All Building articles in 14 August 2009 – Page 3
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Justice department seeks £1bn facilities management framework
Work includes health and safety management, M&E maintenance and environmental management
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Seaside breaks: Blackpool
As part of our summer tour of UK resorts, we look at Blackpool's attempts to bounce back after missing out on that supercasino
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Laing O'Rourke turnover hits £4bn
Profit also up at private contractor despite £17.1m writedown on residential and mixed-use developments
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Passivhaus diaries, part eight: The wall openings
Windows and doors are a bit of a bind, repines our blogger – insulation would so much more effective without them!
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A Spanish safety holiday
These guys repairing a villa in Spain take a relaxed approach to their make-shift scaffolding
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Profit down by two-thirds at Kingspan
Irish construction products group posts 66% fall in half-year operating profit
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Balfour Beatty JV nails £252m Texas roads deal
Joint venture with Fluor is picked for design-build highway scheme near Dallas
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Bovis Homes posts loss but reservations leap
First-half results show £8.6m loss for housebuilder but private reservations rise 92%
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Unemployment rises sharply in seaside towns
Cuts in public spending would deepen recession in traditional seaside resorts says TUC
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Seaside breaks: Margate
As part of our short summer series on seaside regeneration, we look at why down-at-heel Margate now has a spring in its step
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Signs of life for housing?
Economist Noble Francis sees glimmers of an upturn but remains cautious
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Tender of the day: £8m Gwent offices
Extension, refurbishment and repair job starts in October 2009
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City workers cheat death from falling glass
Investigation is in progress after pane of glass plummets 17 storeys from Old Broad Street office block
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Lend Lease posts £329m loss after writedowns
Australian group is hit by £419m of writedowns while net operating profit falls 29% to £155m
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Dubai metro blows its budget
Spending increase of billions of dirhams blamed on changing design
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SIG to shut six factories
300 job losses will contribute to 2,500 redundancies to be made in £47m restructure of building materials supplier
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T Clarke profits plunge 44%
Half year revenue falls 12% in 'tough' six months for electrical contractor
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Housing Design Awards winner: South Gate, Totnes
Architect Harris Sutton won the overall award after local residents campaigned to get original plans for the site scrapped
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Housing starts up 63%
Figure is still 9% lower than same time last year and 39% below 2006 peak
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Tender of the day: £50m warehouse
New-build, extension, refurbishment, repair and demolition job for Morrisons supermarkets starts in October 2009