebuilders need to make profit to have sustainable businesses and the resources to build homes (5 March, leader, page 3) but they risk casting themselves as the bad boys if they resist measures to address the needs of our rapidly ageing population
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Comment
Something to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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News
Guernsey pulls the plug on Vinci’s £80m waste power plant
Vinci has lost an £80m contract to build an energy-from-waste plant in Guernsey after the island’s council pulled the plug because of its high cost
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News
Dounreay projects worth £500m put on hold
Three decommissioning projects on ice as nuclear industry braces itself for Treasury review